Mary C. Pangborn (August 13, 1907 – February 20, 2003) was an American scientist and writer of science fiction.

She graduated from high school at age 14, and entered Smith College a year later.

While there she received the Frances A. Hause prize for excellence in chemistry and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

[1] She discovered the biologically important lipid cardiolipin[2] and published a number of pieces of short fiction in noted anthologies and in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.

[3] Science fiction author Edgar Pangborn was her younger brother.