Extra indexes for Jessy Randall's women-in-STEM poetry project, begun in 2016, later Mathematics for Ladies: Poems on Women in Science (MIT / Gold SF, 2022) and The Path of Most Resistance: More Poems on Women in Science (MIT / Gold SF, forthcoming 2025).

ALPHABETICAL LIST

Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz (1822-1907)

Fay Ajzenberg-Selove (1926-2012)

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836-1917)

Mary Anning (1799-1847)

Virginia Apgar (1909-1974)

Agnes Arber (1879-1960)

Anna Atkins (1799-1871)

Carolyn Attneave (1920-1992)

Charlotte Auerbach (1899-1994)

Hertha Ayrton (1854-1923)

June Bacon-Bercey (1928-2019)

Alice Ball (1892-1916)

Nina Karlovna Bari (1901-1961)

James Miranda Barry / Margaret Ann Bulkley (ca. 1789-1865)

Laura Bassi (1711-1778)

Bertha Benz (1849-1944)

Dorothy Bernstein (1914-1988)

Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910)

Rachel Bodley (1831-1888)

Rachel Fuller Brown (1898-1980)

Jocelyn Bell Burnell (b. 1943)

Annie Jump Cannon (1863-1941)

Rachel Carson (1907-1964)

Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673)

Mary Agnes Chase (1869-1963)

May Edward Chinn (1896-1980)

Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (b. 1923)

Eugenie Clark (1921-2016)

Edith Clarke (1883-1959)

Elzada Clover (1897-1980)

Jewel Isadora Plummer Cobb (1924-2017)

Josephine Cochrane (1839-1913)

Jane Colden (1724-1766)

Laura Hunter Colwin (1911-2006)

Gerty Cori (1896-1957)

Rebecca Lee Crumpler (1831-1895)

Marie Curie (1867-1934)

Mildred Dresselhaus (1930-2017)

Émilie du Châtelet (1706-1749)

Alice Eastwood (1859-1953)

Ellen Eglin (before 1849-after 1890)

Roberta Eike (b. 1934)

Honor Fell (1900-1986)

Eunice Newton Foote (1819-1888)

Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958)

Ursula Franklin (1921-2016)

Maria Gaetana, the Witch of Agnesi (1718-1799) 

Diana Garcia-Prichard (b. 1949)

Hilda Geiringer von Mises (1893-1973)

Marie-Sophie Germain (1776-1831)

Lillian Gilbreth (1878-1972)

Jane Goodall (b. 1934)

Evelyn Boyd Granville (1924-2023)

Ida Gray (1867-1953)

Marion Gray (1902-1979)

Frances Hamerstrom (1907-1998)

Elizabeth Hayes (1912-1984)

Ellen Amanda Hayes (1851-1930)

Elizabeth Lee Hazen (1855-1975)

Laura Hecox (1854–1919)

Caroline Herschel (1750-1848)

Fanny Hesse (1858-1934)

Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)

Grace Brewster Murray Hopper (1906-1992)

Libbie Henrietta Hyman (1888-1969)

Hypatia (ca. 360-415)

Mae Jemison (b. 1956)

Katherine Jones, Viscountess Ranelagh (1615-1691)

Frances Oldham Kelsey (1914-2015)

Flemmie Pansy Kittrell (1904-1980)

Margaret Kivelson (b. 1928)

Sofya Kovalefskaya (1850-1891)

Susan La Flesche Picotte (1865-1950)

Hedy Lamarr (1914-2000)

Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868-1921)

Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909-2012)

Ada Lovelace (1815-1852)

Hilde Mangold (1898-1924)

Anna Morandi Manzolini (1716-1774)

Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906-1972)

Barbara McClintock (1902-1992)

Sallie Pero Mead (1893-1981)

Beatrice Medicine (1923-2005)

Lise Meitner (1878-1968)

Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717)

Ynes Mexia (1870-1938)

Maryam Mirzakhani (1977-2017)

Maria Mitchell (1818-1889)

Raye Montague (1935-2018)

Margaret Morse Nice (1883-1974)

Emmy Noether (1882-1935)

Joan Murrell Owens (1933-2011)

Bertha Parker Pallan (1907-1978)

Pandrosion (ca. 300-360)

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1979)

Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps (1793-1884)

Beatrix Potter (1866-1943)

Joan Beauchamp Procter (1897-1931)

Mina Rees (1902-1997)

Ellen H. Swallow Richards (1842-1911)

Helen Rodríguez-Trías (1929-2001)

Emily Roebling (1803-1903)

Mary G. Ross (1908-2008)

Mary Ellen Rudin (1924-2013)

Charlotte Angas Scott (1858-1931)

Carolyn Shoemaker (1929-2021)

Odette Shotwell (1922-1998)l

Maud Slye (1869-1954)

Georgia Caldwell Smith (1909-1961)

Mary Somerville (1780-1872)

Nettie Stevens (1861-1912)

Alicia Boole Stott (1860-1940)

