Marion Sewer (1972-2016) was a pharmacologist and Professor at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD)’s Skaggs School of Pharmacy […]

Herta Ayrton Hertha Ayrton was the first woman proposed as a Fellow of the Royal Society – I say “proposed […]

Elisa Izaurralde Elisa Izaurralde (1959 – 2018). For the second week in a row, our #WiSEWednesday profile honors the life […]

Susan Williams This #WiSEWednesday we honor Susan Williams, an amazing marine ecologist and environmental activist whose life was tragically cut […]

Youyou Tu Youyou Tu received the 2015 Nobel Award in Medicine “for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria” […]

Louise Slaughter If you heard about last month’s death of Louise Slaughter, it was probably in relation to her position […]

Katharine Burr Blodgett   Katharine Burr Blodgett (1898-1979) invented “invisible” glass, which GE loved to tout, but they didn’t bother […]

Ruth Sager (1918-1997) pioneered the now-thriving field of “cytoplasmic genetics” but it took decades before her theories were accepted. Sager […]

Louise Chow You might have heard about the molecular imaging technique cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) because of the 2017 Nobel Prize […]

Martha Chase If you hear “Hershey” and think “Chase,” not “chocolate,” you might be a scientist. My hope is that, […]