[rosalind dna]

How about Mary Douglas Leaky. She was a British archaeologist who, while at a dig in Tanzania in 1978, found footprints that were 3.5 million years old. They proved that early man was walking upright long before scientists had predicted.

Is Mary Douglas Leaky related the ecologist and sometime archeologist (sp) Richard Leaky as his sister or mother or wife?

[rosalind dna]

How about Mary Douglas Leaky. She was a British archaeologist who, while at a dig in Tanzania in 1978, found footprints that were 3.5 million years old. They proved that early man was walking upright long before scientists had predicted.

Is Mary Douglas Leaky related the ecologist and sometime archeologist (sp) Richard Leaky as his sister or mother or wife?

Mary nee Douglas Leaky is Richard Leaky's mother.
Both worked and lived in Kenya and worked as far as I'm aware for conservation in that African country.

[Kerry]

I interviewed a really inspiring lady last week - Missy Cummings. She used to be a fighter pilot in the US Navy and was one of the first women to be allowed to fly jets - pretty awesome!

Now she has her own human and automation lab at MIT where  - amongst other things - she's been building apps for the iPhone to let people fly miniature exploration devices.

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/profile-cummings-0405.html [nofollow]
http://web.mit.edu/aeroastro/labs/halab/index.shtml [nofollow]

[imatfaal]

Hypatia of Alexandria - mathematician, philosopher, educator and practical scientist in 350-415 CE. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypatia

[infopioneers]

We'd be really interested to see what you think of the campaign we're currently running on behalf of the BCS: newbielink:http://pioneers.bcs.org/ [nonactive]

2 of the 5 pioneers highlighted in the campaign are women.
The first is Ada Lovelace (who someone mentions further up) the second is Hedy Lamarr... what do you think?

I honestly didn't realise that Hedy was anything other than an actress until I started working on this!  I'd be really interested in your feedback

[Dr.Rubzee]

Marie Curie polish born cancer reasearcher who won a nobel prize in Physics

[imatfaal]

Marie Curie also won a Nobel in Chemisty - which puts her into a very select group.  I think only Linus Pauling has also won Nobels in different fields.  Her husband shared her Physics, her daughter and son in law shared a Chemistry Nobel and her other son in law accepted the Nobel Peace Prize as head of Unicef - quite a bright family overall.

[Kerry]

I was inspired by this thread to write about several famous female scientists:
Rosalind Frankin: http://www.labnews.co.uk/laboratory_article.php/5828/5/rosalind-franklin-%E2%80%93-forgotten-scientist [nofollow]

and Marie Curie: http://www.labnews.co.uk/laboratory_article.php/5945/5/radioactivity-and-the-woman-who-discovered-it [nofollow]

I was quite disgusted by research from the Royal Society that the majority of the British public couldn't name a famous female scientist http://royalsociety.org/Scientists-trump-popstars-as-role-models-for-girls/ [nofollow]

I may borrow a few other suggestions for other inspirational female scientists for more in the series!

[pennyt]

Very informative , I love to read great womens

[BioWizard]

Barbara McClintock (1902 - 1992).
United States botanist and geneticist best known for the discovery of 'jumping genes', mobile genetic elements (transposons) that move along a chromosome and exert control over its genes. Awarded 1983 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine. She's one of them.

[widereader]

My professor Josette Biyo was honored by Intel as a planet was named after her---Asteroid Biyo.  She won the Intel Excellence Award. She used to teach Biology and now she is the Director of Philippine Science HIgh School-Western Visayas Campus.