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
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...
Betty HolbertonImage Source: Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Despite originally training as a journalist, Betty Holberton was chosen to be a...
Angela Clayton. Image Source: FletcherMall, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Angela Clayton was a physicist by profession and was an active trans rights campaigner in...
Growing up in Manila, Fe del Mundo grew up in relatively privileged circumstances, but even so, the childhood mortality rate in the...
Dorothy Hodgkin. Image Source: University of Bristol via Wikimedia Commons Historically, X-ray crystallography is a field of science that welcomed women, beginning with...
Mary Somerville. Image Source: Painting by Thomas Phillips, retrieved from National Galleries Scotland Mary Somerville is actually the first person...
Chien-Shiung Wu. Image source: 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, Smithsonian Institution Archives Chien-Shiung Wu’s research in experimental nuclear physics...
Maria Kirch (nee Winkelmann) is credited as the first woman to discover a comet. In her early years, she was...
Vera RubinImage from NASA via Wikimedia Commons Vera Rubin’s research was instrumental in discovering evidence for the presence of Dark...
Lise Meitner Image Source: Acc. 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, Smithsonian Institution Archives Lise Meitner, an Austrian-Swedish physicist, was...
