List of fictional female scientists in SF
Scientists
Scientists by name
- Dr. Antonia Almiramez (Ann, Toni) in Dance of Knives by Donna McMahon
- Dr. Louise Banks in "Story of Your Life", by Ted Chiang
- Diane Bates, oceanographer, in the Ocean Girl TV series
- Diana Brackley, John Wyndham, Trouble With Lichen (discovers a substance that prolongs life)
- Emily Brand, in Lightsource by Bari Wood (1984) (a spy-fi in which a physicist develops a fusion reactor)
- Fred Burkle on Angel (physicist)
- Elizabeth Butler (archaeologist), Pat Murphy, The Falling Woman
- Dr. Susan Calvin in Asimov's Foundation series
- Samantha Carter in "Stargate SG-1" (is there anything she can't do?)
- Anne Clewiston, in The Clewiston Test (1976) by Kate Wilhelm
- Professor Zephyr Duquesne, cultural archaeologist in Natural History by Justina Robson
- Zoe Heriot in "Doctor Who" (mathematician)
- Martha Jaques (antagonist) in The Rose by Charles Harness (1953)
- Dewey Kerrigan (inventor) in The Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages (2006; non-SFnal historical novel)
- Theodora Leslie (biologist) in The Rains of Eridan by H. M. Hoover (1977)
- Dr. Beatrice Liddle in "Chocky's Challenge" (astronomer)
- Dr. Mary Malone in The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
- Dr. Allison Mann in Y: The Last Man - a geneticist
- Albertine Meyer in "Chocky's Children" and "Chocky's Challenge" (mathematician)
- Jeanie Miller in "Stargate Atlantis" (physicist)
- Dr. Anna Quibler in Forty Signs of Rain by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Dr. Dorcas Rae in Gaia's Toys by Rebecca Ore
- Renee in "Division by Zero", by Ted Chiang
- Romana in "Doctor Who" (Time Lady)
- Dr. Ellie Sattler in "Jurassic Park" dir. by Steven Spielberg - played by Laura Dern
- Dana Scully in "The X-Files" (medical doctor; but repeatedly describes herself as a scientist)
- Dr. Anna Senoz in Life by Gwyneth Jones
- Dr. Elizabeth Shaw in "Doctor Who" (polymath)
- Diana Skouris in "The 4400"
- Marie-Josèphe St. Croix, in Vonda McIntyre, The Moon and the Sun (1997)
- Susan Storm in Fantastic Four (2005 film) (a geneticist) and in Ultimate Fantastic Four (a biotech)
- Jane Summers, in story by John Wyndham
- Takver in The Dispossessed, by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Ida Teeter in "Sick Girl" (lesbian entomologist)
- Anna van Tuyl (psychologist) in The Rose by [[Charles Harness (1953)
- Lily Unser in "Matryoshka" ("Millennium (TV series)" 3x14 (1999)) - a brilliant biologist
- Barbara Urie, in Minus Time by Catherine Bush (1993) (sort of present day)
- Kitti Ping Yung and her granddaughter Wind Blossom in Dragonsdawn by Anne McCaffrey
Scientists by work
- Female Victorian scientist in "Dear Froggy" by Patricia Anthony in Eating Memories
- Catherine Asaro, Sunrise Alley
- Gregory Benford, COSM
- Protagonist of Cyteen by C. J. Cherryh is a female geneticist.
- Julie E. Czerneda's Survival (Species Imperative #1)
- Greg Egan, Distress
- Greg Egan, Teranesia
- Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain's "Sultana's Dream" (1905) depicts Ladyland, where the peaceful revolution that overturned purdah was led by lady scientists
- Lesbian scientists in "Time Gypsy" by Ellen Klages
- Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
- Jonathan Lethem, As She Climbed Across the Table
- See also "The Gods of Reorth" in Elizabeth A. Lynn's collection, The Woman Who Loved the Moon and Other Stories
- scientist in Karen Marie Christa Minns, Calling Rain
- Protagonist of Naomi Mitchison's Memoirs of a Spacewoman (1962)
- Marge Piercy, He, She, and It
- Story by Cherry Potts
- Contact by Carl Sagan (book and movie)
- Bones of the Earth by Michael Swanwick
- Connie Willis, Passage
- Protagonist of Outbreak (movie)
- "The Saint" (spyfiction: cold fusion invented by a woman scientist, who the spy/thief falls in love with)
- "Mimic" dir. by Guillermo del Toro - a team of scientists includes Mia Sorvino as an entomologist
- Dr. Zira in Planet of the Apes is a psychologist and veterinarian
- Grace in How I Saved the World (1985) by Philip Slater
Inventors
Inventors by name
- Violet Baudelaire in the "Series of Unfortunate Events" by Lemony Snicket
- Tinker by Wen Spencer
Inventors by work
- Ecotopia Emerging by Ernest Callenbach (young girl invents efficient solar battery & does not patent it, distributing it freely instead)
Further reading
- Women in Science bookshelf
- Women in Science blog
- "Fictional Female Scientists" in mystery as well as SF