Women have made substantial contributions to chemistry, physics and nuclear science from the earliest days of exploration of radiation through to the development of nuclear power. These contributions continue today, despite most women experiencing severe obstacles and handicaps in access to education, research and employment opportunities and funding. Many succeeded anyway, sometimes at great personal cost. 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 (with corresponding black and white images) are historical contributors. Names in gold (and color images) are contemporary women working today. (Some contemporary women in the below list link directly to their LinkedIn profiles and you’ll find their image there.)
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
Christine King
Maria Korsnick
Leona W. Marshall Libby
Jessica Lovering
Lise Meitner
Princess Mthombeni
Ida Noddack
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
© 2025 Nucleation Capital | Terms & Policies