Women Artists and Scientists Profiled in Women Who Could...and Did: Lives of 26 Exemplary Artists and Scientists, a book by Karma Kitaj, Ph.D. 

NANCY BUCHER, Physician researcher 
  
PHYLLIS CURTIN, Opera soprano, performer and Master Teacher 
  
LUCILE FESSENDEN DANDELET, Photo-journalist and activist 
  
HELEN DAVIES, Microbiology professor and researcher 
  
DORIOT ANTHONY DWYER, Principal flutist for major orchestra 
  
GLADYS FRIEDLER, Pharmacology researcher 
  
ELDA HARTLEY, Filmmaker 
  
LILLI HORNIG, Science educator and advocate for women in science 
  
VILMA HUNT, Professor of Environmental Health 
  
BOJAN HAMLIN JENNINGS, Chemistry professor and researcher 
  
VERA KISTIAKOWSKY, Physics professor and researcher 
  
CAROLYN KIZER, Pulitzer-prize winning poet, teacher 
  
MAXINE KUMIN, Pulitzer-prize winning poet, teacher 
  
SYLVIA OLDEN LEE, Musical coach and collaborator 
  
SUSAN LEEMAN, Professor, Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics 

SYDNEY LEONARD, Choreographer and dancer
  
ELMA LEWIS, Founder, School of Fine Arts, Nat’l Center of Afro-American Artists   

LOUISA MATTHIASDOTTIR, Painter 
  
MAUD MORGAN, Painter, graphic artist 
  
OLIVE PIERCE, Documentary photographer and social activist 
  
MARIANNA PINEDA, Sculptor, teacher 
  
CECILY SELBY, Science writer, administrator, educator 
  
MARTHA THOMAS, Industrial chemist and manager 
  
ANNAMARIA TORRIANI-GORINI, Biology professor and researcher 
  
JUNE WAYNE, Painter, graphic artist, writer, teacher, administrator 
  
ROSALYN YALOW, Medical physicist, Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine  

And here’s the story of filmmaker Elda Hartley, who was still making films when she died at age 90.