She died in 2017 and left behind a legacy many would envy. From a March 8, 2022 book review by Jess Wade for Physics World (Note: Links have been removed),

Mildred Dresselhaus, materials-science pioneer and nanotechnology trailblazer, should be a household name. Her contributions to science were immense: unravelling the electronic structure of carbon and paving the way for the discovery of fullerenes, carbon nanotubes and graphene. She was the first woman to be appointed Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which is the highest title that is awarded there. She was also the first woman to win a National Medal of Science in the category of engineering (awarded by the US president) and the first individual winner of the Kavli Prize in Nanoscience.

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Dresselhaus’ resilience and determination meant that she succeeded in a world that was not welcoming to her. At the time, a lot of people still believed that “a woman’s place is in the home”. Her contributions to nanoscience were nothing short of incredible. She studied thermoelectric materials, as well as the magnetic, optical and electrical properties of semimetals, creating novel nanomaterials that provided the foundation for lithium-ion batteries, fullerenes and carbon nanotubes. Her attention to detail and creativity allowed her to formulate the design rules for nanomaterials, with a focus on sustainability.

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Now, there is a book, “Carbon Queen: The Remarkable Life of Nanoscience Pioneer Mildred Dresselhaus” (2022) by Maia Weinstock. Slate.com features a March 13, 2022 posting of an excerpt from the book,

The late 1940s encompassed a unique period for women in science in the United States. After scores of women had entered scientific, technological, engineering, and mathematical fields for the first time to support the war effort, American women were routinely discouraged from pursuing STEM [science, technology, engineering, and mathematics] careers in the postwar era. Many top colleges and universities refused to admit women as students until the late 1960s or early 1970s. Women of color were particularly hard to find in labs and in scientific journals during the mid-twentieth century.

This was the climate in which Mildred “Millie” Dresselhaus found herself when she first enrolled as an undergraduate at Hunter College in New York City in 1948. Dresselhaus would eventually become a decorated MIT physicist, making highly influential discoveries about the properties of materials. Based on her far-reaching foundational research, scientists and engineers have made enormous advances at the nanoscale—discovering structures like spherical carbon “buckyballs,” cylindrical carbon nanotubes, and 2D carbon sheets known as graphene that have made products from aircraft to cellphones stronger, lighter, and more efficient. …

There are postings here about Mildred Dresselhaus and her work with the last in 2017 being an RIP posting.