Get to know a few amazing #WomenInScience in our collection, like Frances Arnold, a scientist, chemical engineer, and the winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize for chemistry. She was also a 2019 American Portrait Gala honoree! s.si.edu/2xUj2lZ #WomensHistoryMonth 
Maxine Singer is a pioneering molecular biologist who earned the National Medal of Science in 1992. Singer is also known for promoting science education in public schools and equal access for women and minorities in scientific fields. s.si.edu/3dqse1G #WomenInScience
Mary Engle Pennington, born in 1872, was a bacteriological chemist and refrigeration engineer. Despite being denied a bachelor's degree (for being a woman), Pennington excelled in her career, being the FDA's first female lab chief. s.si.edu/2Uw4mBm #WomenInScience
Called “the matriarch in modern cancer genetics,” Dr. Janet Rowley was a geneticist who was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1999, followed by the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her work finding genetic links to cancer. s.si.edu/2UIzcH9 #WomenInScience
Alice Hamilton, born in 1869, was a toxicology pioneer and the first female faculty at Harvard University. Hamilton's work helped make the workplace less dangerous, dedicating her work to public health and safety. s.si.edu/2WNJgkP #WomenInScience
In 1977, physicist Rosalyn Yalow became the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in medicine. She co-discovered a way to measure insulin and her work has opened many doors in the study of disease. s.si.edu/2WDANjO #WomenInScience
Chien-Shiung Wu did her major theoretical work after World War II at Columbia University on the behavior of subatomic particles. While she did not win the Nobel Prize, Wu did win most of the other major prizes for her work. s.si.edu/33FMyYq #WomenInScience
In 1936, Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, an investigation into the harm of man-made pollutants that caught the attention of President John Kennedy. Her work helped pave the way for dramatic changes in the use of pesticides. s.si.edu/2UbNuRc #WomenInScience
Julie Packard has dedicated her career to preserving ocean life to give “voice to the ocean, [to] have people realize our lives truly depend on the future of the sea.” In 1998, Packard received the Audubon Medal for Conservation. s.si.edu/39eZqWN #WomenInScience
