Top 10 most beautiful female scientists

It is generally believed that smart women, firstly, are rare. Secondly, they are, to put it mildly, not quite attractive. Or at least an amateur. Or so: their external data do not always correspond to generally accepted ideas about beauty. Maybe. But not always.

In any case, our top 10 easily breaks down these banal ideas.

Amy Mainzer, astronomer. Deputy Scientific Director of the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer project and Chief Researcher in the NEOWISE project for the study of minor planets. Her research interests are asteroids, brown dwarfs, planetary atmospheres, dust disks, star formation, design and creation of ground-based and space-based instruments.

Clio Cresswell, mathematician at the University of Sydney. Author of the book "Mathematics and sex".

Tali Sharot, neuroscientist. Studies brain processes that affect emotional perception and memory.

Rhonda Freeman. Neuropsychologist.

Laura Aul. Professor of English language and literature, writer.

Lisa Randall. Doctor of Theoretical Physics at Harvard University, expert in molecular physics and cosmology.

Maria Spiropoulou. Specialist in experimental physics of the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva (CERN). Participated in the creation of the Large Hadron Collider. Can you repeat the phrase: "With regard to Bohr's complementarity, I would say that faith and evidence are partly mutually exclusive: if we believe in something, then we don't need proof, and if we have proof, then we don't need to believe"? And she can even understand what she said.

Olivia Judson is an evolutionary biologist and science journalist. She graduated from Stanford University and received a PhD in biology from Oxford. He is the author of many articles in The Economist, Nature, Science, The Guardian and the book "Every Creature has a pair."

Ceska Burlson is an outstanding scientist in the field of marine biological research.

Francisca Michor is an evolutionary biologist.