21st-century American women scientists

The list 21st-century American women scientists includes Connie Booth, Alyce Faye Eichelberger, Lera Boroditsky, Kathy Reichs and Shafi Goldwasser. The list consists of 1,646 members and 3 sublists.

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1.

Marissa Mayer

Technology company executive

Overview: Marissa Ann Mayer (born May 30, 1975) is an American businesswoman and investor. She is an information technology executive, and co-founder of Lumi Labs. Mayer formerly served as the president and chief ...

Date of birth: 30 May 1975

Age: 50

Nationality: American

Occupation: Business

Gender: Female

Partner: Zachary Bogue (Married)

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American women computer scientists 237T

21st-century American businesswomen 293T

Technology corporate directors 6T
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Connie Booth

American writer and actress

Overview: Connie Booth (born 1939/40 or 1941 or 1944) is an American-born writer, actress, comedian and psychotherapist based in Britain. She has appeared in several British television programmes and films, including ...

Date of birth: 31 January 1944

Age: 81

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

Partner: John Lahr (Married)

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Lahr family 5T

20th-century American women scientists 967T

American women television writers 652T
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Anne Wojcicki

American entrepreneur (born 1973)

Overview: Anne E. Wojcicki (woo-CHITS-kee; born July 28, 1973) is an American entrepreneur who co-founded and is CEO of the personal genomics company 23andMe. She founded the company in 2006 with Linda Avey and ...

Date of birth: 28 July 1973

Age: 51

Nationality: American

Occupation: Business

Gender: Female

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Businesspeople from Palo Alto, California 25T

Gunn High School alumni 26T

21st-century American biologists 879T
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Jessica Green

Researcher in biodiversity theory and microbial systems

Overview: Jessica Green is an American engineer, ecologist, and entrepreneur whose research focuses on Microbial Ecology and Genomics. She is an Alec and Kay Keith Professor at the University of Oregon, where she ...

Nationality: American

Occupation: Scientist

Gender: Female

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21st-century American biologists 461T

Santa Fe Institute people 110T

UC Berkeley College of Engineering alumni 183T
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Lera Boroditsky

American cognitive scientist

Overview: Lera Boroditsky (born c.1976) is a cognitive scientist and professor in the fields of language and cognition. She is currently one of the main contributors to the theory of linguistic relativity. She is ...

Date of birth: 1976

Age: 48

Nationality: American

Occupation: Psychologist

Gender: Female

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20th-century American women scientists 967T

Jewish women scientists 67T

21st-century American scientists 433T
6.

Cheryl Arutt

American commercial, print, television, and film actress

Overview: Cheryl Arutt (born May 13, 1966) is an American commercial, print, television, and film actress and a clinical and forensic psychologist and media consultant. She co-hosts and is a regular member of the ...

Date of birth: 13 May 1966

Age: 59

Nationality: American

Occupation: Doctor

Gender: Female

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American women psychologists 560T

20th-century American actresses 6,858T

American child actresses 1,759T
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Alyce Faye Eichelberger

American psychotherapist

Overview: Alyce Faye Eichelberger (née McBride; born October 28, 1944) is an American psychotherapist, author and talk radio host. She was previously married to golfer Dave Eichelberger, as well as actor-comedian ...

Date of birth: 28 October 1944

Age: 80

Nationality: American

Occupation: Radio Personality

Gender: Female

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20th-century American women scientists 974T

21st-century psychologists 62T

20th-century psychologists 972T
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Sabrina Gonzalez

American physicist (born 1993)

Overview: Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski (born June 3, 1993) is an American theoretical physicist from Chicago who studies high energy physics. She describes herself as "a proud first-generation Cuban-American and ...

Date of birth: 3 June 1993

Age: 31

Nationality: American

Occupation: Scientist

Gender: Female

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Hispanic and Latino American physicists 16T

Forbes 30 Under 30 recipients 193T

MIT Department of Physics alumni 246T
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Michelle Thaller

American astronomer

Overview: Dr. Michelle Lynn Thaller (born November 28, 1969) is an American astronomer and research scientist. Thaller is the assistant director for Science Communication at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

Date of birth: 28 November 1969

Age: 55

Nationality: American

Occupation: Astronomer

Gender: Female

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NASA astrophysicists 26T

American women astronomers 163T

NASA people 445T
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Lisa Randall

American Physicist

Overview: Lisa Randall (born June 18, 1962) is an American theoretical physicist working in particle physics and cosmology. She is the Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science on the physics faculty of Harvard ...

Date of birth: 18 June 1962

Age: 62

Nationality: American

Occupation: Scientist

Gender: Female

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American string theorists 57T

20th-century American women scientists 967T

MIT Center for Theoretical Physics faculty 27T
11.

