Name | Chapter and year | Notability | References |
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Isabella Abbott | Honorary, 2001 | Phycologist and ethnobotanist at Stanford University | [3] |
Ruth M. Addoms | | Botanist at Duke University | [4] |
Virginia Apgar | Honorary, 1971 | Physician, obstetrical anesthesiologist, medical researcher, and inventor of the Apgar score | [5] [3] |
Beulah Armstrong | Gamma, 1924 | Mathematician and professor at the University of Illinois | [6] |
Carrie Adeline Barbour | Iota, 1927 | Assistant professor and assistant curator of paleontology at the University of Nebraska State Museum | [7] [8] |
Lela Viola Barton | Honorary, 1964 | Botanist with the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research | [5] [3] |
Raven Baxter | Honorary, 2023 | Science communicator and STEM educator | [3] |
Emma Benn | | Biostatistician, professor, and dean at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | [9] |
May Berenbaum | Honorary, 2017 | Entomologist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | [3] |
Lynne Billard | Honorary, 1995 | Statistician and professor at the University of Georgia | [3] |
Katharine Burr Blodgett | Honorary, 1951 | Physicist and chemist with General Electric | [3] [5] |
Louise Arner Boyd | Honorary, 1959 | Explorer of Greenland and the Arctic | [3] [5] |
Hazel Branch | Alpha, 1921 | Entomologist and head of the Department of Zoology at Wichita State University | [2] |
Jean Brenchley | Honorary, 1986 | Microbiologist and professor at the Pennsylvania State University and Purdue University | [3] |
Mary Bunting | Honorary, 1963 | Microbiologist, geneticist, and president of Radcliffe College | [3] [5] |
Margaret Burbidge | Honorary, 1985 | Observational astronomer and astrophysicist | [3] |
Helen Calkins | | Mathematician and professor at the Pennsylvania College for Women | [6] |
Margery C. Carlson | Honorary, 1978 | Botanist and a professor at Northwestern University | [5] [3] |
Annie Jump Cannon | Honorary, 1931 | Astronomer who co-created the Harvard Classification Scheme, | [3] [5] |
Margery C. Carlson | Honorary, 1978 | Botanist and professor at Northwestern University | [10] [5] [3] |
Emma P. Carr | Honorary, 1934 | Spectroscopist and chair of the chemistry department at Mount Holyoke College | [3] [5] |
Marjorie Caserio | Honorary, 1980 | Chemist and professor at the University of California, Irvine and the University of California, San Diego | [3] |
Mary Agnes Chase | Honorary, 1963 | Botanist with the United States Department of Agriculture | [3] |
Martha E. Church | | Geographer and the first female president of Hood College | [11] |
Cornelia Clapp | Honorary, 1931 | Zoologist, specializing in marine biology. at the Marine Biological Laboratory | [3] [5] |
Jewel Plummer Cobb | Honorary, 1988 | Biologist and president of California State University, Fullerton | [3] |
Teresa Cohen | | Mathematician and professor at Pennsylvania State University | [6] |
Nancy Cole | | Mathematician who contributed to Morse theory | [6] |
Rita R. Colwell | Honorary, 1987 | Environmental microbiologist | [3] |
Zada Mary Cooper | Honorary, 1963 | Pharmacist and a professor of pharmacy at the University of Iowa | [3] [5] |
Kizzmekia Corbett | Honorary, 2023 | Assistant professor of immunology and infectious diseases at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health | [3] |
Ethaline Hartge Cortelyou | Alpha | Chemist and scientific technical writer who worked on the Manhattan Project | [12] [5] |
Martha Doan | Honorary, 1951 | Chemist and dean of women at Earlham College and Iowa Wesleyan College | [10] [3] |
Mildred Dresselhaus | Honorary, 2016 | Physicist, materials scientist, nanotechnologist, and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology | [3] |
Bernice Durand | | Physicist, professor, and vice provost at the University of Wisconsin–Madison | [13] |
Helen Dyer | Honorary, 1965 | Biochemist and cancer researcher | [3] [5] |
Sylvia Earle | Honorary, 2008 | Marine biologist and oceanographer with the National Geographic and U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | [3] |
Sophia Eckerson | Honorary, 1941 | Botanist, microchemist, and department chair at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research | [3] [5] |
