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Where every image came from.

Each portrait below is in the public domain or published under a Creative Commons licence. Where a licence requires attribution, the photographer or holding institution is named. If you hold rights to any image here and want it removed, please tell me and I will take it down.

Maria Sibylla Merian Jacob Marrel
Licence: Public domain · file on Wikimedia Commons
Dorothea Dix Unknown author · This image is available from the United States Library of Congress 's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3a12244 . This tag does not indic
Licence: Public domain · file on Wikimedia Commons
Eunice Newton Foote Eunice Newton Foote · Formal citation: Foote, Eunice, 1856. "Circumstances affecting the heat of the Su
Licence: Public domain · file on Wikimedia Commons
Hertha Ayrton Héléna Arsène Darmesteter · Art UK : entry 195150
Licence: Public domain · file on Wikimedia Commons
Nettie Stevens Carnegie Institution of Washington (according to the back of the photograph, visible at the download page) Restored by Adam Cuerden . · TriCollege Libraries Digital Collections Local identifier: PA_00387; PID: bmc:3778. From the Bryn Mawr College Photo Archives.
Licence: Public domain · file on Wikimedia Commons
Hilma af Klint According to Moderna Museet the photographer is unknown · and Moderna Museet
Licence: Public domain · file on Wikimedia Commons
Henrietta Swan Leavitt Unknown author Unknown author · From here , see also [1] . Popular Astronomy , v. 30, no. 4, April 1922.
Licence: Public domain · file on Wikimedia Commons
Lise Meitner Harris & Ewing
Licence: Public domain · file on Wikimedia Commons
Emmy Noether Unknown author Unknown author Publisher: Mathematical Association of America [3] , Brooklyn Museum [4] , Agnes Scott College [5] , [6] · Emmy Noether (1882-1935) , Archived
Licence: Public domain · file on Wikimedia Commons
Alice Ball Unknown author Unknown author
Licence: Public domain · file on Wikimedia Commons
Ann Lowe Mardcarr · Own work
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · file on Wikimedia Commons
Mária Telkes New York World-Telegram and the Sun staff photographer · Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection.
Licence: Public domain · file on Wikimedia Commons
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Smithsonian Institution/Science Service, restored by Adam Cuerden · Air and Space Museum online gallery
Licence: Public domain · file on Wikimedia Commons
Mary Golda Ross ARTwrite2014 · Own work
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · file on Wikimedia Commons
Chien-Shiung Wu Smithsonian Institution · Flickr : Chien-shiung Wu (1912-1997)
Licence: No restrictions · file on Wikimedia Commons
Hedy Lamarr Unknown author Unknown author · eBay
Licence: Public domain · file on Wikimedia Commons
Katherine Johnson NASA
Licence: Public domain · file on Wikimedia Commons
Marie Tharp AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Gift of Bill Woodward, USNS Kane Collection
Licence: CC0 · file on Wikimedia Commons
Rosalind Franklin MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology · From the personal collection of Jenifer Glynn.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · file on Wikimedia Commons
Esther Lederberg Esther M. Zimmer Lederberg
Licence: Attribution · file on Wikimedia Commons
Stephanie Kwolek Staff photographer · Science History Institute
Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0 · file on Wikimedia Commons
Vera Rubin Photograph by Mark Godfrey, courtesy of AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Gift of Vera Rubin
Licence: Attribution · file on Wikimedia Commons
Tu Youyou Bengt Nyman · Own work
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · file on Wikimedia Commons
Jocelyn Bell Burnell Launch_of_IYA_2009,_Paris_-_Grygar,_Bell_Burnell.jpg : Astronomical Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic derivative work: Anrie ( talk ) · Launch_of_IYA_2009,_Paris_-_Grygar,_Bell_Burnell.jpg
Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0 · file on Wikimedia Commons

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