* Born October 17, 1956
* First African American woman to travel into space
* Also a physician, engineer, and astronaut
Shirley Ann Jackson
* Born August 5, 1946
* First African American woman to earn a doctorate in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
* Also a theoretical physicist, educator, and president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Valerie Montgomery Rice
* Born October 11, 1958
* First African American woman to become president and CEO of the Morehouse School of Medicine
* Also a physician and scientist specializing in cancer research
Gladys West
* Born October 27, 1930
* Mathematician and computer programmer who played a key role in developing the Global Positioning System (GPS)
* Also a member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority
Katherine Johnson
* Born August 26, 1918
* Mathematician who worked at NASA and played a key role in calculating the trajectories of the Apollo missions to the moon
* Also a member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority
Donna Shirley
* Born March 20, 1929
* Physicist who worked at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and played a key role in developing the first atomic clocks
* Also a member of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority
Ethel Weare
* Born March 14, 1922
* Mathematician and computer programmer who worked on the Manhattan Project and later at NASA
* Also a member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority
Jeannette E. Brown
* Born May 10, 1920
* Chemist and educator who was a pioneer in the field of nuclear chemistry
* Also the first African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California
Marjorie Lee Browne
* Born September 9, 1914
* Mathematician and educator who was the first African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan
* Also a member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority