Lise Meitner - Lise Meitner (November 17, 1878 – October 27, 1968) was an Austrian/Swedish physicist who studied radioactivity and nuclear physics. She was part of the team that discovered nuclear fission, for which Otto Hahn received a Nobel Prize.
Maud Menten
Marie Meurdrac
Helen Vaughn Michel
Amalie Emmy Noether - (born in Germany, 1882-1935) Emmy Noether was a mathematician, not a chemist, but her mathematical description of the conservations laws for energy, angular momentum, and linear momentum has been invaluable in spectroscopy and other branches of chemistry. She is responsible for Noether's theorem in theoretical physics, the Lasker–Noether theorem in commutative algebra, the concept of Noetherian rings, and was co-founder of the theory of central simple algebras.
Ida Tacke Noddack
Mary Engle Pennington
Elsa Reichmanis
Ellen Swallow Richards
Jane S. Richardson - (USA, born 1941) Jane Richardson, a biochemistry professor at Duke University, is best-known for her hand-drawn and computer-generated portaits of proteins. The graphics help scientists understand how proteins are made and how they function.
Janet Rideout
Margaret Hutchinson Rousseau
Florence Seibert
Melissa Sherman
Maxine Singer - (USA, born 1931) Maxine Singer specializes in recombinant DNA technology. She studies how disease-causing genes 'jump' within DNA. She helped formulate the NIH's ethical guidelines for genetic engineering.
Barbara Sitzman
Susan Solomon
Kathleen Taylor
Susan S. Taylor
Martha Jane Bergin Thomas
Margaret E. M. Tolbert
Rosalyn Yalow
Chen Zhao - (born 1956) M. Katharine Holloway and Chen Zhao are two of the chemists who developed protease inhibitors to inactivate the HIV virus, greatly extending the lives of AIDS patients.
