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Emmy NoetherImage Source: Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons Emmy Noether was a prominent German mathematician, most famous for discovering Noether’s theorem – which proved...
Women’s History Month 2021
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Rachel Parsons was born to the wealthy Parsons family. They were a family of engineers: Her father, Sir Charles Parson, was inventor of the Compound Steam Turbine and founder of CA Parsons and Company, which manufactured turbines for...
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Betty HolbertonImage Source: Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Despite originally training as a journalist, Betty Holberton was chosen to be a...
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Angela Clayton. Image Source: FletcherMall, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Angela Clayton was a physicist by profession and was an active trans rights campaigner in...
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Growing up in Manila, Fe del Mundo grew up in relatively privileged circumstances, but even so, the childhood mortality rate in the...
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Dorothy Hodgkin. Image Source: University of Bristol via Wikimedia Commons Historically, X-ray crystallography is a field of science that welcomed women, beginning with...
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Mary Somerville. Image Source: Painting by Thomas Phillips, retrieved from National Galleries Scotland Mary Somerville is actually the first person...
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Chien-Shiung Wu. Image source: 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, Smithsonian Institution Archives Chien-Shiung Wu’s research in experimental nuclear physics...
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Maria Kirch (nee Winkelmann) is credited as the first woman to discover a comet. In her early years, she was...
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Vera RubinImage from NASA via Wikimedia Commons Vera Rubin’s research was instrumental in discovering evidence for the presence of Dark...
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Lise Meitner Image Source: Acc. 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, Smithsonian Institution Archives Lise Meitner, an Austrian-Swedish physicist, was...
