William Gilbert: electricity -- Galileo Galilei: pendulums -- Sir Isaac Newton: gravity and prisms -- Laura Bassi: air and electricity -- Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford): thermodynamics -- Thomas Young: wave theory -- Augustin-Jean Fresnel: light and color -- Michael Faraday: electromagnetic induction -- Pierre Curie: piezoelectricity -- Lise Meitner: nuclear fission -- Albert Einstein: relativity -- Katharine Burr Blodgett: films -- Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: star material -- Mary Golda Ross: aerospace engineering -- Luis Walter Alvarez: bubble chamber -- Ruby Payne-Scott: sunspots -- Chien-Shiung Wu: symmetry -- Warren M. Washington: atmospheric pressure -- Stephen Hawking: black holes -- Christine Darden: aircraft wing design -- Jocelyn Bell Burnell: pulsars -- Valerie L. Thomas: illusion transmitter -- Nadya Mason: conductivity/ carbon -- Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: cosmology -- Burcin Mutlu-Pakdil: galaxies.
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