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Black inventor who patented the durable carbon filament for lightbulbs, transforming early electrical engineering. L(5),L(7)
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First African-American woman in space; a physician and engineer who investigated the physics of microgravity. M(3),J(7)
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Black mathematician whose sophisticated modeling of the Earth's shape became the absolute basis for modern GPS. G(5),W(4)
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The first American woman in space and a celebrated LGBTQ+ icon; she held a Ph.D. in astrophysics. S(5),R(4)
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First Black woman to earn an MIT physics Ph.D.; her theoretical work on materials enabled touch-tone signaling. S(7),J(7)
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Openly queer Pakistani-American astrophysicist who played a leading role in the historic detection of gravitational waves. N(6),M(9)
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Pakistani theoretical physicist who won a Nobel Prize for mathematically unifying electromagnetism and the weak nuclear force. A(5),S(5)
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Black NASA physicist and mathematician whose precise orbital trajectory calculations mapped the path for the first Moon landing. K(9),J(7)
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British LGBTQ+ genius whose early work in mechanical computation laid structural foundations for modern computing and quantum theory. A(4),T(6)
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Brilliant Chinese-American experimental physicist who disproved a major law of conservation during nuclear beta decay. C(5),S(6),W(2)
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Indian physicist who pioneered wireless communication and microwave optics years before Marconi's radio patents. J(8),B(4)