Kathy Reichs

American writer and forensic anthropologist

Overview: Kathleen Joan Toelle Reichs (born July 7, 1948) is an American crime writer, forensic anthropologist and academic. She is an adjunct professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Ch ...

Date of birth: 1 July 1948

Age: 76

Nationality: American

Occupation: Educator

Gender: Female

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Canadian women anthropologists 40T

20th-century American women scientists 1,319T

American women television producers 822T
12.

Alma Powell

American, Relative

Overview: Alma Vivian Powell (née Johnson; born October 27, 1937) is an American audiologist and the wife of military and political figure Colin Powell, whom she married on August 25, 1962. She graduated from Fisk ...

Date of birth: 27 October 1937

Date of death: 29 July 2024

Age: 86 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Relative

Gender: Female

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Colin L. Powell family 4T

Audiologists 25T

African-American people 838T
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Sossina M. Haile

Ethiopian-American chemist

Overview: Sossina M. Haile (Ge'ez: ሶስና ሃይሌ, born July 28, 1966) is an American chemist, known for developing the first solid acid fuel cells. She is a

Date of birth: 1966

Age: 58

Nationality: American

Occupation: Scientist

Gender: Female

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20th-century American women scientists 967T

Fellows of the African Academy of Sciences 24T

Ethiopian women chemists 2T
14.

Faye Glenn Abdellah

Nurse

Overview: Faye Glenn Abdellah (March 13, 1919 – February 24, 2017) was an American pioneer in nursing research. Abdellah was the first nurse and woman to serve as the Deputy Surgeon General of the United ...

Date of birth: 13 March 1919

Date of death: 24 February 2017

Age: 97 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Nurse

Gender: Female

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United States Public Health Service personnel 18T

American women nurses 556T

2017 deaths 9,371T
15.

Shafi Goldwasser

Israeli American computer scientist

Overview: Shafrira "Shafi" Goldwasser (Hebrew: שפרירה גולדווסר‎) is an Israeli-American computer scientist and winner of the Turing Award in 2012. She is the RSA Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer ...

Date of birth: 1958

Age: 66

Nationality: Israeli

Occupation: Computer Programmer

Gender: Female

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MIT School of Engineering faculty 95T

20th-century American women scientists 967T

21st-century women mathematicians 283T
16.

Michele Noonan Ross

Author, reality tv star, cannabis advocate

Overview: Michele Noonan Ross (born June 16, 1982), also known as Michele Ann Noonan, Michele Osztrogonacz, and Michele Osztrogonacz Ross, is an American neuroscientist, author, and media personality. She is a noted ...

Date of birth: 16 June 1982

Age: 42

Nationality: American

Occupation: Personality

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

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American psychedelic drug advocates 74T

LGBT people from New Jersey 220T

American LGBT scientists 177T
17.

Katherine Johnson

American mathematician and physicist

Overview: Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson (August 26, 1918 - February 24, 2020) was an American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first ...

Date of birth: 26 August 1918

Date of death: 24 February 2020

Age: 101 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Educator

Gender: Female

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20th-century American women educators 307T

African-American computer scientists 18T

Schoolteachers from West Virginia 31T
18.

Ellen Ochoa

American astronaut and engineer (born 1958)

Overview: Ellen Ochoa (born May 10, 1958) is an American engineer, former astronaut and former director of the Johnson Space Center. In 1993 Ochoa became the first Hispanic woman to go to space when she served on ...

Date of birth: 10 May 1958

Age: 67

Nationality: American

Occupation: Astronaut

Gender: Female

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Hispanic and Latino American scientists 41T

Women in optics 90T

Space Shuttle program astronauts 353T
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Lynn Margulis

American Biologist

Overview: Lynn Margulis (born Lynn Petra Alexander; March 5, 1938 – November 22, 2011) was an American evolutionary theorist, biologist, science author, educator, and science popularizer, and was the primary modern ...

Date of birth: 5 March 1938

Date of death: 22 November 2011

Age: 73 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Scientist

Gender: Female

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Symbiogenesis researchers 21T

University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni 739T

20th-century American women scientists 1,318T
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Mary Trump

American psychologist and writer (born 1965)

Overview: Mary Lea Trump (born May 3, 1965) is an American psychologist, businessperson, and author. She is a niece of President Donald J. Trump. Her 2020 book about him and the family, Too Much and Never Enough ...

Date of birth: 3 May 1965

Age: 60

Nationality: American

Occupation: Psychologist

Gender: Female

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LGBT psychologists 36T

Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences alumni 202T

21st-century American psychologists 1,312T