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Gisela Kaplan, ornithologist and primatologist noted for her research in animal cognition, communication and vocal behaviour of primates and specifically native Australian birds Kate Leslie (born 1962), medical researcher specializing in anaesthesia
This is a historical list dealing with women scientists in the 20th century. During this time period, women working in scientific fields were rare. Women at this time faced barriers in higher education and often denied access to scientific institutions; in the Western world, the first-wave feminist movement began to break down many of these ...
In August 2019, Goodall was honoured for her contributions to science with a bronze sculpture in Midtown Manhattan alongside nine other women, part of the Statues for Equality project. [75] In 2020 she advocated for ecocide (mass damage or destruction of nature) to be made an international crime, stating “The concept of Ecocide is long overdue.
Colombian scientist 1958-04-22 2016-03-23 Colombia: Grace Evelyn Pickford: Biologist 1902 1986 United States: Greta Stevenson: New Zealand mycologist 1911-06-10 1990-12-18 New Zealand: Grethe Rytter Hasle: Norwegian scientist 1920-01-03 2013-11-09 Norway: Gulielma Lister: Lister, Gulielma (1860–1949), mycologist and naturalist 1860-10-28 1949 ...
The nature of the chemical bonds had been a mystery for many years. Alongside Marjory Stephenson, Kathleen Lonsdale was one of the first two women to be elected a Fellow of The Royal Society. Structure of vitamin B12 The chemical structure was determined by Dorothy Hodgkin using crystallographic data.
List of female Breakthrough Prize laureates; List of female Clarivate Citation laureates; List of female mass spectrometrists; List of women climate scientists and activists; List of women in leadership positions on astronomical instrumentation projects; List of women neuroscientists; List of women who obtained doctoral degrees before 1800
L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science laureates (122 P) M. Members of the Society of Woman Geographers (67 P) P. Women physicians (32 C, 55 P) Y. Yoruba women ...
1853: Jane Colden was the only female biologist mentioned by Carl Linnaeus in his masterwork Species Plantarum. [2] 1889: Mary Emilie Holmes became the first female Fellow of the Geological Society of America. [3] 1889: Susan La Flesche Picotte became the first Native American woman to become a physician in the United States. [4] [5]