21st-century Canadian women scientists

The list 21st-century Canadian women scientists includes Cheryl Arrowsmith, Moira Brown, Mika McKinnon, Jean Addington and Kayla C. King. The list consists of 215 members and 3 sublists.

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Jennifer Gardy

Canadian biochemist

Overview: Jennifer Gardy is a Canadian scientist, educator and broadcaster, with expertise in the fields of molecular biology, biochemistry, and bioinformatics. Since February 2019 she has been the Deputy Director ...

Date of birth: 1979

Age: 45

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Scientist

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)

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21st-century Canadian biologists 70T

21st-century women scientists 995T

Women evolutionary biologists 77T
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Roberta Bondar

Canadian astronaut (born 1945)

Overview: Roberta Bondar CC OOnt FRCPC FRSC (born December 4, 1945) is Canada's first female astronaut and the first neurologist in space. After more than a decade as head of an international space medicine research ...

Date of birth: 4 December 1945

Age: 79

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Astronaut

Gender: Female

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Space Shuttle program astronauts 353T

21st-century women physicians 135T

Canadian women biologists 32T
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Suzanne Simard

Canadian forest ecologist (born 1960)

Overview: Suzanne Simard is a professor of forest ecology and teaches at the University of British Columbia.

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Teacher

Gender: Female

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Roxana Moslehi

Genetic epidemiologist

Overview: Roxana Moslehi is an Iranian genetic epidemiologist.

Nationality: American

Occupation: Scientist

Gender: Female

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Women oncologists 30T

20th-century Iranian physicians 16T

Canadian women biologists 38T
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Nancy Turner

Canadian ethnobiologist

Overview: Nancy Jean Turner (born 1947) is a notable North American ethnobiologist, originally qualified in botany, who has done extensive research work with the indigenous peoples of British Columbia, the results ...

Date of birth: 1947

Age: 77

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Scientist

Gender: Female

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University of British Columbia Faculty of Science alumni 33T

Linguists of Salishan languages 22T

Ethnobiologists 34T
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Danielle Fong (entrepreneur)

Businessperson

Overview: Danielle Fong (born October 30, 1987) is a Canadian scientist and entrepreneur. She was the co-founder and chief scientist of LightSail Energy, which is defunct as of 2018.

Date of birth: 30 October 1987

Age: 37

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Business

Gender: Female

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Forbes 30 Under 30 recipients 157T

Canadian energy industry businesspeople 3T

Businesspeople from Berkeley, California 28T
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Peggy Kleinplatz

21st-century Canadian clinical professor, psychologist, and sexologist

Overview: Peggy Joy Kleinplatz is a Canadian clinical psychologist and sexologist whose work often concerns optimal sexuality, opposition to the medicalization of human sexuality, and outreach to marginalized groups ...

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Psychologist

Gender: Female

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Canadian women psychologists 42T

21st-century Canadian women writers 944T

21st-century women scientists 757T
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Sara Seager

Canadian astronomer

Overview: Sara Seager (born 21 July 1971) is a Canadian-American astronomer and planetary scientist. She is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is known for her work on extrasolar planets ...

Date of birth: 21 July 1971

Age: 53

Nationality: American

Occupation: Educator

Gender: Female

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Fellows of the American Astronomical Society 98T

American women astronomers 163T

Jewish Canadian scientists 53T
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Jessica Ware

American entomologist

Overview: Jessica Lee Ware is a Canadian-American evolutionary biologist and entomologist. She is the associate curator of Odonata & non-holometabolous insect orders at the American Museum of Natural History, New ...

Occupation: Biologist

Gender: Female

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African-American women scientists 29T

University of British Columbia Faculty of Science alumni 34T

LGBT women 31T
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Julie Cruikshank

Canadian anthropologist

Overview: Julie Cruikshank is a Canadian anthropologist known for her research collaboration with Indigenous peoples of the Yukon. She is a Professor Emerita in the Department of Anthropology at the University of ...

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Anthropologist

Gender: Female

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Mary Anne White

Canadian materials scientist

Overview: Mary Anne White OC FRSC (born December 28, 1953) is a Canadian materials scientist who is the Harry Shirreff (Emerita) Professor of Chemical Research at Dalhousie University. Her research considers novel ...

Date of birth: 28 December 1953

Age: 71

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Scientist

Gender: Female

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Anne Croy

Professor at Queen's University and reproductive immunologist

Overview: Barbara Anne Croy FRSC (née McLeish) is a Canadian reproductive immunologist and professor emerita in Biomedical and Molecular Sciences at Queen's University. From 2004 until 2016, Croy was a Canada R ...

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Biologist

Gender: Female

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Judith H. Myers

Canadian-American ecologist

Overview: Judith (Judy) H. Myers is a Canadian-American ecologist. In 2014 she was elected president of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution. Professor Myers is well-known for her decades-long research ...

Date of birth: 3 July 1941

Age: 83

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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Scientists from Vancouver 33T

Canadian women non-fiction writers 669T

20th-century Canadian non-fiction writers 249T
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Leah Keshet

Israeli-Canadian mathematical biologist

Overview: Leah Edelstein-Keshet is an Israeli-Canadian mathematical biologist.

Nationality: Israeli

Occupation: Mathematician

Gender: Female

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Jewish Canadian scientists 53T

Canadian women biologists 32T

Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics 211T
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Victoria Kaspi

Astronomer

Overview: Victoria Michelle Kaspi CC FRS FRSC (born June 30, 1967) is an American-Canadian astrophysicist and a professor at McGill University. Her research primarily concerns neutron stars and pulsars.

Date of birth: 30 June 1967

Age: 57

Nationality: American

Occupation: Scientist

Gender: Female

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21st-century American women scientists 388T

20th-century American women scientists 967T

American women astronomers 163T
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M. Christine Zink

Canadian biologist

Overview: M. Christine "Chris" Zink is the director of the Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She also holds professorships in the Department of Pathology ...

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Scientist

Gender: Female

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Johns Hopkins University administrators 2T

Canadian women biologists 32T

Scientists from Toronto 63T
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Rima Rozen

Canadian geneticist

Overview: Rima Rozen is a Canadian geneticist who is a professor at McGill University. Her current research focuses on genetic and nutritional deficiencies in folate metabolism and their impact on complex traits ...

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Scientist

Gender: Female

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21st-century women scientists 757T

20th-century women scientists 1,930T

Women geneticists 95T
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Gisèle Lamoureux

Canadian photographer and scientist

Overview: Gisèle Lamoureux, CM CQ (October 5, 1942 – June 23, 2018) was a Canadian photographer, botanist and ecologist.

Date of birth: 1942

Date of death: 23 June 2018

Age: 76 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Scientist

Gender: Female

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2018 deaths 9,212T

Scientists from Montreal 74T

2018 deaths 7,472T
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Moira Brown

Canadian marine biologist

Overview: Moira Brown is a Canadian North Atlantic right whale researcher. She is leading the initiative to convince the Government of Canada, shipping industry and scientists to address ship strikes and North ...

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Biologist

Gender: Female

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Scientists from Montreal 78T

Canadian women biologists 38T

21st-century women scientists 817T
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Lyla Pinch Brock

Canadian egyptologist

Overview: Lyla Pinch Brock is a Canadian Egyptologist, specializing in epigraphy. She lives in Saissac, France.

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Archaeologist

Gender: Female

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Canadian women archaeologists 11T

Canadian women scientists 122T

Year of birth missing (living people) 37,022T