Photo Credits

All photos used on Women in Science are either in the public domain, have been licensed for public use, or have no known copyright restrictions. Please contact me if:

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Currently used images:

Robin E. Bell
• Original Caption: “Dr. Robin Bell, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, shows NSF program manager Tom Wagner data collected at the Antarctic Gamburtsev Province (AGAP) field camp. Dr. Bell is the principle investigator of AGAP, a cooperative effort between seven nations to study the sublacial mountain range.”
• Photo Credit: Chad Naughton and the National Science Foundation
• Photo Source: United States Antarctic Program Antarctic Photo Library
• Additional Information:
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory: Dr. Robin E. Bell
ADVANCE Program at The Earth Institute at Columbia University: Principal Investigator Robin Bell
Earthsky Interview: Robin Bell investigates why polar ice is melting

Mary Plumb Blade
• Original Caption: “In 1946, when this photograph was taken, Mary Blade was the only woman on the Cooper Union engineering faculty (where she initially taught drawing, mathematics and design) and one of few women on any engineering faculty in the United States. Blade was an avid and accomplished mountain climber.”
• Photo Credit: unidentified
• Photo Source: Smithsonian Institution Archives on Flickr
• Additional information:
Chair (pictures Mary Blade in her role as a mechanical engineer who studied sitting)

Rachel Carson
• Original Caption: Rachel Carson at a microscope, circa 1962
• Photo Credit: unidentified
• Photo Source: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
• Additional information:
Rachel Carson Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson

Angy Chambers
• Original Caption: “Angy Chambers, senior wildlife biologist for Environmental Support Contract/Dynamac, holds a juvenile osprey before releasing it at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.”
• Photo Credit: NASA
• Photo Source: NASA Kennedy Center Media Archive Collection

Mary Agnes Chase (1869-1963)
• Original Caption: “Mary Agnes Chase (1869-1963), sitting at desk with specimens. [She] specialized in the study of grasses and conducted extensive field work in South America, often personally funding her research trips, as it was considered inappropriate for women to conduct such work. Chase joined the Department of Agriculture in 1903 as a botanical illustrator and eventually became Scientific Assistant in Systematic Agrostology, 1907; Assistant Botanist, 1923; and Associate Botanist, 1925. In 1935, became Principal Botanist in charge of Systematic Agrostology and Custodian of the Section of Grasses, Division of Plants, United States National Museum.”
• Photo Credit: unidentified
• Photo Source: Smithsonian Institution Archives on Flickr
• Additional Information:
Smithsonian Expeditions People: Mary Agnes Chase
Distinguished Women of Past and Present: Mary Agnes Meara Chase

Émilie du Châtelet (1706-1749)
• Original Caption: Portrait von Émilie du Châtelet (1706-1749)
• Painter: Maurice Quentin de La Tour
• Image Source: Wikipedia
• Additional Information:
Wikipedia: Émilie du Châtelet
Biographies of Women Mathematicians @ Agnes Scott College: Emilie du Châtelet

Grace Qianhong Chen
• Original Caption: Plant physiologist Grace Chen removes castor bean pods to test for genetic transformation.
• Photo Credit: Brian Prechtel
• Photo Source: USDA Agricultural Research Service Image Gallery
• Additional Information:
ARS: Grace Qianhong Chen
“High-Tech Castor Plants May
Open Door to Domestic Production“

Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867-1934) and students
• Original Caption: Mme. Curie and 4 students [between 1910 and 1915]
• Photo Credit: Bain News Service, publisher.
• Photo Source: Library of Congress on Flickr
• Additional Information:
Nobel Prize in Physics 1903: Marie Curie Biography
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1911: Marie Curie Biography
Wikipedia: Marie Curie

Joyce G. Foster
• Original Caption: Chemist Joyce Foster extracts chemicals to determine which plants are safe, palatable, and nutritious for livestock.
• Photo Credit: Scott Bauer
• Photo Source: USDA Agricultural Research Service Image Gallery
• Additional Information:
ARS: Joyce G. Foster, research chemist

Ester Gerston & Gloria Ruth Gordon (1929-2009)
• Original Caption: Two women wiring the right side of the ENIAC with a new program, in the “pre- von Neumann” days. Standing: Ester Gerston Crouching: Gloria Ruth Gorden
• Photo Credit: “U.S. Army Photo” from the archives of the ARL Technical Library.
• Photo Source: U.S. Army Research Laboratory: Historic Computer Images
• Additional Information:
The Women of ENIAC (pdf)
Columbia University Computing History: Programming the ENIAC
Obituary: Gloria Gordon Bolotsky, Programmer Worked on Historic ENIAC Computer

Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1906-1972)
• Original Caption: This photo was taken in 1963, as physicist Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1906-1972) was being escorted by King Gustav Adolf of Sweden to a gala banquet following the ceremony during which she received the Nobel Prize in physics for development of the model of atomic nuclei in which the orbits of protons and neutrons are arranged in concentric “shells”.
• Photo Credit: unknown
• Photo Source: Smithsonian Institution Archives on Flickr
• Additional Information:
Nobel Prize in Physics 1963: Biography of Maria Goeppert-Mayer
Wikipeida: Maria Goeppert-Mayer

Grace Murray Hopper (1906-1992)
• Original Caption: Hopper discusses a phase of her work with a staff member, August 1976. Note “decpack” computer equipment at the right.
• Photo Credit: PH2 David C. MacLean. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, NHHC
• Photo Source: Naval History & Heritage: Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, USNR, (1906-1992)
• Additional Information:
Admiral Grace Murray Hopper: Pioneer Computer Scientist
Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing: About Grace Hopper
Wikipedia: Grace Hopper

Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717)
• Original Caption: Portrait der deutschen Malerin und Entomologin Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717)
• Painter: de Bâle
• Image Source: Wikipedia
• Additional Information:
Special Collections Memorial Library University of Wisconsin-Madison: WOMEN AND NATURE: Maria Sibylla Merian (many drawing images)
Wikipedia: Maria Sibylla Merian

Maria Mitchell (1818-1889)
• Original Caption: Maria Mitchell. Worked under contract to the Coast Survey in mid-1840′s. First woman professional to work for the Federal Government Famous astronomer, computer for the Nautical Almanac, professor at Vassar.
• Painter: H. Dasell
• Image Source: NOAA Photo Library
• Additional Information:
Maria Mitchell Association
Wikipedia: Maria Mitchell

Beryl Nashar
• Original Caption: Dr Beryl Nashar (1923- ), a geologist, was the first female Dean of Science at an Australian university
• Photo Credit: unknown
• Photo Source: State Library of New South Wales on Flickr
• Additional Information:
Interviews with Australian Scientists: Professor Beryl Nashar (2001)

Ellen Swallow Richards with women students at MIT in 1888.
• Original Caption: Ellen Swallow Richards and the Women’s Educational Association (WEA), a Boston women’s group dedicated to the higher education of women, raised funds for a “laboratory, balance and reception rooms” devoted exclusively to instructing women in Chemistry. In return for the support, the Institute changed its admissions policy: Special students shall be admitted..to advanced instruction in Chemistry… without distinction of sex. (1876)
• Photo Credit: unknown
• Photo Source: AMITA: Celebrating 125 Years of Women at MIT
• Additional Information:
Chemical Achievers: Ellen Swallow Richards
AMITA: Celebrating 125 Years of Women at MIT
Ellen Swallow Richards and the Progressive Women’s Movement
Wikipedia: Ellen Swallow Richards

Mayly Sanchez
• Original Caption: Mayly Sanchez, a particle physicist who studies neutrinos at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory, received an Outstanding Technical Achievement Award from the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Award Corporation (HENAAC).
• Photo Credit: George Joch; Argonne National Laboratory.