Bernice Eddy | Honorary, 1967 | Virologist and epidemiologist at Northwestern University and Field Museum of Natural History | [5] [3] |
Alice Catherine Evans | Honorary, 1931 | Senior bacteriologist at the National Institutes of Health | [10] [3] [5] |
Ruth Faden | Honorary, 2003 | Founder of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics | [3] |
Margaret Clay Ferguson | Honorary, 1931 | Professor of botany and head of the department at Wellesley College | [3] [5] |
Edith M. Flanigen | Honorary, 1994 | Chemist known for her work at Union Carbide | [3] |
Helen Murray Free | Honorary, 1994 | Chemist | [3] |
Aline Huke Frink | Nu, 1936 | Mathematician and professor at Pennsylvania State University | [14] [6] |
Eloise Gerry | Honorary, 1956 | Research scientist with the U.S. Forest Service at the Forest Products Laboratory | [3] [5] |
Lillian Moller Gilbreth | Honorary, 1949 | Psychologist, industrial engineer, and pioneer in applying psychology to time-and-motion studies | [3] [5] |
Winifred Goldring | Honorary, 1966 | Paleontologist with the New York State Museum | [5] [3] |
Mary L. Good | Honorary, 1988 | Inorganic chemist and Under Secretary for Technology in the US Department of Commerce | [3] |
Adele L. Grant | Alpha, 1921 | Botanist who taught at the Missouri Botanical Garden, Cornell University, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Huguenot Faculty in Wellington, South Africa | [15] [2] |
Esther Greisheimer | Honorary, 1973 | Academic and medical researcher | [5] [3] |
Lois Wilfred Griffiths | | Mathematician and professor at Northwestern University | [6] |
Beatrice Hagen | | Mathematician and professor at Pennsylvania State University | [6] |
Alice Hamilton | Honorary, 1931 | Physician and toxicologist | [3] [5] |
Laura Hare | | Medical doctor, naturalist, and conservationist | [10] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] |
Anna J. Harrison | Honorary, 1985 | Organic chemist and professor at Mount Holyoke College | [3] |
Helen Hart | Honorary, 1967 | Plant pathologist and professor at the University of Minnesota | [5] [3] |
Janet W. Hartley | Honorary, 1980 | Virologist at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases | [3] |
Mary Gertrude Haseman | | Mathematician known for her work in knot theory | [6] |
Edith Haynes | | Professor of microbiology at the Indiana University School of Medicine | [21] [10] |
Nola Anderson Haynes | | Mathematician and professor at the University of Missouri | [6] |
Olive Hazlett | | Mathematician and researcher at the University of Illinois | [6] |
Marie Agnes Hinrichs | | Physiologist, zoologist, and professor at the University of Chicago, Southern Illinois University, and the University of Illinois | [22] |
Ariel Hollinshead | Honorary, 1977 | Cancer researcher and professor at George Washington University | [23] [5] [3] |
Elizabeth E. Hood | Honorary, 2019 | Plant geneticist and professor of agriculture at Arkansas State University | [3] |
Grace Hopper | Honorary, 1989 | Computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral | [3] |
Nancy Hopkins | Honorary, 2006 | Molecular biologist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. | [3] |
Hope E. Hopps | | Microbiologist and immunologist with the Food and Drug Administration | [24] |
Dorothy M. Horstmann | Honorary, 1973 | Epidemiologist, virologist, pediatrician, and professor at the Yale School of Medicine and the Yale School of Public Health | [5] [3] |
Susan B. Horwitz | Honorary, 1995 | Computer scientist and academic | [3] |
Alice S. Huang | Honorary, 1989 | Biologist who specializes in microbiology and virology | [3] |
Barbara Iglewski | Honorary, 1988 | Professor of microbiology and immunology and director of international programs at the University of Rochester Medical Center | [3] |
Jedidah Isler | Honorary, 2018 | Professor of astrophysics at Dartmouth College | [3] |
Janina Jeff | | Geneticist and a senior scientist at Illumina | [25] |
Roberta Frances Johnson | | Mathematician and professor at Wilson College, Colorado State University, and the University of Colorado | [6] |
Vivian Annabelle Johnson | | Physicist and professor at Purdue University | [26] |
Madeleine M. Joullié | Honorary, 2011 | Organic chemist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania | [3] |
Frances Oldham Kelsey | Honorary, 1988 | Pharmacologist and physician with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration | [3] |
