Ellen Ochoa Jedidah Isler Annie Jump Cannon Received her B.S. in Physics from San Diego State University, and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. In 1993, aboard the space shuttle Discovery, she became the first Hispanic woman in the world to go to space. She is currently the Director of the Johnson Space Center. Received her B.S. at Norfolk State University. In 2014 she received her Ph.D. in Astrophysics from Yale, becoming the first African American woman to do so. She did her research on hypermassive black holes. She is currently working on the physics of particle jets being emitted by black holes in distant galaxies. She enrolled at Radcliffe College, near Harvard College, which gave her access to the Harvard College Observatory. In 1896, she was hired by Edward C. Pickering as an assistant at the observatory. She is credited with the creation of the Harvard Classification Scheme for stars, which is still in use today. Chien-Shiung Wu (吳健雄) Jocelyn Bell Burnell Ginger Kerrick Born in Jiangsu province in China, she did her undergraduate work there before immigrating to the United States. She earned her Ph.D. in 1940, studying beta decay at UC Berkeley. She became involved in the Manhattan Project at Columbia University, where she remained as a professor for the rest of her career. Graduated from University of Glasgow with a B.S. in Natural Philosophy and attained her Ph.D. from University of Cambridge in 1969. She detected the first discovered pulsar using a four acre radio telescope that she helped build. The 1974 Nobel Prize was awarded for her discovery, but not to her. Attended University of Texas at El Paso, and graduated from Texas Tech with a B.S. in Physics. She wanted to be an astronaut, but could not join the program due to medical issues. In 2001, she instead became the first non-astronaut CapCom. In 2005, she became the first Hispanic NASA flight director. Presented by WIPAA @ SFSU Photo:NASA Photo:Stephen Sartori Photo:Hulton Archive/Getty Images Photo:Smithsonian Institution Photo: Roger W. Haworth Photo:NASA