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- explanation: Sue Black - British computer scientist and campaigner. She has been instrumental in saving Bletchley Park, the site of World War II codebreaking -
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_Black_(computer_scientist)
surname: black
- explanation: Elizabeth Helen Blackburn - Australian-American Nobel laureate; best known for co-discovering telomerase.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Blackburn
surname: blackburn
- explanation: Elizabeth Blackwell - American doctor and first American woman to receive a medical degree -
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Blackwell
surname: blackwell
- explanation: Niels Bohr is the father of quantum theory.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Bohr.
surname: bohr
- explanation: Kathleen Booth, she's credited with writing the first assembly language.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Booth
surname: booth
- explanation: Anita Borg - Anita Borg was the founding director of the Institute for Women and Technology (IWT).
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Borg
surname: borg
- explanation: Satyendra Nath Bose - He provided the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate. -
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyendra_Nath_Bose
surname: bose
- explanation: Katherine Louise Bouman is an imaging scientist and Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the California Institute of Technology. She researches computational methods for imaging, and developed an algorithm that made possible the ...
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_Bouman
surname: bouman
- explanation: Evelyn Boyd Granville - She was one of the first African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics; she earned it in 1949 from Yale University.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Boyd_Granville
surname: boyd
- explanation: Brahmagupta - Ancient Indian mathematician during 598-670 CE who gave rules to compute with zero -
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmagupta#Zero
surname: brahmagupta
- explanation: Walter Houser Brattain co-invented the transistor -
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Houser_Brattain
surname: brattain
- explanation: Emmett Brown invented time travel.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Brown (thanks Brian Goff)
surname: brown
- explanation: Linda Brown Buck - American biologist and Nobel laureate best known for her genetic and molecular analyses of the mechanisms of smell.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_B._Buck
surname: buck
- explanation: Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell - Northern Irish astrophysicist who discovered radio pulsars and was the first to analyse them.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Bell_Burnell
surname: burnell
- explanation: Annie Jump Cannon - pioneering female astronomer who classified hundreds of thousands of stars and created the system we use to understand stars today.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Jump_Cannon
surname: cannon
- explanation: Rachel Carson - American marine biologist and conservationist, her book Silent Spring and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Carson
surname: carson
- explanation: Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright - British mathematician who was one of the first to study what is now known as chaos theory. Also known for Cartwright's theorem which finds applications in signal processing.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Cartwright
surname: cartwright
- explanation: George Washington Carver - American agricultural scientist and inventor. He was the most prominent black scientist of the early 20th century.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Carver
surname: carver
- explanation: Vinton Gray Cerf - American Internet pioneer, recognised as one of "the fathers of the Internet". With Robert Elliot Kahn, he designed TCP and IP, the primary data communication protocols of the Internet and other computer networks.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vint_Cerf
surname: cerf
- explanation: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar - Astrophysicist known for his mathematical theory on different stages and evolution in structures of the stars. He has won nobel prize for physics -
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subrahmanyan_Chandrasekhar
surname: chandrasekhar
- explanation: 'Sergey Alexeyevich Chaplygin (Russian: СергеÌй ÐлекÑеÌевич ЧаплыÌгин; April 5, 1869 – October 8, 1942) was a Russian and Soviet physicist, mathematician, and mechanical engineer. He is known for mathematic...
