Women have made substantial contributions to nuclear science from its earliest days and continuing into today. In honor of Women’s History Month, we are pleased to introduce a few of these amazing scientists, researchers, innovators, regulators and leaders to you. (Names in white and black and white images are historical contributors. Color images and names in gold are women working today.)
Tikvah Alper
Meredith Angwin
Rita Baranwal
Sama Bilbao y Leon
Giulia Bisconti
Isabelle Boemeke
Shannon Bragg-Sitton
Harriet Brooks
Diane Cameron
Marie Curie
Irene Joliot-Curie
Aline Des Cloizeaux
Bertha Dlamini
Mary Lou Dunzik-Gougar
Eunice Newton Foote
Rosalind Franklin
Kirsty Gogan
Katy Huff
Tatjana Jevremovic
Adriènne Kelbie
Maria Korsnick
Leona W. Marshall Libby
Jessica Lovering
Lise Meitner
Princess Mthombeni
Clarice Phelps
Rachel Pritzker
Edith Quimby
Fiona Rayment OBE
Amy Roma
Lou Martinez Sancho
Grace Stanke
Kristine Svinicki
Elina Teplinsky
Tea Törmänen
Myrto Tripathi
Rumina Velshi
Katharine Way
Chien-Shiung Wu
Rosalyn Yalow
Eunice Newton Foote
Katy Huff
Mary Lou Dunzik-Gougar
Manhattan Project Women
Edith Quimby
Chien-Shiung Wu
Rosalyn Yalow
Isabelle Boemeke
Rumina Velshi
Rita Baranwal
Rosalind Franklin
Tikvah Alper
Katharine Way
Kirsty Gogan
Harriet Brooks
Lise Meitner
Clarice Phelps
Grace Stanke
Tatjana Jevremovic
Irene Joliot-Curie
Kristine Svinicki
Marie Curie
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Organizations Supporting Women in Nuclear
WiN Global (Women in Nuclear Global) — an organization of women working professionally in various fields of nuclear energy and radiation applications, with 35,000 members working in 129 countries.
Women in Nuclear IAEA — WiN IAEA is an organization based in Vienna committed to the advancement of qualified women in the nuclear and radiation professions.
Nucleation Capital — the first venture fund devoted to investing in advanced nuclear innovation and other deep decarbonization technologies and a firm founded by a woman, is pleased to have provided grant funding to the University of California at Berkeley to provide stipends to female nuclear engineering students seeking summer internships.
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