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It is an annual award given to an undergraduate student in the US, Canada, or Mexico who demonstrates superior mathematics research. [91] [89] 2004: American Alison Miller became the first female gold medal winner on the U.S. International Mathematical Olympiad Team. [92] [93]
Alison Miller became the first female gold medal winner on the U.S. International Mathematical Olympiad Team. [ 32 ] 2006: Stefanie Petermichl , a German mathematical analyst then at the University of Texas at Austin, became the first woman to win the Salem Prize , an annual award given to young mathematicians who have worked in Raphael Salem ...
In March 1873, the United States Congress passed the Comstock Act, which made it illegal to distribute birth control information or contraceptives through the U.S. postal system. [189] Margaret Sanger was an influential campaigner for birth control rights, specifically for poor women, in the 1910s.
A conical hennin with black velvet lappets (brim) and a sheer veil, 1485–90. The hennin (French: hennin / ˈ h ɛ n ɪ n /; [1] possibly from Flemish Dutch: henninck meaning cock or rooster) [N 1] was a headdress in the shape of a cone, steeple, or truncated cone worn in the Late Middle Ages by European women of the nobility. [2]
Official portrait of Kamala Harris, 2021. 1756: Lydia Taft is the first woman to vote legally in Colonial America. [1]1821: Emma Willard founds the Troy Female Seminary in New York; it is the first school in the country founded to provide young women with a college-level education.
Mauricio Toro/Getty Images. 5. Eloise. Eloise has French and German roots and dual meanings of “brave warrior” and “healthy and wide.” It’s also the name of the mischievous and charming ...
Sofya Kovalevskaya is known for her contributions to differential equations, and gives her name to the Cauchy-Kovalevskaya theorem, the fundamental existence result for analytic partial differential equations. Margarethe Kahn (1880–c. 1942), one of the first female German doctorates, contributed to Hilbert's sixteenth problem
History portal; This category holds female rulers, whether monarchs, other female heads of state, regents or female heads of government. For women who ruled in their own rights as monarchs, go to the monarch-subcategory. For women who ruled as regents, go to the regent-subcategory.