Name
|
Chapter and year
|
Notability
|
References
|
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
|
Honoary, 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
|
Honoray, 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 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]
|