Biology
This animal conservationist and author raised an orphaned lioness cub, Elsa, and eventually released her back in the wild.
Who is Joy Adamson?
Called "the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began" by Albert Einstein, she escaped Germany when the Nazis took over and taught in America for several years before her early death.
Who is Emmy Noether?
This prominent physician was active in the March of Dimes campaign to eradicate polio; however, she was most noted for her development of a special grading scale to determine the health of newborn babies.
Who is Virginia Apgar?
Known primarily for her cosmetics company, this woman scientist first got her start formulating products prior to sale.
Who is Elizabeth Arden?
This mystic or prophet and visionary wrote books on spirituality, visions, medicine, and nature, as well as composing music and carrying out correspondences with many notables of the day.
Who is Hildegard of Bingen?
This famous primatologist is remembered for her study of mountain gorillas and her work to preserve habitat for gorillas in Rwanda and Congo. Her work and murder by poachers were documented in the 1985 film "Gorillas in the Mist."
Who is Dian Fossey?
An English mathematician who is credited with inventing the first rudimentary system of computation that would later be used in computer languages and programming, her experiments with Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine led to her developing the first algorithms.
Who is Augusta Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace?
Famous for her Civil War service, this self-taught nurse eventually founded the American Red Cross.
She was the first scientist to isolate polonium and radium; she established the nature of radiation and beta rays. She was the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize and the first person to be honored in two different scientific disciplines: physics (1903) and chemistry (1911). Her work led to the development of the X-ray and research into atomic particles.
Who is Marie Curie?
With responsibility for running a household and raising 12 children, especially after her husband's death in 1924, she established the Motion Study Institute in her home, applying her learning both to business and to the home. She also worked on rehabilitation and adaptation for the disabled. Two of her children wrote of their family life in "Cheaper by the Dozen."
Who is Lillian Gilbreth?
Because she was a woman, the Geological Society of London would not allow this paleontologist to present any of her work, which included finding a complete ichthyosaur skeleton when she was 12.
Who is Mary Anning?
A mathematician and novelist, she was the first woman to hold a university chair in 19th-century Europe and the first woman on the editorial staff of a mathematical journal.
Who is Sofia Kovalevskaya?
Awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology, she helped scientists understand the body's metabolism of sugars and carbohydrates, and later illnesses where such metabolism was disrupted, and the role of enzymes in that process.
Who is Gerty T. Cori?
She worked in ancient Alexandria as an alchemist, experimenting with distillation. Two of her inventions, the tribokos and the kerotakis, became standard tools used for chemical experiments and alchemy. Some historians also credit her with discovering hydrochloric acid.
Who is Mary the Jewess?
This woman scientist perfected permanent-press cotton. She held many patents for processes to treat fibers so that they would produce wrinkle-free and durable clothing. She worked for the United States Department of Agriculture for much of her career.
Who is Ruth Benerito?
A zoologist who graduated with a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, she produced a laboratory manual on vertebrate anatomy, and when she could live on the royalties, she moved on to a writing career, focusing on invertebrates. Her five-volume work on invertebrates was influential among zoologists.
Who is Libbie Hyman?
The author of the first mathematics textbook penned by a woman, she was a pioneer in calculus in the 1700's.
Who is Maria Agnesi?
This Nobel-Prize winning biologist teamed up with her mentor, Luc Montagneir, and discovered HIV (human immunodeficiency virus).
Who is Francoise Barre-Sinoussi?
The first woman to earn a scientific doctorate awarded at Oxford University and an astronomer, she worked on classifying and cataloging stars, discovering five novae.
Who is Annie Jump Cannon?
This prominent British woman was the first licensed physician in Britain. She was also a political advocate in the women's suffrage movement and eventual mayor of a city in England.
Who is Elizabeth Garrett Anderson?
This biologist created a technique for studying bacteria and viruses called replica plating. She also discovered that bacteria mutate randomly, explaining the resistance that is developed to antibiotics, and discovered the lambda phage virus.
Who is Esther Lederberg?
This mathematician and physicist was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963 for her work on the nuclear shell structure.
Who is Maria Goeppert Mayer?
This physician and gynecologist in ancient Athens had to dress like a man in order to practice medicine.
Who is Agnodice?
Professor of anatomy at the University of Bologna, she is most famous for her teaching and experiments in Newtonian physics. She was appointed in 1745 to a group of academics by the future Pope Benedict XIV.
Who is Laura Maria Caterina Bassi?
She was part of the team that developed software for the Centaur rocket stage. She was a mathematician, computer scientist, and rocket scientist, one of the few African-Americans in her field, and a pioneer in the use of the first computers.
Who was Annie Easley?