American women biologists

The list American women biologists includes Cara Santa Maria, Rachel L. Carson, Lynn Alexander, Xiaowei Zhuang and Flossie Wong-Staal. The list consists of 505 members and 11 sublists.

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American women neuroscientists
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American women biochemists
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American women geneticists
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American women zoologists
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American women ecologists
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Cara Santa Maria

American science communicator and podcaster (born 1983)

Overview: Cara Louise Santa Maria (born October 19, 1983) is an American science communicator. She hosts the podcast Talk Nerdy and co-hosts The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe podcast, and was a co-host of TechKnow ...

Date of birth: 19 October 1983

Age: 40

Nationality: American

Occupation: Personality

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 3" (160 cm)

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HuffPost bloggers 23T

American women podcasters 231T

American women neuroscientists 169T
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Xiaowei Zhuang

American biophysicist

Overview: Xiaowei Zhuang (simplified Chinese: 庄小威; traditional Chinese: 莊小威; pinyin: Zhuāng Xiǎowēi; born January 1972) is a Chinese-American biophysicist who is the David B. Arnold Jr. Professor of ...

Date of birth: 21 January 1972

Age: 52

Nationality: Chinese

Occupation: Scientist

Gender: Female

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Women in optics 47T

People from Rugao 8T

Biologists from Jiangsu 29T
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Rachel L. Carson

American marine biologist and conservationist (1907–1964)

Overview: Rachel Louise Carson (May 27, 1907 – April 14, 1964) was an American marine biologist, author, and conservationist whose book Silent Spring and other writings are credited with advancing the global en ...

Date of birth: 27 May 1907

Date of death: 14 April 1964

Age: 56 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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Members of the Society of Woman Geographers 64T

20th-century American women scientists 967T

20th-century American biologists 162T
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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

21st-century American women scientists 991T
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Danni Washington

American activist

Overview: Daniell "Danni" Washington is an American activist, artist and presenter who campaigns for cleaner, plastic-free oceans. She founded the Not-for-Profit Big Blue & You, and presents the STEM-themed TV show ...

Nationality: American

Occupation: Biologist

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Lynn J. Rothschild

American evolutionary biologist, astrobiologist, and synthetic biologist

Overview: Lynn Justine Rothschild (born May 11, 1957) is an evolutionary biologist and astrobiologist at NASA's Ames Research Center, and was a consulting Professor at Stanford University, where she taught Astr ...

Date of birth: 11 May 1957

Age: 67

Nationality: American

Occupation: Biologist

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21st-century American biologists 461T

Astrobiologists 65T

Women biologists 332T
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Kathleen Rubins

Astronaut

Overview: Kathleen Hallisey "Kate" Rubins (born October 14, 1978) is a NASA astronaut. She became the 60th woman to fly in space when she launched on a Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station on July ...

Date of birth: 14 October 1978

Age: 45

Nationality: American

Occupation: Astronaut

Gender: Female

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Scientists from Connecticut 12T

Women astronauts 85T

American molecular biologists 151T
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Flossie Wong-Staal

American virologist

Overview: Flossie Wong-Staal (August 27, 1947–July 8, 2020), née Wong Yee Ching (Chinese: 黄以静; pinyin: Huáng Yǐjìng), was a Chinese-American virologist and molecular biologist. She was the first scientist ...

Date of birth: 27 August 1947

Date of death: 8 July 2020

Age: 72 (age at death)

Nationality: Hong Konger

Occupation: Biologist

Gender: Female

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21st-century American women scientists 388T

20th-century American women scientists 967T

2020 deaths 11,737T
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Elsa Salazar Cade

American entomologist

Overview: Elsa Salazar Cade (born 1952 in San Antonio, Texas) is a Mexican American science teacher and entomologist.

Date of birth: 1952

Age: 72

Nationality: American

Occupation: Educator

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Hispanic and Latino American scientists 34T

Schoolteachers from Texas 24T

University of Texas at Austin College of Education alumni 30T
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Munira A. Basrai

American geneticist

Overview: Munira Adnan Basrai is an American geneticist researching genome stability and cell cycle regulation in yeast and human cancers. She is a senior investigator at the National Cancer Institute.

Nationality: American

Occupation: Biologist

Gender: Female

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21st-century American women scientists 532T

21st-century American biologists 574T

Human geneticists 26T
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Betty Hay

Developmental biologist

Overview: Elizabeth Dexter “Betty” Hay (April 2, 1927 – August 20, 2007) was an American cell and developmental biologist. She was best known for her research in limb regeneration, the role of the extracellular ...

