document updated 11 years ago, on Oct 30, 2012

I'm planning to put up some photos of female engineers in my cube at work, to serve as role models.

Allison Randal — Perl hacker extroidinaire
Marie Curie — first woman to win the Nobel Prize (1911) — physics and chemistry
Sally Ride — first American female in space (1983) — physics
Eileen Collins — first female Shuttle commander (1999), test pilot, flight instructor — operations research
Susan Kilrain — second female Shuttle pilot (1997), flight instructor — aerospace engineering
Pamela Melroy — second female Shuttle commander (2000), test pilot — geoscience
Peggy Whitson — first female ISS commander (2007), holds record for most EVAs and most time spent in EVA of all female astronauts — biochemistry
the various folks who work on the Mars Curiosity Mission

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