Mahin Khatami | Omicron | Program director and health scientist administrator at the National Cancer Institute, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), | [27] [28] |
Ruth L. Kirschstein | Honorary, 2001 | Pathologist and director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences | [3] |
Flemmie Pansy Kittrell | Honorary, 1976 | Nutritionist who was instrumental in creating the Head Start | [3] [5] |
Mary Jeanne Kreek | Honorary, 1992 | Neurobiologist | [3] |
Lois Lampe | | Botanist and assistant professor at Ohio State University | [29] |
Rebecca Lancefield | Honorary, 1971 | Microbiologist with the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research | [5] [3] |
Mary Landers | | Mathematician who taught at Hunter College | [6] |
Jean Langenheim | Honorary, 2011 | Plant ecologist and ethnobotanist | [30] [3] |
Hellen Linkswiler | Honorary, 1982 | Dietitian, nutrition scientist, and professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison | [3] |
Marigold Linton | Honorary, 2018 | first Native American to earn a doctorate in psychology | [3] |
Mayme Logsdon | | Mathematician and professor at the University of Chicago | [6] |
Kathleen Lonsdale | Honorary, 1967 | Crystallographer | [5] [3] |
Madge Macklin | Honorary, 1949 | Physician is known for her work in the field of medical genetics | [3] [5] |
Lynne E. Maquat | | Professor of biochemistry, biophysics, pediatrics, and oncology at the University of Rochester Medical Center | [31] |
Barbara McClintock | Honorary, 1987 | Cytogeneticist who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | [3] |
Elizabeth McCoy | Honorary, 1973 | Microbiologist and professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison | [5] [3] |
Eula Davis McEwan | | Geologist and paleontologist who taught at the University of Nebraska | [7] |
Mary Alice McWhinnie | Honorary, 1974 | Biologist and professor at DePaul University | [3] [5] |
Margaret Mead | Honorary, 1963 | Cultural anthropologist, author, and speaker | [3] [5] |
Elizabeth C. Miller | Honorary, 1980 | Biochemist | [3] |
Nell I. Mondy | Honorary, 1986 | Biochemist and faculty of Cornell University | [3] |
Ethel Isabel Moody | Honorary, 1986 | Mathematician and professor at Pennsylvania State University | [6] [3] |
Rosalind Morris | Honorary, 2011 | Professor of plant cytogenetics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln | [3] |
Shruti Naik | Honorary, 2019 | Associate professor of pathology, dermatology, and medicine and associate director for the Colton Center for Autoimmunity at NYU Langone Health. | [3] |
Donna Nelson | Honorary, 2018 | Professor of chemistry at the University of Oklahoma | [3] |
Dorothy Virginia Nightingale | | Organic chemist and professor at the University of Missouri | [32] |
Yan Ning | Honorary, 2020 | Structural biologist and professor at Tsinghua University and Princeton University | [3] |
Ruth Sonntag Nussenzweig | Honorary, 1995 | Immunologist specializing in the development of malaria vaccines | [3] |
Ellen Ochoa | Honorary 2019 | NASA astronaut and former director of the Johnson Space Center. | [3] |
Helen Brewster Owens | | Mathematician, assistant professor at Penn State University, and suffragist | [6] |
Katherine Van Winkle Palmer | Alpha, 1921; Honorary, 1971 | Tertiary paleontologist and director of the Paleontological Research Institution | [10] [2] [5] [3] |
Sophy Parfin | | Entomologist with the National Museum of Natural History | [33] |
Helen Parsons | Honorary, 1966 | Biochemist and nutritionist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison | [5] [3] |
Edith Marion Patch | Honorary, 1941 | Entomologist and head of the entomology department at the University of Maine | [3] [5] |
Eva J. Pell | Honorary, 2001 | Biologist, plant pathologist, and science administrator at Pennsylvania State University and the Smithsonian Institution | [3] |
Jeannette Piccard | Honorary, 1971 | High-altitude balloonist | [3] [5] |
Margaret Pittman | Honorary, 1974 | Bacteriologist at the National Institutes of Health | [5] [3] |
Dorothy Powelson | | Microbiologist and associate professor at Purdue University | [34] |
Jessie Isabelle Price | | Veterinary microbiologist at the National Wildlife Health Center | [35] |
Johnnie Hines Watts Prothro | | Nutritionist and chair of the Department of Home Economics and Food Administration at Tuskegee University | [36] |
Edith Quimby | Honorary, 1951 | Medical researcher, physicist, and one of the founders of nuclear medicine | [3] [5] |
Adrienne Sophie Rayl | | Mathematician and University of Alabama Extension Center (now the University of Alabama at Birmingham) | [6] |
Elizabeth Wagner Reed | | Geneticist and one of the first scientists to work on Drosophila speciation | [37] |
Mina Rees | Honorary, 1971 | Head of the mathematics department of the Office of Naval Research | [5] [3] |
Sally Ride | Honorary, 1989 | NASA astronaut and physicist | [3] |
Jane Sands Robb | Honorary, 1939 | Professor of pharmacology at State University of New York Upstate Medical University | [3] [38] [5] |
Mary Dora Rogick | Honorary, 1965 | Zoologist, professor and researcher at the College of New Rochelle | [3] [5] |
Nina Roscher | Honorary, 1982 | Professor and chair of the chemistry department at American University | [3] |
Florence R. Sabin | Honorary, 1926 | First woman to hold a full professorship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the first woman elected to the National Academy of Sciences | [3] [5] |
Rosemary S. J. Schraer | Honorary, 1990 | Chancellor of the University of California, Riverside | [3] |
Florence B. Seibert | Honorary, 1943 | Biochemist who identified the active agent in the antigen tuberculin | [3] [5] |
Mary Lura Sherrill | Honorary, 1950 | Chemical researcher and professor at Mount Holyoke College | [3] [5] |
Patricia Silveyra | | Professor and chair of Environmental and Occupational Health at Indiana University School of Public Health | [39] |
Maxine Singer | Honorary, 1988 | Molecular biologist and administrator.of Carnegie Institution of Washington | [3] |
Maud Slye | Honorary 1931 | Pathologist at the University of Chicago | [3] [5] |
Thressa Stadtman | Honorary, 1987 | Biochemist who discovered selenocysteine | [3] |
Anna Stafford | | Mathematician with the Institute for Advanced Study | [6] |
Ruth Stokes | | Mathematician, cryptologist, and astronomer | [6] |
Evelyn Butler Tilden | | Microbiologist at the National Institutes of Health and Northwestern University Dental School | [40] |
Marjorie Townsend | Honorary, 1995 | Electrical engineer and the first woman to manage a spacecraft launch for NASA | [3] |
Bertha Van Hoosen | Honorary, 1931 | Surgeon and founding president of the American Medical Women's Association | [3] [5] |
Ellen Vitetta | Honorary, 1995 | Director of the Cancer Immunobiology Center at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center | [3] |
Lydia Villa-Komaroff | Honorary, 2001 | Molecular and cellular biologist | [3] |
Roxana Vivian | | Mathematics professor | [6] |
Joni Wallis | Honorary, 2023 | Neurophysiologist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley | [3] |
Evelyn J. Weber | | Biochemist, agronomist, and faculty of the Agronomy Department at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | [41] |
Marion Webster | Honorary, 1970 | Biochemist who was the first to isolate the Vi antigen of typhoid | [42] [5] [3] |
Elizabeth Weisburger | Honorary, 1977 | Chemist with the National Cancer Institute | [3] [43] [5] |
Marie Johanna Weiss | | Mathematician, university professor, and textbook author | [6] |
Cynthia Westcott | Alpha | Plant pathologist, author, and contributor to The New York Times , House and Garden , and The American Home | [44] |
Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler | Honorary, 1931 | Mathematician and professor at Bryn Mawr College | [3] [5] |
Anna Rachel Whiting | Honorary, 1965 | Geneticist | [5] [3] [45] |
Frances Wick | Honorary, 1934 | Physicist known for her studies on luminescence | [5] [3] |
Evelyn Prescott Wiggin | | Mathematician and professor at Randolph-Macon Woman's College | [6] |
Mary Louisa Willard | Honorary, 1957 | Forensic scientist and professor at Pennsylvania State University | [5] [3] |
Chien-Shiung Wu | Honorary, 1973 | Experimental physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project | [5] [3] |
Emily Kathryn Wyant | Delta | Mathematician and founder of Kappa Mu Epsilon | [6] [46] |
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow | Honorary, 1978 | Co-winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | [3] |