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Chaplygin
surname: chaplygin
- explanation: Émilie du Châtelet - French natural philosopher, mathematician, physicist, and author during the early 1730s, known for her translation of and commentary on Isaac Newton's book Principia containing basic laws of physics.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89milie_du_Ch%C3%A2telet
surname: chatelet
- explanation: Asima Chatterjee was an Indian organic chemist noted for her research on vinca alkaloids, development of drugs for treatment of epilepsy and malaria -
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asima_Chatterjee
surname: chatterjee
- explanation: Pafnuty Chebyshev - Russian mathematician. He is known fo his works on probability, statistics, mechanics, analytical geometry and number theory
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pafnuty_Chebyshev
surname: chebyshev
- explanation: Bram Cohen - American computer programmer and author of the BitTorrent peer-to-peer protocol.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Cohen
surname: cohen
- explanation: David Lee Chaum - American computer scientist and cryptographer. Known for his seminal contributions in the field of anonymous communication.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Chaum
surname: chaum
- explanation: Joan Clarke - Bletchley Park code breaker during the Second World War who pioneered techniques that remained top secret for decades. Also an accomplished numismatist
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Clarke
surname: clarke
- explanation: Jane Colden - American botanist widely considered the first female American botanist -
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Colden
surname: colden
- explanation: Gerty Theresa Cori - American biochemist who became the third woman—and first American woman—to win a Nobel Prize in science, and the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Cori was born in Prague.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerty_Cori
surname: cori
- explanation: Seymour Roger Cray was an American electrical engineer and supercomputer architect who designed a series of computers that were the fastest in the world for decades.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Cray
surname: cray
- explanation: 'This entry reflects a husband and wife team who worked together:'
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Curran
surname: curran
- explanation: Marie Curie discovered radioactivity.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie.
surname: curie
- explanation: Charles Darwin established the principles of natural evolution.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin.
surname: darwin
- explanation: Leonardo Da Vinci invented too many things to list here.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci.
surname: davinci
- explanation: A. K. (Alexander Keewatin) Dewdney, Canadian mathematician, computer scientist, author and filmmaker. Contributor to Scientific American's "Computer Recreations" from 1984 to 1991. Author of Core War (program), The Planiverse, The Armc...
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Dewdney
surname: dewdney
- explanation: Satish Dhawan - Indian mathematician and aerospace engineer, known for leading the successful and indigenous development of the Indian space programme.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satish_Dhawan
surname: dhawan
- explanation: Bailey Whitfield Diffie - American cryptographer and one of the pioneers of public-key cryptography.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitfield_Diffie
surname: diffie
- explanation: Edsger Wybe Dijkstra was a Dutch computer scientist and mathematical scientist.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsger_W._Dijkstra.
surname: dijkstra
- explanation: Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac - English theoretical physicist who made fundamental contributions to the early development of both quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Dirac
surname: dirac
- explanation: Agnes Meyer Driscoll - American cryptanalyst during World Wars I and II who successfully cryptanalysed a number of Japanese ciphers. She was also the co-developer of one of the cipher machines of the US Navy, the CM.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Meyer_Driscoll
surname: driscoll
- explanation: Donna Dubinsky - played an integral role in the development of personal digital assistants (PDAs) serving as CEO of Palm, Inc. and co-founding Handspring.
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- explanation: Har Gobind Khorana - Indian-American biochemist who shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology -
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Har_Gobind_Khorana
surname: khorana
- explanation: Jack Kilby invented silicone integrated circuits and gave Silicon Valley its name. -
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kilby
surname: kilby
- explanation: Maria Kirch - German astronomer and first woman to discover a comet -
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Margarethe_Kirch
surname: kirch
- explanation: Donald Knuth - American computer scientist, author of "The Art of Computer Programming" and creator of the TeX typesetting system.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth
surname: knuth
- explanation: Sophie Kowalevski - Russian mathematician responsible for important original contributions to analysis, differential equations and mechanics -
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofia_Kovalevskaya
surname: kowalevski
- explanation: Marie-Jeanne de Lalande - French astronomer, mathematician and cataloguer of stars -
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Jeanne_de_Lalande
surname: lalande
- explanation: Hedy Lamarr - Actress and inventor. The principles of her work are now incorporated into modern Wi-Fi, CDMA and Bluetooth technology.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr
surname: lamarr
- explanation: Leslie B. Lamport - American computer scientist. Lamport is best known for his seminal work in distributed systems and was the winner of the 2013 Turing Award.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Lamport
surname: lamport
- explanation: Mary Leakey - British paleoanthropologist who discovered the first fossilized Proconsul skull -
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Leakey
surname: leakey
- explanation: Henrietta Swan Leavitt - she was an American astronomer who discovered the relation between the luminosity and the period of Cepheid variable stars.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Swan_Leavitt
