A very brief note with names not links, because they take time and no one is reading the articles on science it seems.
First of all and I was really surprised, google doodle celebrated with this as its 2026 topic.
There is some criticism which I partially agree with: "girly colors" and the wave length in a cube looks like a mustache. It also doesn't link to any recent scientists.
So here are a few, if interested there's always wiki.
1. Ilaria Capua-preeminent virologist from Italy, who cracked/discovered the H5N1 avian flu in 2006, which later became zoonotic (jumped to humans) as Capua predicted. Her prior work specialized in vaccinating poultry. She wanted the data shared among scientists around the world, was prevented from doing so, went into politics to change legislation to prevent illness and....
was accused of being a [bio]/#ter....ten year battle wrote a book about it and left for Uni Florida and Texas. This doesn't even come close to what she went through.
2. Charpentier and Doudna who codeveloped the Crispr technology and won the Nobel for it.
3. Lisa Randall mostly known for string theory and hyperspace, who despite holding most of the most important positions in physics still spends the majority of her time being asked what it's like being a female physicist (she hates the question) instead of the research she does.
There's one anecdote about Italian perception. she attended a conference in Italy and could not get in. When she gave them her name repeatedly she was asked when Dr. Lisa (first name Randall) would show up. She was the key note speaker but it was assumed that she was HIS secretary.
4. Roberta Bondar first Canadian female Astronaut at 46, pilot and neurologist and subsequently Head of NASAs medical department. Also published some amazing photography of glaciers.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/sunday/the-sunday-magazine-for-january-16-2022-1.6313448/roberta-bondar-flew-into-space-30-years-ago-and-never-saw-earth-the-same-after-that-1.6313449
might add a few more, but for now only 27% of scientists are female
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