le Nobel
- Maria Sklodowska Curie(1867-1934)
- Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906- 1972 )
- Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-1994)
- Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909)
- Barbara McClintock (1902-1992)
...e le donne non Nobel
- Rosalyn Franklin (1920-1957)
- Maude Menten (1879-1960)
- Lise Meitner (1878-1968)
- Ida Tacke Noddack (1896- 1979)
- Evelyn Fox Keller (1936)