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=== 2020s ===
2020: The Nigerian Academy of Science elected epidemiologist/parasitologist Ekanem Braide as its first female president.
2020: Brazilian Scientist and Researcher Jaqueline Goes de Jesus, sequenced COVID-19 genome in 12 hours.
2020: Biochemists Jennifer Doudna (American) and Emmanuelle Charpentier (French) received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on CRISPR genome editing tool.
2020: Andrea M. Ghez received the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of a supermassive compact object.
2020: German-Turkish scientist Özlem Türeci is the co-founder and chief medical officer of BioNTech. Her team developed BNT162b2 (tozinameran (INN)), commonly known as the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.
2020: British vaccinologist Sarah Gilbert leads the development and testing of a vaccine which becomes the Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.
2021: Catherine Heymans was appointed as the first female Astronomer Royal for Scotland.
2022: American chemist Carolyn R. Bertozzi received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her development of Bioorthogonal chemistry.
2023: Australian geomicrobiologist Jillian Banfield became the first female recipient of the van Leeuwenhoek Medal, which she received for her studies of complex microbial communities and their interaction with the environment.
2025: South African-born physicist and space scientist Michele Dougherty is appointed Astronomer Royal for the United Kingdom, becoming the first woman appointed to the role in its 350-year history.
2025: American biologist Mary E. Brunkow receives the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her studies of the FOXP3 gene, which was significant to future studies of peripheral immune tolerance. She shared this award with immunologists Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi.

== See also ==
List of female scientists before the 20th century
Lists of women in science
Timeline of women in geology
Timeline of women's education
Timeline of women in computing
Timeline of women in library science
Timeline of women in mathematics in the United States
Timeline of women in mathematics
Timeline of women in science in the United States
Women in physics

== References ==

== External links ==
Famous female scientists: A timeline of pioneering women in science from the website of Dr Helen Klus