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Grace Brewster Hopper was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral. One of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, she was a pioneer of computer programming.

British-born American astronomer and astrophysicist who proposed in her 1925 doctoral thesis that stars were composed primarily of hydrogen and helium.

Ada E. Yonath is an Israeli chemist and Nobel laureate crystallographer best known for her pioneering work on the structure of ribosomes. She is the current director of the Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure and Assembly of the Weizmann Institute of Science  

Caroline Lucretia Herschel was a German-born British astronomer, whose most significant contributions to astronomy were the discoveries of several comets, including the periodic comet 35P/Herschel–Rigollet, which bears her name.

Dame Jane Morris Goodall ,  formerly  Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall , is an English  primatologist  and  anthropologist .  She is considered the world's foremost expert on  chimpanzees , after 60 years studying the social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees. Goodall first went to  Gombe Stream National Park  in Tanzania to observe its chimpanzees in 1960.  She is the founder of the  Jane Goodall Institute  and the  Roots & Shoots  programme, and she has worked extensively on conservation and animal welfare issues. As of 2022, she is on the board of the  Nonhuman Rights Project .  In April 2002, she was named a  United Nations Messenger of Peace . Goodall is an honorary member of the  World Future Council .

At the heart of the Open Science movement is the conviction that  Open Science is better science . More rigorous. More inclusive. More efficient. More trustworthy. More reproducible. And more impactful for society. The different aspects of Open Science practice—from open methods and data, to preprints, to ORCID and CRediT, to published peer review—are all part of a mutually reinforcing cycle. Each component works in tandem, and as adoption rises the benefits increase, spiraling ever outward, reshaping our research system and, ultimately, producing   better science .