@Sheril I'm convinced that this is the case in every important event/deed/discovery. We need to find and lift up all the names, in addition to Eunice Foote:
Virginia Hall, WWII spy
Rosalind Franklin, DNA
Dorothy Horstmann, polio vaccine
Hedy Lamarr, wireless communications (radio guidance)
Alice Ball, leprosy cure
Vera Rubin, discoverer of Dark Matter
Dr. Grace Murray Hopper, first computer programming language
Jocelyn Bell Burnell, discoverer of Pulsars (neuron stars)
Lise Meitner, nuclear fission
Dr. Chieng-Shiung Wu, Manhattan project, overthrew a previously accepted law of physics
Anna Arnold Hedgeman, organized March on Washington
Katherine Johnson, guidance and navigation calculations for NASA
Nettie Stevens, discoverer of gene-determined biological sex