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Notable Figures in Science

Notable Figures in Science is a resource list and mini-series within the podcast where we showcase Black, Indigenous, People of Color, Women, and people within the LGBTQ+ community who have significantly impacted the world through science.

Dr. John Francis “Planet Walker”
 Environmentalist, Teacher and Author
Dr. Wangari Maathai
Social, environmental, and political activist

Dr. Charles H. Turner
Zoologist, educator, and comparative psychologist
Dr. Roger Arliner Young
Zoologist, Biologist, and Marine Biologist
Dr. Marie Maynard Daly
American Biochemist
Dr. Rosalind Franklin
Chemist
Dr. Joan Murrell Owens
American Educator and Marine Biologist
Dr. Margaret Collins
American Entomologist and Civil Rights Activist
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim
Environmental Activist and Geographer
Rachel Carson
Author and Conservationist
Dr. Har Gobind Khorana
Biochemist
Dr. Mae Jemison
Engineer and Astronaut
Alice Ball
American Chemist
Dr. Harold Amos
American Microbiologist
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams
American Surgeon
DR. KATIE BOUMAN
American Computer Scientist
DR. CHIEN-SHIUNG WU
Physicist
DR. BENJAMIN BANNEKER
American Inventor
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
Statistician, Nurse, and Social Worker
BEN BARRES
Neurobiologist
ALAN TURING
Mathematician and Logician
BECK STRAUSS
Planetary Geophysist
DR. BARBARA MCCLINTOCK
Geneticist
DR. EMMETT CHAPPELLE
American Inventor
SANGHAMITRA BANDYOPADHYAY
Computational biologist
SHEN KUO
Scientist and Philosopher
LUIS WALTER ALVARES
Physicist
CAROLINE HERSCHEL
Astronomer
JANE GOODALL
Primatologist and Scientist
PERCY LAVON JULIAN
Chemist and Entrepreneur

FRED BEGAY
Nuclear Physicist

HYPATIA
Astronomer, Mathematician, and Philosopher 
EUNICE FOOTE
Women’s Rights Activist and Scientist
KATHERINE JOHNSON
American mathematician

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