Hypatia (sometime between 350 and 370 - 415 C.E), mathematician, astronomer, inventor |
Caroline Herschel (1750 – 1848), astronomer, comet sweeper and 1st professional salaried female scientist |
Ada, Countess Lovelace, (1815-1852), world's first programmer |
Florence Nightingale (1820 – 1910), nursing, statistics and data visualization pioneer |
Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevski (1850-1891), mathematician and writer |
Marie SkÅ‚odowska-Curie (1867 – 1934), physicist, chemist, double Nobel Laureate |
Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868 – 1921), astronomer whose work set the scale of our Universe |
Lise Meitner (1878 – 1968) and Nuclear Fission |
Inge Lehmann (1888 – 1993), seismologist who discovered the Earth's inner core |
Chien-Shiung Wu (1912-1997) and the Violation of Parity |
Frequency-hopping with Hedwig Keisler, aka Hedy Lamarr (1914-2000) |
Jocelyn Bell (Burnell) (born 1943) and the LGM-1, astrophysicist who discovered pulsars |
Mae Jemison (born 1956), astronaut, chemical engineer, biotech innovator, dance and choreographer |
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