Sarah Frances Whiting (1847-1927) was a true pioneer in astronomy, and her work stands today, as she was one of the founders as well as the first director of the observatory at Wellesley College. She made a career before that was considered proper for women.
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Actually, Sarah Frances Whiting was the first one to establish a program of astronomy in laboratory instruction for women in the United States. However, she also delved into another - and then quite new - field of science: X-rays. She started out only a few weeks after Wilhelm Röntgen annonced the discovery of this kind of rays which to me is a proof that she was of a genuine scientific mind, ready to study something that not many have done before. That turns her into a "double pioneer": A physicist, which she was, as well as an astronomer, which she also was.
In her long career she introduced many women to physics and astronomy even though both these fields of science were almost entirely associated with men at the time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Fr
https://pubs.aip.org/aapt/ajp/article/91/6/417/2891436/Sarah-Frances-Whiting-pioneer-of-laboratory
https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1927PA.....35..539C
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