Astrophysics

Perhaps the diversity of astrophysics is more well-known — at least in pop-culture — thanks to recent films highlighting the Hidden Figures behind some of the early US space flights. But these contributions are not the only ones worth retelling, with the relatively new field of physics owing many of its advancements to minority physicists and their work.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell - discovered radio pulsars

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin - proposed that stars were composed of H and He

Katherine Johnson - calculated orbital mechanics for first US crewed spaceflights