• Additional Information:
Mayly Sanchez, Assistant Physicist Argonne National Laboratory; Visiting Scholar Harvard University
Iowa State University, Physics & Astronomy: Mayly Sanchez

Nancy Roman
• Original Caption: Dr. Nancy Roman, one of the nations top scientists in the space program, is shown with a model of the Orbiting Solar Observatory (OSO). Dr. Nancy Roman received her PhD in astronomy from the University of Chicago in 1949. In 1959, Dr. Roman joined NASA and in 1960 served as Chief of the Astronomy and Relativity Programs in the Office of Space Science.
• Photo Credit: NASA
• Photo Source: NASA Great Images in NASA Collection
• Additional Information:
Women of NASA: Nancy Roman
Women Astronomers: Nancy Grace Roman
Montgomery College Planetarium: Nancy Roman chat

Melba Roy
• Original Caption: Melba Roy heads the group of NASA mathematicians, known as “computers,” who track the Echo satellites.
• Photo Credit: NASA (1964)
• Photo Source: NASA Great Images in Nasa Collection
• Additional Information:
“Today’s Negro-Americans and Their Contributions to Their Country” (1964)
Computers in Aviation

Sarah Stewart (1905-1976)
• Original Caption: Shows photo of Sarah Stewart. Ms. Stewart was the first to demonstrate virus causing cancer in many species.
• Photo Credit: unknown (1971)
• Photo Source: National Cancer Institute
• Additional Information:
Wikipedia: Sarah Stewart

JoAnne Stubbe
• Original Caption: President Barack Obama presents the National Medal of Science to Dr. JoAnne Stubbe of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009.
• Photo Credit: Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson
• Photo Source: The White House Blog
• Additional Information:
MIT Chemistry: JoAnne Stubbe
MIT TechTV: Interview with JoAnne Stubbe
Wikipedia: JoAnne Stubbe

Sunita Williams
• Original Caption: Astronaut Sunita L. Williams, Expedition 14 flight engineer, participates in the mission’s third planned session of extravehicular activity (EVA) as construction resumes on the International Space Station.
• Photo Credit: NASA
• Photo Source: STS-116 Shuttle Mission Imagry
• Additional Information:
NASA Biography: Sunita Williams
Wikipedia: Sunita Williams
Ada E. Yonath
• Original Caption: Ada Yonath, Weizmann Institute of Science
• Photo Credit:Miki Koren, Weizmann Institute of Science
• Photo Source: Wikipedia
• Additional Information:
2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Ada Yonath Banquet Speech and Nobel Lecture

All female science team for the Tektite II undersea habitat: Renate True, Ann Hartline, Alina Szmant, Margaret Ann Lucas, Sylvia Earle.
• Original Caption: In 1970, all female team performed as well as males in scientific sat mission.
• Photo Credit: F. Schulke; OAR/National Undersea Research Program (NURP); Black Star, Inc.
• Photo Source: NOAA Photo Library
• Additional Information:
Wikipedia: Tektite Habitat
Women in Science: Sylvia Earle: Marine Biologist and Aquanaut
UNCW Professor of Biology: Alina M. Szmant
College of the Mainland (Texas) Science & Math Faculty: Renate True

Astronauts Ellen Ochoa, Joan Higginbotham, Yvonne Cagle, Sally Ride
• Original Caption: Participating in a forum about women in space, Astronauts Ellen Ochoa, Joan Higginbotham and Yvonne Cagle share the podium. They were included in a panel discussing “Past, Present and Future of Space.” Former astronaut Sally Ride is at right.
• Photo Credit: NASA
• Photo Source: NASA Kennedy Center Media Archive Collection
• Additional Information:
NASA Biography: Ellen Ochoa
Wikipedia: Ellen Ochoa
NASA Biography: Joan Higginbotham
Wikipedia: Joan Higginbotham
NASA Biography: Yvonne Cagle
WIkipedia: Yvonne Cagle
NASA Biography: Sally Ride
Wikipedia: Sally Ride
Sally Ride Science