•
Nora Lilian Alcock (1874–1972), British plant pathologist •
Alice Alldredge (born 1949), American
oceanographer and researcher of
marine snow, discover of
Transparent Exopolymer Particles (TEP) and demersal hellon •
June Almeida (1930–2007), British
virologist •
E. K. Janaki Ammal (1897–1984), Indian botanist •
Lena Clemmons Artz (1891–1976), American botanist •
Vandika Ervandovna Avetisyan (born 1928), Armenian botanist and
mycologist •
Denise P. Barlow (1950–2017), British
geneticist •
Yvonne Barr (1932–2016), British virologist (co-discovery of
Epstein-Barr virus) •
Lela Viola Barton (1901–1967), American botanist •
Kathleen Basford (1916–1998), British botanist •
Gillian Bates (born 1956), British geneticist (Huntington's disease) •
Valerie Beral (1946–2022), British–Australian epidemiologist •
Grace Berlin (1897–1982), American ecologist, ornithologist and historian •
Agathe L. van Beverwijk (1907–1963), Dutch mycologist •
Gladys Black (1909–1998), American ornithologist •
Idelisa Bonnelly (1931–2022), Dominican Republic marine biologist •
Alice Middleton Boring (1883–1955), American biologist •
Annette Frances Braun (1911–1968), American entomologist, expert on microlepidoptera •
Victoria Braithwaite (1967–2019), British biologist and ichthyologist. •
Linda B. Buck (born 1947), American neuroscientist (Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine 2004 for olfactory receptors) •
Hildred Mary Butler (1906–1975), Australian microbiologist •
Esther Byrnes (1867–1946), American biologist and science teacher •
Bertha Cady (1873–1956), American entomologist and educator •
Audrey Cahn (1905–2008), Australian microbiologist and nutritionist •
Tarsy Carballas (born 1934), Spanish agrarian scientist •
Eleanor Carothers (1882–1957), American zoologist, geneticist and cytologist •
Rachel Carson (1907–1964), American marine biologist and conservationist •
Edith Katherine Cash (1890–1992), American mycologist and lichenologist •
Ann Chapman (1937–2009), New-Zealand biologist and limnologist •
Martha Chase (1927–2003), American molecular biologist •
Mary-Dell Chilton (born 1939), American molecular biologist •
Augusta Christie-Linde (1870–1953), Swedish zoologist •
Theresa Clay (1911–1995), English entomologist •
Edith Clements (1874–1971), American botanist and pioneer of botanical ecology •
Elzada Clover (1897–1980), American botanist •
Gerty Theresa Cori (1896–1957), American biochemist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1947) •
Suzanne Cory (born 1942), Australian immunologist/cancer researcher •
Ursula M. Cowgill (1927–2015), American biologist and anthropologist •
Ellinor Catherine Cunningham van Someren (1915–1988), British medical entomologist •
Janet Darbyshire, British epidemiologist •
Gertrude Crotty Davenport (1866–1946), American zoologist and eugenicist •
Nina Demme (1902–1977), Russian arctic explorer and ornithologist •
Myvanwy M. Dick (1910–1993), British-American zoologist and curator •
Johanna Döbereiner (1924–2000), Brazilian pioneer in soil biology •
Sophie Charlotte Ducker (1909–2004), Australian botanist •
Sylvia Earle (born 1935), American marine biologist, oceanographer and explorer •
Sophia Eckerson (1880–1954), American botanist •
Sylvia Edlund (1945–2014), Canadian botanist •
Charlotte Elliott (1883–1974), American plant physiologist •
Alice Catherine Evans (1881–1975), American microbiologist •
Vera Danchakoff (1879 – about 1950), Russian anatomist, cell biologist and embryologist, "mother of stem cells" •
Rhoda Erdmann (1870–1935), German cell biologist •
Katherine Esau (1898–1997), German-American botanist •
Edna H. Fawcett (1879–1960), American botanist •
Catherine Feuillet (born 1965), French molecular biologist who was the first scientist to map the wheat chromosome 3B •
Victoria Foe (born 1945), American developmental biologist, and research professor at the
University of Washington's Center for Cell Dynamics •
Dian Fossey (1932–1985), American zoologist •
Faith Fyles (1875–1961), Canada's first botanical artist •
Birutė Galdikas (born 1946), German primatologist and conservationist •
Margaret Sylvia Gilliland (1917–1990), Australian biochemist •
Jane Goodall (1934–2025), British biologist, primatologist •
Isabella Gordon (1901–1988), Scottish marine biologist •
Susan Greenfield (born 1950), British neurophysiologist (neurophysiology of the brain, popularisation of science) •
Constance Endicott Hartt (1900–1984), American botanist •
Marguerite Henry (1895–1982), Australian zoologist •
Eliza Amy Hodgson (1888–1983), New-Zealand botanist •
Lena B. Smithers Hughes (1905–1987), American botanist, developed strains of the Valencia orange •
Maria Isabel Hylton Scott (1889–1990), Argentine zoologist and malacologist •
Eva Jablonka (born 1952), Polish/Israeli biologist and philosopher •
AnnMari Jansson (1934–2007), Swedish systems ecologist •
Adele Juda (1888–1949), Austrian neurologist •
Wilhelmine Key (1872–1955), American
geneticist •
Marian Koshland (1921–1997), American immunologist •
Frances Adams Le Sueur (1919–1995), British botanist and ornithologist •
Margaret Reed Lewis (1881–1970), American cell biologist and embryologist •
