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Great Women in Science and Mathematics
So far, this is still a list, but I'm working on developing further pages.
What I want to know is, what was her life like? What was going on in the world around her? How did people think of the world in
her time and place? When it comes right down to it, what made her stand out in history? In Science? What made her special?
- Joy Adams
- the "Witch" of Agnesi (1718-1799)
- Leah Allen
- Caroline Still Anderson
- Florence Bascom
- harriet Bigelow
- Elizabeth Blackwell
- Emilie de Breteuil, Marquise du Chatelet (1706-1749)
- mary Emma Byrd
- Emma Carr
- Rachel Carson
- Marie Curie
- Florence Hawlley Ellis
- Gertrude Elion
- Dian Fosey
- Sopie Germain (1776-1831)
- Jane Goodall
- Marianne Grunberg-Manago
- Julia Brainerd Hall
- Olive c. Hazlett
- Caroline Herschel (1750-1848)
- Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (?)
- Hypatia(370-415)
- Cynthia Irwin-Williams
- Sonya Corvin-Krukovsky Kovalevsky (1850-1891)
- Marjorie Ferguson Lambert
- Mayme I. Logsdon
- Antonia Maury
- Barbara McClintock (1902-1992)
- Lise Meitner
- Maud Menten (1879-1960)
- Helen A. Merrill
- Maria Mitchell
- Ida Noddack
- Emmy (Amalie) Noether (1882-1935)
- Margaretta Palmer
- Sally Ride
- Mary Emily Sinclair
- Mary Fairfax Somerville (1780-1872)
- Helen Swartz
- Trutola of Salerno
- Anna Pell Wheeler
- Mary Whitney
- Anne S. Young
These women have been critical to Public Health
- Clara Barton
- Florence Nightingale
- Margerate Sanger
Reading List
- Curie, Eve, _Madame curie: a Biography_, De Capo Press abridged republication of edition published in New York in 1937. reprinted by arrangement with doubleday & Co.. 1986.
- Dzielska, Maria, translated by Lyra,F., __Hypatia of Alexandria__, Harvard University Press; Cambridge MA, London England. 1995.
- Osen, Lynn M., __Women in Mathematics__, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England. 1974.
This page is a work in progress, so you may want to come back to visit now and then.
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