Caroline Herschel is on record as the first woman to do this.
Give birth to quintuplets
Discover a comet
Serve as captain of a ship
Become a pharmacist
Discover a comet. Herschel discovered eight comets. Born in Germany, she pursued her career in astronomy in England. Surviving smallpox at age 3 and typhus at age 10, she went on to live 97 years, from 1750 to 1848.