Maria Carmelo Lico (1927–1985), Brazilian neuroscientist •
Gloria Lim (1930–2022), Singaporean mycologist, first woman Dean of the Faculty of Science,
University of Singapore •
Beatrice Lindsay (1858–1917), English zoologist, writer, and editor •
Liliana Lubinska (1904–1990), Polish neuroscientist •
Marguerite Lwoff (1905–1979), French
microbiologist and
virologist •
Misha Mahowald (1963–1996), American neuroscientist •
Irene Manton (1904–1988), British botanist, cytologist •
Lynn Margulis (1938–2011), American biologist •
Magda Marquet (born 1958), Andorran biotechnologist •
Deborah Martin-Downs, Canadian aquatic biologist, ecologist •
Bettie Sue Masters (born 1937), American biochemist •
Sara Branham Matthews (1888–1962), American microbiologist •
Mary MacArthur (1904–1959), Canadian food scientist, dehydration and freezing of fresh foods •
Barbara McClintock (1902–1992), American geneticist, Nobel prize for Physiology or Medicine 1983 •
Eileen McCracken (1920–1988), Irish botanist •
Ruth Colvin Starrett McGuire (1893–1950), American plant pathologist •
Anne McLaren (1927–2007), British developmental biologist •
Ethel Irene McLennan (1891–1983), Australian botanist •
Eunice Thomas Miner (1899–1993), American biologist, executive director of the New York Academy of Sciences 1939–1967 •
Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909–2012), Italian neurologist (Nobel prize for Physiology or Medicine 1986 for growth factors) •
Marianne V. Moore (graduated 1975), aquatic ecologist •
Ann Haven Morgan (1882–1966), American zoologist •
Effa Muhse (1877–1968), American biologist •
Ann Nardulli (1948–2018), American endocrinologist •
Margaret Newton (1887–1971), Canadian plant phytopathologist and mycologist (pioneer in stem rust research) •
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (born 1942), German geneticist and developmental biologist (Nobel prize for Physiology or Medicine 1995 for
homeobox genes) •
Ida Shepard Oldroyd (1856–1940), American conchologist •
Daphne Osborne (1930–2006), British plant physiologist (plant hormones) •
Janina Oyrzanowska-Poplewska (1918–2001), Polish veterinarian and epizootiologist •
Mary Parke (1908–1989), British marine botanist specialising in phycology, the study of algae •
Jane E. Parker (born 1960), British botanist who researches the immune responses of plants •
Ruth Myrtle Patrick (1907–2013), American botanist, limnologist, and pollution expert •
Eva J. Pell (born 1948), American plant pathologist •
Elisabet Petersson (1873–1919), Swedish zoologist •
Theodora Lisle Prankerd (1878–1939), British botanist •
Isabella Preston (1881–1965), Canadian ornamental plant breeder (botanist) •
Joan Beauchamp Procter (1897–1931), British zoologist (herpetologist) •
Ragna Rask-Nielsen (1900–1998), Danish biochemist •
Julie Hanta Razafimanahaka, Madagascar biologist, conservationist •
F. Gwendolen Rees (1906–1994), British parasitologist •
Jytte Reichstein Nilsson (1932–2020), Danish protozoologist •
Evdokia Reshetnik (1903–1996), Ukrainian zoologist and discoverer of Ukraine's sandy blind mole-rat •
Anita Roberts (1942–2006), American molecular biologist, "mother of TGF-Beta" •
Edith A. Roberts (1881–1977), American botanist and plant ecology pioneer •
Gudrun Ruud (1882–1958), Norwegian zoologist specializing in embryology •
Hazel Schmoll (1890–1990), American botanist •
Eva Schönbeck-Temesy (1930–2011), Austrian botanist of Hungarian descent •
Idah Sithole-Niang (born 1957), biochemist focusing on cowpea production and disease •
Florence Wells Slater (1864–1941), American entomologist •
Margaret A. Stanley, British virologist and epithelial biologist •
Phyllis Starkey (born 1947), British biochemist and medical researcher •
Magda Staudinger () (1902–1997), Latvian-German biologist and chemist •
Sarah Stewart (1905–1976), Mexican American microbiologist (discovered the Polyomavirus) •
Ragnhild Sundby (1922–2006), Norwegian zoologist •
Felicitas Svejda (1920–2016), Canadian botanist (rose breeder) •
Maria Telkes (1900–1995), Hungarian-American biophysicist •
Lois H. Tiffany (1924–2009), American mycologist •
Amelia Tonon (1899–1961), Italian entomologist •
Lydia Villa-Komaroff (born 1947), Mexican American molecular cellular biologist •
Karen Vousden (born 1957), British cancer researcher •
Elisabeth Vrba (born 1942), South-African paleontologist •
Marvalee Wake (born 1939), American biologist researching limbless amphibians, educator •
Erna Walter (1893–1992), German botanist •
Gerharda Wilbrink (1875–1962), Dutch plant pathologist •
Jane C. Wright (1919–2013), American oncologist •
Kono Yasui (1880–1971), Japanese cytologist •
Eleanor Anne Young (1925–2007), American nutritionist and educator •
Mary Sophie Young (1872–1919), American botanist •
Jennie L. S. Simpson (1894 –1977), Canadian-American botanist and geneticist •
Christine Essenberg (1876–1965), Swedish-American
marine zoologist and
women's education advocate. Discovered new
polychaetes and founded the American School for Girls •
Leona Zacharias (1907–1990), American biologist and medical researcher ==Chemistry==