As a professor of Biomedical Materials and Regenerative Medicine, Dr. Molly Stevens is also the Research Director for Biomedical Material Sciences in the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at Imperial College.
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In 1843, photographer and botanist Anna Atkins became the first person to publish a book illustrated with photographs.
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Before she was enthralling children with tales of a mischievous rabbit Beatrix Potter was delving deep into the world of mycology.
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As an unmarried woman in Victorian England, Marianne North rejected the roles of wife and homemaker. She also rejected the conventions that biological specimens should be painted out of context on simple white backgrounds.
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Mary Cartwright was one of only five women studying mathematics at Oxford after World War I, and she went on to help found chaos theory.
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You might think you know the story of Florence Nightingale as a pioneer in the nursing profession, but did you know she was also a brilliant statistician?
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Today, meet Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, the woman who changed our view of the universe and the first recipient of the Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy.
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Through her work in developmental biology, Anne McLaren helped develop the methods that would allow human in vitro fertilization.
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It’s DNA day, and we’re celebrating the life and work of Rosalind Franklin, who helped discover the molecular structure of DNA, RNA, and even viruses.
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Conservationist and activist Jane Goodall has studied primates in the Gombe National Park in Tanzania since the 1960s and her work has fundamentally changed our understanding of primate behavior.
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