Mary Jackson
Credit: NASA
Occupation: Mathematician & Engineer
Year born: 1921
Research Areas: Aerospace Engineering, Aerodynamics
Careers
Credit: NASA
Arthur Walker Jr.
Credit: NASA, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè
Visual Archives, Physics Today Collection
Occupation: Physicist
Year born: 1936
Research Areas: Solar Physics, Rockets
Tim Peake
Credit: NASA
Occupation: Astronaut
Year born: 1972
Research Areas: Flight Dynamics, Aviation
Charles Bolden Jr.
Credit: NASA
Occupation: Astronaut & Administrator of NASA
Year born: 1946
Research Areas: Space Exploration, New Technology
Jocelyn Bell-Burnell
Credit: Wikimedia (User: Anrie)
Occupation: Astrophysicist
Year born: 1943
Research Areas: Radio-Astronomy, Pulsars
Adriana Ocampo
Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani
Occupation: Planetary Geologist
Year born: 1955
Research Areas: Meteorite Craters, Planets, Moons
Edward Ching-Te Chao
Occupation: Geologist
Year born: 1919
Research Areas: Meteorite impacts
"People don't believe, but you do your hard work. It takes time to gradually convince them. You always have to find new, better evidence."
Julia Slingo
Credit: The Royal Society
Occupation: Meteorologist & Climate Scientist
Year born: 1950
Research Areas: Weather Forecasting, Tropical Climates
Aomawa Shields
Credit: NASA
Occupation: Astronomer and Science Communicator
Research Areas: Astrobiology, Exoplanets
Piers Sellers
Credit: NASA
Occupation: Astronaut, Meteorologist
Year born: 1955
Research Areas: Climate Science
