page_title: List of female scientists in the 20th century
section_title: Chemistry
hierarchical_section_title: List of female scientists in the 20th century / Chemistry
caption_attribution_description: Alicia Augusta Ball
context_page_description: This is a historical list dealing with women scientists in the 20th century. During this time period, women working in scientific fields were rare. Women at this time faced barriers in higher education and often denied access to scientific institutions; in the Western world, the first-wave feminist movement began to break down many of these barriers.
context_section_description: Maria Abbracchio (1956-) Italian pharmacologist who works with purinergic receptors and identified GPR17. On Reuter's most cited list since 2006.
  Marian Ewurama Addy (1942-2014) Ghanaian biochemist, specializing in herbal medicine; first woman in Ghana to attain the rank of full professor in the natural sciences; winner of the UNESCO Kalinga Prize in 1999
  Barbara Askins (1939-), American chemist
  Alice Ball (1892–1916), American chemist
  Ulrike Beisiegel (1952-), German biochemist, researcher of liver fats and first female president of the University of Göttingen
  Anne Beloff-Chain (1921–1991), British biochemist
  Jeannette Brown (born 1934), medicinal chemist, writer, educator
  Astrid Cleve (1875–1968), Swedish chemist
  Seetha Coleman-Kammula (1950-) Indian chemist and plastics designer, turned environmentalist
  Maria Skłodowska-Curie (1867–1934), Polish-French chemist (pioneer in radiology, discovery of polonium and radium), Nobel prize in physics 1903 and Nobel prize in chemistry 1911
  Mary Campbell Dawbarn (1902–1982), Australian biochemist
  Moira Lenore Dynon (1920–1976), Australian chemist
  Gertrude B. Elion (1918–1999), American biochemist (Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine 1988 for drug development)
  Claire E. Eyers (fl. 2004), British mass spectrometist
  Gwendolyn Wilson Fowler (1907–1997), American chemist and first licensed African American pharmacist in Iowa
  Rosalind Franklin (1920–1957), British physical chemist and crystallographer
  Ellen Gleditsch (1879–1968), Norwegian radiochemist
  Jenny Glusker (born 1931), British biochemist, educator
  Emīlija Gudriniece (1920–2004), Latvian chemist and academic
  Anna J. Harrison (1912–1998), American organic chemist
  Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910–1994), British crystallographer, Nobel prize in chemistry 1964
  Clara Immerwahr (1870–1915), German chemist
  Irène Joliot-Curie (1897–1956), French chemist and nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935
  Chika Kuroda (1884–1968), Japanese chemist
  Stephanie Kwolek (1923–2014), American chemist, inventor of Kevlar
  Lidija Liepiņa  (1891–1985), Latvian chemist, one of the first Soviet doctorates in chemistry.
  Kathleen Lonsdale (1903–1971), British crystallographer
  Grace Medes (1886–1967), American biochemist
  Maud Menten (1879–1960), Canadian biochemist
  Muriel Wheldale Onslow (1880–1932), British biochemist
  Helen T. Parsons (1886–1977), American biochemist
  Nellie M. Payne (1900–1990), American entomologist and agricultural chemist
  Eva Philbin (1914–2005), Irish chemist
  Darshan Ranganathan (1941–2001), Indian organic chemist
  Mildred Rebstock (1919–2011), American pharmaceutical chemist
  Elizabeth Rona, (1890–1981) Hungarian (naturalized American) nuclear chemist and polonium expert
  Patsy Sherman (1930–2008), American chemist, co-inventor of Scotchgard
  Marija Šimanska (1922–1995), Latvian chemist
  Ida Noddack Tacke (1896–1978), German chemist and physicist
  Grace Oladunni Taylor, Nigerian chemist 2nd woman inducted into the Nigerian Academy of Science
  Jean Thomas, British biochemist (chromatin)
  Michiyo Tsujimura (1888–1969), Japanese biochemist, agricultural scientist
  Joanna Maria Vandenberg (born 1938), Dutch solid state chemist and crystallographer
  Elizabeth Williamson, English pharmacologist and herbalist
  Ada Yonath (1939–), Israeli crystallographer, Nobel prize in Chemistry 2009
  Christina Miller (1899–2001) Scottish chemist, one of the first women elected to Royal Society of Edinburgh
caption: Alice Ball
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