Wangari Maathai was a Kenyan conservationist, academic, and environmental and women’s rights activist. She was the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize and was a mother of three.
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Mamie Phipps Clark was an American social psychologist and an activist against systemic racism and segregation. She was a mother of two.
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Jewel Plummer Cobb was an American cell biologist and cancer researcher widely recognised for her pioneering melanoma studies. She was a mother of one.
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Maryam Mirzakhani was considered one of the greatest mathematicians of her generation. She was mother to one daughter.
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Helen O. Dickens was an American physician and an advocate for women’s health care. She was also a mother of two children.
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Rebecca Cole was an American physician and advocate for healthcare equity and access for marginalised communities, particularly Black Americans. She was a mother of five.
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Katherine Johnson was an American mathematician who did critical orbital calculations for US spaceflights and was also one of the first African-American NASA employees. She was mother to three daughters.
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Vera Rubin was an American astronomer who pioneered research on galaxy rotation rates and provided the first unequivocal evidence for the existence of dark matter. She was also a mother of four children
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Rosalyn Yalow was an American medical physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the development of the radioimmunoassay. She was a mother of two children.
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Youyou Tu is a Chinese biochemist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering a drug that cures malaria. She is a mother of two daughters.
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Jane Goodall is a famous primatologist and conservationist who combined parenting with her fieldwork studying chimpanzees. She is a mother of one son.
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