Hedy Lamarr: Spread spectrum is a technique for digital and radio frequency data transmission.
Barbara McClintock: several discoveries in the field of genetic transposition.
Dorothy Hodgkin: Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964.
Katherine Johnson: trajectory of Apollo 11
Margarita Salas: some researches in the field of molecular biology
Mae Jemison: the first African-American woman to travel to space.
Tu Youyou: malaria treatment
Gertrude Elion: Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine 1988