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10 Women Who Advanced Our Understanding of Life on Earth: Media

Boldly going where no woman had gone before.

Videos

Hear Sylvia Earle talk about her life, work, and challenges as an American oceanographer and explorer
Learn about the pioneering life and work of American oceanographer and explorer Sylvia...
Video: © World Science Festival (A Britannica Publishing Partner)

Images

Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall sits with a chimpanzee at Gombe National Park in Tanzania.
Michael Neugebauer/the Jane Goodall Institute
Ichthyosaurus skeleton
Tourists walking in front of a fossil discovered by Mary Anning, at the Natural History...
© Salajean/Dreamstime.com
Rachel Carson
Biologist and author Rachel Carson, c. 1962.
Photo Researchers, Inc./Alamy
Margaret Bryan Davis
Paleoecologist Margaret Bryan Davis, known for her pioneering research in plant pollen....
University of Minnesota, College of Biological Sciences
Wangari Maathai
Kenyan environmental activist Wangari Maathai, 2004.
Eskinder Debebe/UN Photo
Jane Goodall
British ethologist Jane Goodall with a chimpanzee at the Tchimpounga Chimpanzee Rehabilitation...
Fernando Turmo/the Jane Goodall Institute
Mary Leakey
Archaeologist and paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey.
Daily Mail/Rex/Alamy
Ruth Patrick
Biologist and educator Ruth Patrick, 1975.
© Jerry Freilich (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Vandana Shiva
Indian scientist and activist Vandana Shiva, 2017.
Frank Schwichtenberg
Margaret Morse Nice
Ornithologist Margaret Morse Nice clucking to a nest of baby sparrows, Chicago, September...
© Al Fenn—The LIFE Picture Collection/Shutterstock.com