surname: leavitt
- explanation: Esther Miriam Zimmer Lederberg - American microbiologist and a pioneer of bacterial genetics.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Lederberg
surname: lederberg
- explanation: Inge Lehmann - Danish seismologist and geophysicist. Known for discovering in 1936 that the Earth has a solid inner core inside a molten outer core.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inge_Lehmann
surname: lehmann
- explanation: Daniel Lewin - Mathematician, Akamai co-founder, soldier, 9/11 victim-- Developed optimization techniques for routing traffic on the internet. Died attempting to stop the 9-11 hijackers.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Lewin
surname: lewin
- explanation: Ruth Lichterman - one of the original programmers of the ENIAC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC -
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Teitelbaum
surname: lichterman
- explanation: Barbara Liskov - co-developed the Liskov substitution principle. Liskov was also the winner of the Turing Prize in 2008. -
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Liskov
surname: liskov
- explanation: Ada Lovelace invented the first algorithm.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace (thanks James Turnbull)
surname: lovelace
- explanation: Auguste and Louis Lumière - the first filmmakers in history -
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_and_Louis_Lumi%C3%A8re
surname: lumiere
- explanation: Mahavira - Ancient Indian mathematician during 9th century AD who discovered basic algebraic identities -
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mah%C4%81v%C4%ABra_(mathematician)
surname: mahavira
- explanation: Lynn Margulis (b. Lynn Petra Alexander) - an American evolutionary theorist and biologist, science author, educator, and popularizer, and was the primary modern proponent for the significance of symbiosis in evolution. -
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Margulis
surname: margulis
- explanation: Yukihiro Matsumoto - Japanese computer scientist and software programmer best known as the chief designer of the Ruby programming language.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukihiro_Matsumoto
surname: matsumoto
- explanation: James Clerk Maxwell - Scottish physicist, best known for his formulation of electromagnetic theory.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell
surname: maxwell
- explanation: Maria Mayer - American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for proposing the nuclear shell model of the atomic nucleus -
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Mayer
surname: mayer
- explanation: 'John McCarthy invented LISP:'
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCarthy_(computer_scientist)
surname: mccarthy
- explanation: Barbara McClintock - a distinguished American cytogeneticist, 1983 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine for discovering transposons.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_McClintock
surname: mcclintock
- explanation: Anne Laura Dorinthea McLaren - British developmental biologist whose work helped lead to human in-vitro fertilisation.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_McLaren
surname: mclaren
- explanation: 'Malcolm McLean invented the modern shipping container:'
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcom_McLean
surname: mclean
- explanation: Kay McNulty - one of the original programmers of the ENIAC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC -
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Antonelli
surname: mcnulty
- explanation: Gregor Johann Mendel - Czech scientist and founder of genetics.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregor_Mendel
surname: mendel
- explanation: Dmitri Mendeleev - a chemist and inventor. He formulated the Periodic Law, created a farsighted version of the periodic table of elements, and used it to correct the properties of some already discovered elements and also to predict th...
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Mendeleev
surname: mendeleev
- explanation: Lise Meitner - Austrian/Swedish physicist who was involved in the discovery of nuclear fission. The element meitnerium is named after her -
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lise_Meitner
surname: meitner
- explanation: Carla Meninsky, was the game designer and programmer for Atari 2600 games Dodge 'Em and Warlords.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carla_Meninsky
surname: meninsky
- explanation: Ralph C. Merkle - American computer scientist, known for devising Merkle's puzzles - one of the very first schemes for public-key cryptography. Also, inventor of Merkle trees and co-inventor of the Merkle-Damgård construction for buil...
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Merkle
surname: merkle
- explanation: Johanna Mestorf - German prehistoric archaeologist and first female museum director in Germany -
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johanna_Mestorf
surname: mestorf
- explanation: Maryam Mirzakhani - an Iranian mathematician and the first woman to win the Fields Medal.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryam_Mirzakhani
surname: mirzakhani
- explanation: Gordon Earle Moore - American engineer, Silicon Valley founding father, author of Moore's law.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Moore
surname: moore
- explanation: Samuel Morse - contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs and was a co-developer of the Morse code -
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Morse
surname: morse
- explanation: Ian Murdock - founder of the Debian project -
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Murdock
surname: murdock
- explanation: May-Britt Moser - Nobel prize winner neuroscientist who contributed to the discovery of grid cells in the brain.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May-Britt_Moser
surname: moser
- explanation: John Napier of Merchiston - Scottish landowner known as an astronomer, mathematician and physicist. Best known for his discovery of logarithms.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Napier
surname: napier
- explanation: John Forbes Nash, Jr. - American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to game theory, differential geometry, and the study of partial differential equations.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes_Nash_Jr.
