10 Famous Women Scientists in History:

1. Marie Curie - Polish-born French physicist and chemist best known for her contributions to radioactivity.

2. Jane Goodall - British primatologist and ethologist, widely considered to be the world’s foremost expert on chimpanzees.

3. Maria Mayer - German-born American physicist who received Nobel Prize for suggesting the nuclear shell model of the atomic nucleus.

4. Rachel Carson - American marine biologist and conservationist whose work revolutionzied the global environmental movement.

5. Rosalind Franklin - British biophysicist best known for her work on the molecular structures of coal and graphite, and X-ray diffraction.

6. Barbara McClintock - American scientist and cytogeneticist who received Nobel Prize in 1983 for the discovery of genetic transposition.

7. Rita Levi-Montalcini - Italian neurologist who received Nobel Prize in 1986 for the discovery of Nerve growth factor (NGF)

8. Gertrude Elion - American biochemist and pharmacologist who received the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

9. Elizabeth Blackwell - American physician who was the first woman to become a medical doctor in the United States.

10. Cristiane Nusslein-Volhard - German biologist who received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1991.

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