Kathrine Switzer (born in 1947) is famous for being the first woman to run the Boston Marathon as a registered participant in 1967. During the event, while she was running, Jock Semple, the race organizer, jostled her and tried to rip off her bib number. The next day, her achievement was featured in newspapers around the world and became a symbol of women's liberation.

Marietta Blau (1894–1970) was an Austrian physicist known for her photographic methods for detecting charged particles. She was nominated twice by Erwin Schrödinger for the Nobel Prize in Physics, but without success. In 1937, she exhibited photographic plates in Austria and observed the first trace of a nuclear reaction (the explosion of an atomic nucleus) triggered by cosmic rays. This work was awarded the Lieben Prize in 1937.

Considered by Albert Einstein as "the most considerable creative mathematical genius produced since women gained access to higher education", Emmy Noether (1882–1935) was one of the great mathematicians of the 20th century. She succeeded in mathematically proving the link between time symmetry and the conservation of energy. She is considered the mother of modern algebra.

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) was an American poet. Her work, considered a classic of literature, was not published during her lifetime (not even a dozen poems). They are unique for their time: composed of very short lines, they have no titles and frequently use imperfect rhymes as well as unconventional punctuation.

Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868–1921) was an American astronomer. Her important discovery concerning the periodic variations in brightness of Cepheid variables allowed astronomers to measure vast distances in the universe, including those separating Earth from very distant galaxies. The achievements of the American astronomer Edwin Hubble, who proved the expansion of the universe, were made possible by Leavitt's research.

Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) was a pioneer in computer science. She is primarily known for having created the first true computer program, during her work on an ancestor of the computer: Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine.
It is in her honor that the programming language designed for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) between 1977 and 1983 was named 'Ada'.

Ilona Elek (1907-1988) is considered one of the greatest foil fencers in the history of fencing. She was a three-time world champion and a two-time Olympic medalist, winning gold in 1936 and again in 1948 at the age of 41.

Laura Bassi (1711–1778) was an Italian mathematician and physicist. She focused her research on electricity and motion. In 1732, she became the first woman in the world to earn a doctorate in science and the first female professor of physics. Her lectures were renowned and attracted students from all over Europe. She made a significant contribution to disseminating Newtonian ideas in Italy.

Asherah is a goddess. Mesopotamian and then Canaanite, a mother goddess in ancient Semitic religions, she is presented in biblical and extra-biblical texts as the wife of the supreme god. Over the course of history, the original polytheism evolved into monolatry, then into monotheism, and Asherah was forgotten.

Maryam Mirzakhani (1977–2017) was an Iranian mathematician who immigrated to the United States. After completing a dissertation considered a masterpiece, she became a lecturer at Princeton and later at Stanford. She was the first woman to receive the Fields Medal for her work on the geometry of surfaces. Her research made significant contributions to several fields, including algebraic topology and geometry.

Sophie Germain (1876-1831) was entirely self-taught in mathematics. She corresponded with her peers (Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Carl Friedrich Gauss) under a male pseudonym and was the first woman to win a prize from the French Academy of Sciences, in 1816 for a paper on the mathematical theory of the vibrations of elastic blades.

Grace Hopper (1906–1992) was an American mathematician, computer scientist, and military officer to whom we owe the development of the first modern programming languages ​​and the compilation process. She participated in the programming of the world's first computer, the Mark I, a general-purpose calculator programmable by punched cards, developed during World War II. She designed the first compiler in 1951 (A-0 System) and the COBOL programming language in 1959.

Daisy Dussoix (1936-2014) was a Swiss molecular biologist and microbiologist renowned for her discoveries on the phenomenon of DNA restriction-modification. Her research contributed to the discoveries that earned her doctoral advisor the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1978.

Sosipatra of Ephesus was a remarkable Neoplatonist philosopher of ancient Greece (4th century AD), renowned for her extraordinary intelligence, mystical gifts, and role as a teacher of philosophy. It is written that even male philosophers admired her wisdom and often sought her advice.

Jocelyn Bell, born in July 1943, is a British astrophysicist. She is known for her discovery of pulsars, neutron stars that spin very rapidly while emitting significant electromagnetic radiation. However, it was her doctoral advisor who received the Nobel Prize in 1974 for this discovery.