Effie Stroud (1909-1994)

Tapputi-Belatekallim (ca. 1200 BCE)

Helen Taussig (1898-1986)

Marie Tharp (1920-2006)

Mary Treat (1830-1923)

Trota of Solerno (ca. 11th-12th century)

Lydia Villa-Komaroff (b. 1947)

Elsie Maud Wakefield (1886-1972)

Johanna Westerdijk (1883-1961)

Sarah Frances Whiting (1847-1927)

Anna Wessels Williams (1863-1954)

Chien-Shiung Wu (1912-1997)

Roger Arliner Young (1899-1964)

Wang Zhenyi (1769-1797)

AMERICAN WOMEN OF COLOR

Rebecca Lee Crumpler (1831-1895) (Black)
Ellen Eglin (before 1849-after 1890) (Black)
Susan La Flesche Picotte (1865-1950) (Native American - Omaha/Ponca)
Ida Gray (1867-1953) (Black)
Ynes Mexia (1870-1938) (Mexican American)
Alice Ball (1892-1916) (Black)
May Edward Chinn (1896-1980) (Black)
Roger Arliner Young (1899-1964) (Black)
Flemmie Pansy Kittrell (1904-1980) (Black)
Bertha Parker Pallan (1907-1978) (Native American - Abenaki/Seneca)
Mary G. Ross (1908-2008) (Native American - Cherokee)
Effie Stroud (1909-1994) (Black)
Georgia Caldwell Smith (1909-1961) (Black)
Chien-Shiung Wu (1912-1997) (Chinese American)
Carolyn Attneave (1920-1992) (Native American - Delaware)
Eugenie Clark (1921-2016) (Japanese American)
Beatrice Medicine (1923-2005) (Native American - Sinasapa and Minneconjou Lakota)
Jewel Isadora Plummer Cobb (1924-2017) (Black)
Evelyn Boyd Granville (1924-2023) (Black)
Helen Rodríguez-Trías (1920-2001) (Latina)
June Bacon-Bercey (1928-2019) (Black)
Gladys West (b. 1930) (Black)
Joan Murrell Owens (1933-2011) (Black)
Raye Montague (1935-2018) (Black)
Lydia Villa-Komaroff (b. 1947) (Latina)
Diana Garcia-Prichard (b. 1949) (Latina)
Mae Jemison (b. 1956) (Black)

BY STEM FIELD (some names appear multiple times)

GENERAL SCIENCE / NATURAL PHILOSOPHY
First Scientist (? - ?)
Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673)
Katherine Jones, Viscountess Ranelagh (1615-1691)
Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717)
Émilie du Châtelet (1706-1749)

ANATOMY
Anna Morandi Manzolini (1716-1774)

ANTHROPOLOGY / ARCHAEOLOGY
Bertha Parker Pallan (1907-1978)
Beatrice Medicine (1923-2005)

ASTRONOMY
Hypatia (ca. 360-415)
Caroline Herschel (1750-1848)
Wang Zhenyi (1769-1797)
Mary Somerville (1780-1872)
Maria Mitchell (1818-1889)
Sarah Frances Whiting (1847-1927)
Ellen Amanda Hayes (1851-1930)
Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868-1921)
Annie Jump Cannon (1863-1941)
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1979)
Carolyn Shoemaker (1929-2021)
Jocelyn Bell Burnell (b. 1943)

BIOLOGY
Elizabeth Lee Hazen (1855-1975)
Fanny Hesse (1858-1934)
Gerty Cori (1896-1957)
Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909-2012)
Laura Hunter Colwin (1911-2006)
Jewel Isadora Plummer Cobb (1924-2017)
Lydia Villa-Komaroff (b. 1947)

BOTANY
Jane Colden (1724-1766)
Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps (1793-1884)
Anna Atkins (1799-1871)
Rachel Bodley (1831-1888)
Mary Treat (1830-1923)
Alice Eastwood (1859-1953)
Mary Agnes Chase (1869-1963)
Ynes Mexia (1870-1938)
Agnes Arber (1879-1960)
Johanna Westerdijk (1883-1961)
Elzada Clover (1897-1980)
Lois Jotter (1914-2013)

CHEMISTRY
Tapputi-Belatekallim (ca. 1200 BCE)
Ellen H. Swallow Richards (1842-1911)
Rachel Fuller Brown (1898-1980)
Alice Ball (1892-1916)
Gerty Cori (1896-1957)
Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958)
Odette Shotwell (1922-1998)
Diana Garcia-Prichard (b. 1949)

CLIMATOLOGY
Eunice Newton Foote (1819-1888)

COMPUTER SCIENCE
Ada Lovelace (1815-1852)
Grace Brewster Murray Hopper (1906-1992)
Dorothy Bernstein (1914-1988)
Evelyn Boyd Granville (b. 1924)

EMBRYOLOGY
Hilde Mangold (1898-1924)