surname: nash
- explanation: John von Neumann - todays computer architectures are based on the von Neumann architecture.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_architecture
surname: neumann
- explanation: Isaac Newton invented classic mechanics and modern optics.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton
surname: newton
- explanation: Florence Nightingale, more prominently known as a nurse, was also the first female member of the Royal Statistical Society and a pioneer in statistical graphics
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Nightingale#Statistics_and_sanitary_reform
surname: nightingale
- explanation: Alfred Nobel - a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer (inventor of dynamite) -
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Nobel
surname: nobel
- explanation: Emmy Noether, German mathematician. Noether's Theorem is named after her.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Noether
surname: noether
- explanation: Poppy Northcutt. Poppy Northcutt was the first woman to work as part of NASA’s Mission Control.
link: http://www.businessinsider.com/poppy-northcutt-helped-apollo-astronauts-2014-12?op=1
surname: northcutt
- explanation: Robert Noyce invented silicone integrated circuits and gave Silicon Valley its name. -
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Noyce
surname: noyce
- explanation: Panini - Ancient Indian linguist and grammarian from 4th century CE who worked on the world's first formal system -
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%81%E1%B9%87ini#Comparison_with_modern_formal_systems
surname: panini
- explanation: Ambroise Pare invented modern surgery.
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- explanation: Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, and inventor -
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise_Pascal
surname: pascal
- explanation: Louis Pasteur discovered vaccination, fermentation and pasteurization.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur.
surname: pasteur
- explanation: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was an astronomer and astrophysicist who, in 1925, proposed in her Ph.D. thesis an explanation for the composition of stars in terms of the relative abundances of hydrogen and helium.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilia_Payne-Gaposchkin
surname: payne
- explanation: Radia Perlman is a software designer and network engineer and most famous for her invention of the spanning-tree protocol (STP).
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radia_Perlman
surname: perlman
- explanation: Rob Pike was a key contributor to Unix, Plan 9, the X graphic system, utf-8, and the Go programming language.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Pike
surname: pike
- explanation: Henri Poincaré made fundamental contributions in several fields of mathematics.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Poincar%C3%A9
surname: poincare
- explanation: Laura Poitras is a director and producer whose work, made possible by open source crypto tools, advances the causes of truth and freedom of information by reporting disclosures by whistleblowers such as Edward Snowden.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Poitras
surname: poitras
- explanation: 'Tat’yana Avenirovna Proskuriakova (Russian: ТатьÑÌна ÐвениÌровна ПроÑкурÑкоÌва) (January 23 [O.S. January 10] 1909 – August 30, 1985) was a Russian-American Mayanist scholar and archaeologist who co...
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatiana_Proskouriakoff
surname: proskuriakova
- explanation: Claudius Ptolemy - a Greco-Egyptian writer of Alexandria, known as a mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet of a single epigram in the Greek Anthology -
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy
surname: ptolemy
- explanation: C. V. Raman - Indian physicist who won the Nobel Prize in 1930 for proposing the Raman effect. -
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._V._Raman
surname: raman
- explanation: Srinivasa Ramanujan - Indian mathematician and autodidact who made extraordinary contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions. -
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan
surname: ramanujan
- explanation: Sally Kristen Ride was an American physicist and astronaut. She was the first American woman in space, and the youngest American astronaut.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Ride
surname: ride
- explanation: Rita Levi-Montalcini - Won Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with colleague Stanley Cohen for the discovery of nerve growth factor (
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Levi-Montalcini)
surname: montalcini
- explanation: Dennis Ritchie - co-creator of UNIX and the C programming language. -
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie
surname: ritchie
- explanation: Ida Rhodes - American pioneer in computer programming, designed the first computer used for Social Security.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Rhodes
surname: rhodes
- explanation: Julia Hall Bowman Robinson - American mathematician renowned for her contributions to the fields of computability theory and computational complexity theory.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Robinson
surname: robinson
- explanation: Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen - German physicist who was awarded the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901 for the discovery of X-rays (Röntgen rays).
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_R%C3%B6ntgen
surname: roentgen
- explanation: Rosalind Franklin - British biophysicist and X-ray crystallographer whose research was critical to the understanding of DNA -
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_Franklin
surname: rosalind
- explanation: Vera Rubin - American astronomer who pioneered work on galaxy rotation rates.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Rubin
surname: rubin
- explanation: Meghnad Saha - Indian astrophysicist best known for his development of the Saha equation, used to describe chemical and physical conditions in stars -
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meghnad_Saha
surname: saha
- explanation: Jean E. Sammet developed FORMAC, the first widely used computer language for symbolic manipulation of mathematical formulas.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_E._Sammet
surname: sammet
- explanation: Mildred Sanderson - American mathematician best known for Sanderson's theorem concerning modular invariants.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mildred_Sanderson
surname: sanderson
- explanation: Satoshi Nakamoto is the name used by the unknown person or group of people who developed bitcoin, authored the bitcoin white paper, and created and deployed bitcoin's original reference implementation.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Nakamoto
surname: satoshi
- explanation: Adi Shamir - Israeli cryptographer whose numerous inventions and contributions to cryptography include the Ferge Fiat Shamir identification scheme, the Rivest Shamir Adleman (RSA) public-key cryptosystem, the Shamir's secret sharing sc...
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adi_Shamir
surname: shamir
- explanation: Claude Shannon - The father of information theory and founder of digital circuit design theory. (
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon)
surname: shannon
- explanation: Carol Shaw - Originally an Atari employee, Carol Shaw is said to be the first female video game designer.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Shaw_(video_game_designer)
surname: shaw
- explanation: Dame Stephanie "Steve" Shirley - Founded a software company in 1962 employing women working from home.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Shirley
surname: shirley
- explanation: William Shockley co-invented the transistor -
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shockley
surname: shockley
- explanation: 'Lina Solomonovna Stern (or Shtern; Russian: Лина Соломоновна Штерн; 26 August 1878 – 7 March 1968) was a Soviet biochemist, physiologist and humanist whose medical discoveries saved thousands of lives at the fron...
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lina_Stern
surname: shtern
- explanation: Françoise Barré-Sinoussi - French virologist and Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology or Medicine; her work was fundamental in identifying HIV as the cause of AIDS.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7oise_Barr%C3%A9-Sinoussi
surname: sinoussi
- explanation: Betty Snyder - one of the original programmers of the ENIAC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC -
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Holberton
surname: snyder
- explanation: Cynthia Solomon - Pioneer in the fields of artificial intelligence, computer science and educational computing. Known for creation of Logo, an educational programming language.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia_Solomon
surname: solomon
- explanation: Frances Spence - one of the original programmers of the ENIAC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC -
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Spence
surname: spence
- explanation: Michael Stonebraker is a database research pioneer and architect of Ingres, Postgres, VoltDB and SciDB. Winner of 2014 ACM Turing Award.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Stonebraker
surname: stonebraker
- explanation: Ivan Edward Sutherland - American computer scientist and Internet pioneer, widely regarded as the father of computer graphics.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Sutherland
surname: sutherland
- explanation: Janese Swanson (with others) developed the first of the Carmen Sandiego games. She went on to found Girl Tech.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janese_Swanson
surname: swanson
- explanation: Aaron Swartz was influential in creating RSS, Markdown, Creative Commons, Reddit, and much of the internet as we know it today. He was devoted to freedom of information on the web.
