Katherine Johnson, NASA Physicist.

All of these are from Seeing Science, and there’s so much there! They also have a marvelous timeline, which starts in 1021:

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Alhazan (965–1040), an Arab physicist, publishes the 7-volume Book of Optics, in which the pinhole camera and camera obscura are described. Leonardo da Vinci doesn’t show up until 1508.

There’s so much to explore! Seeing Science. * Seeing Science at Hyperallergic.