ENGINEERING
Josephine Cochrane (1839-1913)
Emily Roebling (1803-1903)
Ellen Eglin (before 1849-after 1890)
Bertha Benz (1849-1944)
Hertha Ayrton (1854-1923)
Lillian Gilbreth (1878-1972)
Edith Clarke (1883-1959)
Sallie Pero Mead (1893-1981)
Mary G. Ross (1908-2008)
Hedy Lamarr (1914-2000)
Mildred Dresselhaus (1930-2017)
Raye Montague (1935-2018)
Mae Jemison (b. 1956)

ENTOMOLOGY
Mary Treat (1830-1923)

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
Rachel Carson (1907-1964)
Elizabeth Hayes (1912-1984)

ETHOLOGY
Jane Goodall (b. 1934)

GENETICS
Nettie Stevens (1861-1912)
Charlotte Auerbach (1899-1994)
Barbara McClintock (1902-1992)

GEOLOGY
Marie Tharp (1920-2006)

LIBRARY SCIENCE
Effie Stroud (1909-1994)

MARINE BIOLOGY
Roger Arliner Young (1899-1964)
Rachel Carson (1907-1964)
Eugenie Clark (1921-2016)
Joan Murrell Owens (1933-2011)
Roberta Eike (b. 1934)

MATHEMATICS
Pandrosion (ca. 300-360)
Hypatia (ca. 360-415)
Émilie du Châtelet (1706-1749)
Maria Gaetana, the Witch of Agnesi (1718-1799) 
Wang Zhenyi (1769-1797)
Marie-Sophie Germain (1776-1831)
Mary Somerville (1780-1872)
Ada Lovelace (1815-1852)
Sofya Kovalefskaya (1850-1891)
Ellen Amanda Hayes (1851-1930)
Hertha Ayrton (1854-1923)
Charlotte Angas Scott (1858-1931)
Alicia Boole Stott (1860-1940)
Emmy Noether (1882-1935)
Hilda Geiringer von Mises (1893-1973)
Sallie Pero Mead (1893-1981)
Nina Karlovna Bari (1901-1961)
Mina Rees (1902-1997)
Marion Gray (1902-1979)
Georgia Caldwell Smith (1909-1961)
Dorothy Bernstein (1914-1988)
Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (b. 1923)
Evelyn Boyd Granville (1924-2023)
Mary Ellen Rudin (1924-2013)
Gladys West (b. 1930)
Maryam Mirzakhani (1977-2017)

MEDICINE
Trota of Solerno (ca. 11th-12th century)
Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)
James Miranda Barry / Margaret Ann Bulkley (ca. 1789-1865)
Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910)
Rebecca Lee Crumpler (1831-1895)
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836-1917)
Elizabeth Lee Hazen (1855-1975)
Anna Wessels Williams (1863-1954)
Susan La Flesche Picotte (1865-1950)
Ida Gray (1867-1953)
Maud Slye (1869-1954)
Alice Ball (1892-1916)
May Edward Chinn (1896-1980)
Rachel Fuller Brown (1898-1980)
Gerty Cori (1896-1957)
Helen Taussig (1898-1986)
Virginia Apgar (1909-1974)
Elizabeth Hayes (1912-1984)
Frances Oldham Kelsey (1914-2015)
Helen Rodríguez-Trías (1929-2001)
Mae Jemison (b. 1956)

METEOROLOGY
June Bacon-Bercey (1928-2019)

MYCOLOGY (mushrooms, fungi)
Beatrix Potter (1866-1943)
Elsie Maud Wakefield (1886-1972)

NATURAL HISTORY
Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz (1822-1907)
Mary Treat (1830-1923)
Laura Hecox (1854–1919)
Margaret Morse Nice (1883-1974)
Libbie Henrietta Hyman (1888-1969)
Frances Hamerstrom (1907-1998)

NUTRITION
Flemmie Pansy Kittrell (1904-1980)

ORNITHOLOGY
Margaret Morse Nice (1883-1974)
Frances Hamerstrom (1907-1998)

PALAEONTOLOGY
Mary Anning (1799-1847)

PATHOLOGY
Maud Slye (1869-1954)

PHYSICS
Laura Bassi (1711-1778)
Marie Germain (1776-1831)
Hertha Ayrton (1854-1923)
Marie Curie (1867-1934)
Lise Meitner (1878-1968)
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1979)
Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906-1972)
Chien-Shiung Wu (1912-1997)
Ursula Franklin (1921-2016)
Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (b. 1923)
Fay Ajzenberg-Selove (1926-2012)
Margaret Kivelson (b. 1928)
Mildred Dresselhaus (1930-2017)
Jocelyn Bell Burnell (b. 1943)

PSYCHOLOGY
Lillian Gilbreth (1878-1972)
Carolyn Attneave (1920-1992)

ZOOLOGY
Libbie Henrietta Hyman (1888-1969)
Joan Beauchamp Procter (1897-1931)
Roger Arliner Young (1899-1964)
Honor Fell (1900-1986)