link: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
surname: swartz
- explanation: Bertha Swirles was a theoretical physicist who made a number of contributions to early quantum theory.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_Swirles
surname: swirles
- explanation: Helen Brooke Taussig - American cardiologist and founder of the field of paediatric cardiology.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_B._Taussig
surname: taussig
- explanation: Valentina Tereshkova is a Russian engineer, cosmonaut and politician. She was the first woman to fly to space in 1963. In 2013, at the age of 76, she offered to go on a one-way mission to Mars.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentina_Tereshkova
surname: tereshkova
- explanation: Nikola Tesla invented the AC electric system and every gadget ever used by a James Bond villain.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla
surname: tesla
- explanation: Marie Tharp - American geologist and oceanic cartographer who co-created the first scientific map of the Atlantic Ocean floor. Her work led to the acceptance of the theories of plate tectonics and continental drift.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Tharp
surname: tharp
- explanation: Ken Thompson - co-creator of UNIX and the C programming language -
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Thompson
surname: thompson
- explanation: Linus Torvalds invented Linux and Git.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds
surname: torvalds
- explanation: Youyou Tu - Chinese pharmaceutical chemist and educator known for discovering artemisinin and dihydroartemisinin, used to treat malaria, which has saved millions of lives. Joint winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_Youyou
surname: tu
- explanation: Alan Turing was a founding father of computer science.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing.
surname: turing
- explanation: Varahamihira - Ancient Indian mathematician who discovered trigonometric formulae during 505-587 CE -
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Var%C4%81hamihira#Contributions
surname: varahamihira
- explanation: Dorothy Vaughan was a NASA mathematician and computer programmer on the SCOUT launch vehicle program that put America's first satellites into space -
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Vaughan
surname: vaughan
- explanation: Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya - is a notable Indian engineer. He is a recipient of the Indian Republic's highest honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1955. On his birthday, 15 September is celebrated as Engineer's Day in India in his memory -
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visvesvaraya
surname: visvesvaraya
- explanation: Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard - German biologist, won Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1995 for research on the genetic control of embryonic development.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiane_N%C3%BCsslein-Volhard
surname: volhard
- explanation: Cédric Villani - French mathematician, won Fields Medal, Fermat Prize and Poincaré Price for his work in differential geometry and statistical mechanics.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9dric_Villani
surname: villani
- explanation: Marlyn Wescoff - one of the original programmers of the ENIAC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC -
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlyn_Meltzer
surname: wescoff
- explanation: Sylvia B. Wilbur - British computer scientist who helped develop the ARPANET, was one of the first to exchange email in the UK and a leading researcher in computer-supported collaborative work.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Wilbur
surname: wilbur
- explanation: Andrew Wiles - Notable British mathematician who proved the enigmatic Fermat's Last Theorem -
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wiles
surname: wiles
- explanation: Roberta Williams, did pioneering work in graphical adventure games for personal computers, particularly the King's Quest series.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberta_Williams
surname: williams
- explanation: Malcolm John Williamson - British mathematician and cryptographer employed by the GCHQ. Developed in 1974 what is now known as Diffie-Hellman key exchange (Diffie and Hellman first published the scheme in 1976).
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_J._Williamson
surname: williamson
- explanation: Sophie Wilson designed the first Acorn Micro-Computer and the instruction set for ARM processors.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Wilson
surname: wilson
- explanation: Jeannette Wing - co-developed the Liskov substitution principle. -
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeannette_Wing
surname: wing
- explanation: Steve Wozniak invented the Apple I and Apple II.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Wozniak
surname: wozniak
- explanation: The Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur - credited with inventing and building the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight -
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brothers
surname: wright
- explanation: Chien-Shiung Wu - Chinese-American experimental physicist who made significant contributions to nuclear physics.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chien-Shiung_Wu
surname: wu
- explanation: Rosalyn Sussman Yalow - Rosalyn Sussman Yalow was an American medical physicist, and a co-winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for development of the radioimmunoassay technique.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalyn_Sussman_Yalow
surname: yalow
- explanation: Ada Yonath - an Israeli crystallographer, the first woman from the Middle East to win a Nobel prize in the sciences.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Yonath
surname: yonath
- explanation: 'Nikolay Yegorovich Zhukovsky (Russian: ÐиколаÌй ЕгоÌрович ЖукоÌвÑкий, January 17 1847 – March 17, 1921) was a Russian scientist, mathematician and engineer, and a founding father of modern aero- and hydrod...
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolay_Yegorovich_Zhukovsky
surname: zhukovsky
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