Women microbiologists

Emmy Klieneberger-Nobel (25 February 1892 – 11 September 1985) was a German Jewish microbiologist.

June Lascelles (23 January 1924 – 15 July 2004) was an Australian microbiologist.

Margaret Elaine di Menna ONZM (8 July 1923 – 24 March 2014) was a New Zealand microbiologist.

Usha Vijayaraghavan (born. 1961) is on the faculty of the Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, IISc, Bangalore.

Mary Stuart MacDougall (born 1885) was an American biologist who studied protozoology.

Liliane Aimée Ackermann (née Weil) (1938–2007) was a French Jewish Community pioneer, leader, writer, and lecturer.

Alice Catherine Evans (January 29, 1881 – September 5, 1975) was an American microbiologist.

Ruth Milne Hall (born 1945) AM, FAAS, FAAM is an Australian microbiologist whose research on mobile genetic elements in bacteria identified the mechanism for spread of antibiotic resistance in bacteria.

Lilian Jane Gould (1861–1936), also known as Lilian J.

Bettie M. Steinberg holds multiple positions within the North Shore-LIJ Health System: Chief Scientific Officer for The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Dean of the Elmezzi Graduate School of Molecular Medicine (both in Manhasset, NY), and Chair of the Department of Molecular Medicine at the Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine in Hempstead, NY.

Elaine Ingham is an American microbiologist and soil biology researcher and founder of Soil Foodweb Inc.

Thida Thavornseth (Thai: ธิดา ถาวรเศรษฐ, rtgs: Thida Thawonset, Thai pronunciation: [tʰídaː tʰǎːwɔːnsèːt]; born January 25, 1944) is a Thai microbiologist and political activist.

Gladys Rowena Henry Dick (December 18, 1881 – August 21, 1963) was an American physician who co-developed a vaccine for scarlet fever with her husband, George F.

Julie A. Theriot (born 1967) is a microbiologist, professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine, and heads the Theriot Lab.

Lida Holmes Mattman Ph.

Sophia Hennion Eckerson (c. 1880 – July 19, 1954) was an American botanist and microchemist.

Ruth Milne Hall, AM, FAAS, FAAM (born 6 August 1945) is an Australian microbiologist whose research on mobile genetic elements in bacteria identified the mechanism for spread of antibiotic resistance in bacteria.

Helen Matusevich Oujesky (August 14, 1930 – February 1, 2010) was an American professor of microbiology at the University of Texas, San Antonio.

Hazel A. Barton is an English born microbiologist and geologist and cave diving explorer, interested in extremophile microorganisms.

Susan Gottesman is microbiologist at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), which is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

A. Oveta Fuller is an Associate Professor of Microbiology at University of Michigan Medical School and specializes in research of the Herpes simplex virus as well as HIV/AIDS.

Una M. Ryan (née Morgan; born 1966) is a biochemist from Ireland, researching parasites and infectious agents in Australia, where she lives.

Jane Grimwood is a British microbiologist who later moved to the United States settling in the state of Alabama.

Edith Neumann (May 26, 1902–June 29, 2002) was an Austrian microbiologist.

Mary Ingraham Bunting (July 10, 1910 – January 21, 1998) was an influential American college president; Time profiled her as the magazine's November 3, 1961, cover story.

Ann C. Palmenberg is a professor of virology and biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Dr. Anna Wessels Williams (1863–1954) worked as a bacteriologist at the first municipal diagnostic laboratory in the United States, helped develop the diphtheria antitoxin and was the first woman to be elected chair of the laboratory section of the American Public Health Association.

Joan Lyn Slonczewski is an American microbiologist at Kenyon College and a science fiction writer who explores biology and space travel.

Linda Silber Birnbaum is an American toxicologist, microbiologist and the current director of the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences, as well as the National Toxicology Program, positions to which she was appointed on January 18, 2009.

Rebecca Craighill Lancefield (January 2, 1895 – March 1, 1981) was a prominent American microbiologist.

Agnes J. Quirk (fl. 1920s) was an American bacteriologist, plant pathologist, and inventor.

Hilary Margaret Lappin-Scott (born 1955) is a British microbiologist who studies the function of microbial biofilms.

Gladys Lounsbury Hobby (November 19, 1910 – July 4, 1993), born in New York City, was an American microbiologist whose research played a key role in development and understanding of antibiotics.

Dr. Margaret Jane Pittman (1901–1995) was a pioneering bacteriologist whose research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on typhoid, cholera, and pertussis (whooping cough) helped generate the development of vaccinations against these diseases as well as others.

Leonora A. Hohl (9 March 1909 – 30 June 1997) was a microbiologist from the College of Agriculture at the University of California, Berkeley.

Polly Roy OBE is a professor and Chair of Virology at The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Claire M. Fraser PhD (born 1955) is an American microbiologist who launched a new field of study, microbial genomics, and through her research and leadership in this field, has contributed to understanding of the diversity and evolution of microbial life on Earth.

Suniti Solomon (1938 or 1939 – 28 July 2015) was an Indian physician and microbiologist who pioneered AIDS research and prevention in India after having diagnosed the first Indian AIDS cases in Chennai in 1985.

Hattie Elizabeth Alexander (April 5, 1901 – June 24, 1968) was an American pediatrician and microbiologist.

Fanny Hesse (Born Angelina Fanny Elishemius, June 22, 1850 – December 1, 1934) is best known for her work in microbiology alongside her husband, Walther Hesse.

Pascale Cossart (born 21 March 1948) is a bacteriologist at the Pasteur Institute of Paris, and the foremost authority on Listeria monocytogenes, a deadly and common food-borne pathogen responsible for encephalitis, meningitis, bacteremia, gastroenteritis, and other diseases.

Rita Rossi Colwell (born November 23, 1934 in Beverly, Massachusetts) is an environmental microbiologist and scientific administrator.

Dr. Mary A. Voytek is a microbiologist with the United States Geological Survey (USGS) in Reston, Virginia, and director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Astrobiology Program at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.

Alexandra (Alex) Z.

Mary Barber (3 April 1911 – 11 September 1965) was a British pathologist and bacteriologist who studied antibiotic resistance in bacteria.

Elizabeth Lee Hazen (August 24, 1885 in Mississippi – June 24, 1975) is most known for her contribution to the development of nystatin.

Handelsman earned her Bachelor of Science degree in agronomy from Cornell University in 1979 and her Ph.