The first woman to win a Nobel Prize, Marie Curie coined the term radioactivity and discovered Radium and Polonium. See her story and watch the Chemours science series at https://chem.rs/2zBygIX.
The first black woman to hold a professorship at any US college, Josephine Silone Yates eventually went on to head the college science department. See her sotry and watch the Chemours science series at https://chem.rs/2zBygIX.
The refrigeration engineer and creator of the cold chain, Mary Engle Pennington was one of the famous faces of chemistry. See her story and watch the Chemours science series at https://chem.rs/2zBygIX.