Mary Engle Pennington had many achievements during her 40-year career with the USDA. Her pioneering research on sanitary methods of processing, storing, and shipping food led to achievements such as the first standards for milk safety, as well as standards for refrigeration of food products. Mary Engle Pennington was born in Nashville, Tennessee to Henry …
Category Archives: Historical Women Scientists
Ada Yonath
Dr. Ada Yonath is known for her pioneering work on the structure of the ribosome, in which she won the 2009 Nobel Prize Award for, and developing a crystallography technique known as cryocrystallography.1 Yonath describes her childhood memories as “centered on my father’s medical conditions alongside my constant desire to understand the principles of the …
Katherine Goble Johnson
You may have first heard about Katherine Goble Johnson when the movie Hidden Figures was released in late 2016. Born before the time of the internet and laptops, she was known as a “computer” at Langely Research center. When she started, her job was to analyze, but eventually, her calculations led to sending Americas first …