Erin Jackson was the first Black female athlete of Team USA to win gold in speed skating at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and the first to win the race since 1994. She also competed in the 2026 Winter Olympics for Team USA.

Nettie Stevens was a groundbreaking geneticist who discovered sex chromosomes.

Mary Agnes Chase advanced American botany through groundbreaking grass taxonomy, influential publications, and significant field research across the Americas. 

American doctor Mary Putnam Jacobi was not only a trailblazer in medicine in the late 1800s and early 1900s. She was also a women’s rights activist who conducted extensive, groundbreaking research to produce pivotal medical arguments challenging misconcep