Date of birth: 2 April 1927

Date of death: 20 August 2007

Age: 80 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Biologist

Gender: Female

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20th-century American women scientists 967T

20th-century American scientists 1,238T

20th-century women scientists 1,930T
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Jewel Plummer Cobb

American biologist

Overview: Jewel Plummer Cobb (January 17, 1924 – January 1, 2017) was an American biologist, cancer researcher, professor, dean, and academic administrator. She contributed to the field of cancer research by studying ...

Date of birth: 17 January 1924

Date of death: 1 January 2017

Age: 92 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Biologist

Gender: Female

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2017 deaths 9,371T

Women heads of universities and colleges 249T

African-American scientists 217T
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Barbara McClintock

cytogeneticist

Overview: Barbara McClintock (June 16, 1902 – September 2, 1992) was an American scientist and cytogeneticist who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. McClintock received her PhD in botany ...

Date of birth: 16 June 1902

Date of death: 2 September 1992

Age: 90 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Scientist

Gender: Female

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20th-century American women scientists 967T

Nobel laureates affiliated with Missouri 35T

20th-century American biologists 162T
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Sangeeta N. Bhatia

American Nanotechnologist

Overview: Sangeeta N. Bhatia (born 1968) is an American biological engineer and the John J. and Dorothy Wilson Professor at MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science and Electrical Engineering and Computer ...

Date of birth: 24 June 1968

Age: 56

Nationality: American

Occupation: Educator

Gender: Female

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MIT School of Engineering faculty 95T

MIT School of Engineering alumni 716T

20th-century women engineers 195T
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Mary Styles Harris

American geneticist

Overview: Mary Styles Harris, Ph.D. (born June 26, 1949) is an American Biologist and Geneticist. Harris earned a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from Lincoln University in Pennsylvania in 1971 and a Ph.D. in genetics ...

Date of birth: 26 June 1949

Age: 75

Nationality: American

Occupation: Scientist

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African-American scientists 217T

American geneticists 457T

American scientists 988T
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Grace Olive Wiley

American herpetologist

Overview: Grace Olive Wiley (1884 – July 20, 1948) was an American herpetologist best known for her work with venomous snakes. She died of a snakebite she received while posing for a photographer at the age of ...

Date of birth: 1883

Date of death: 20 July 1948

Age: 65 (age at death)

Occupation: Scientist

Gender: Female

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20th-century American women scientists 967T

People from Chanute, Kansas 11T

Women herpetologists 26T
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Cornelia Clapp

American zoologist

Overview: Cornelia Maria Clapp (March 17, 1849 – December 31, 1934) was an American zoologist and academic specializing in marine biology. She was born in Montague, Massachusetts, the first daughter and oldest child ...

Date of birth: 17 March 1849

Date of death: 31 December 1934

Age: 85 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Biologist

Gender: Female

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19th-century American women scientists 75T

20th-century American women scientists 967T

People from Montague, Massachusetts 20T
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Rosa Smith Eigenmann

American ichthyologist

Overview: Rosa Smith Eigenmann (October 7, 1858 – January 12, 1947) was an American ichthyologist (the branch of zoology devoted to the study of fish), as well as a writer, editor, former curator at the California ...

Date of birth: 7 October 1858

Date of death: 12 January 1947

Age: 88 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Biologist

Gender: Female

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19th-century American women scientists 75T

American women curators 208T

20th-century American women scientists 967T
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Ruth Turner

American biologist

Overview: Ruth Dixon Turner (1914 – April 30, 2000) was a pioneering U.S. marine biologist and malacologist. She was the world's expert on Teredinidae or shipworms, a taxonomic family of wood-boring bivalve ...

Date of birth: 1915

Date of death: 30 April 2000

Age: 84 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Biologist

Gender: Female

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20th-century American women scientists 967T

20th-century American scientists 1,238T

20th-century women scientists 1,930T
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Polly Matzinger

American immunologist

Overview: Polly Celine Eveline Matzinger (born July 21, 1947 in La Seyne, France) is an immunologist who proposed the danger model theory of how the immune system works. In 2002, Discover magazine recognized Ma ...

Date of birth: 21 July 1947

Age: 77

Nationality: French

Occupation: Biologist

Gender: Female

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Humour in science 5T

National Institutes of Health people 112T

Women immunologists 27T