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While the timeline primarily focuses on women involved with natural sciences such as astronomy, biology, chemistry and physics, it also includes women from the social sciences (e.g. sociology, psychology) and the formal sciences (e.g. mathematics, computer science), as well as notable science educators and medical scientists. The chronological ...
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 ...
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]
She also fought for equality for women and helped create support systems for female scientists in academia. She's now known as the " Queen of Carbon "! (Fun fact: Dresselhaus was interviewed by ...
garden designer, artist 1843-11-29 1932-12-08 United Kingdom: Gertrude Simmons Burlingham: early 20th-century American mycologist 1872-04-21 1952-01-11 United States: Gloria Galeano Garcés: Colombian scientist 1958-04-22 2016-03-23 Colombia: Grace Evelyn Pickford: Biologist 1902 1986 United States: Greta Stevenson: New Zealand mycologist 1911 ...
Chung Kwang Hwa (born 1948), physicist and president of the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Korea Basic Science Institute, and Korean Vacuum Society Jun Mikyoung , statistician Kim Eun-Ah (born 1975), condensed matter physicist
Researchers collected the data on many differences between women and men in science. Rossiter found that in 1966, thirty-eight percent of female scientists held master's degrees compared to twenty-six percent of male scientists; but large proportions of female scientists were in environmental and nonprofit organizations. [178]
L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science laureates (123 P) M. Members of the Society of Woman Geographers (67 P) P. Women physicians (32 C, 51 P) Y. Yoruba women ...