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  2. List of female scientists in the 20th century - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. List of women innovators and inventors by country - Wikipedia

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    Women inventors have been historically rare in some geographic regions. For example, in the UK, only 33 of 4090 patents (less than 1%) issued between 1617 and 1816 named a female inventor. [ 1 ] In the US, in 1954, only 1.5% of patents named a woman, compared with 10.9% in 2002. [ 1 ]

  4. Marie Curie - Wikipedia

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    Marie Curie's birthplace, 16 Freta Street, Warsaw, Poland. Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie [a] (Polish: [ˈmarja salɔˈmɛa skwɔˈdɔfska kʲiˈri] ⓘ; née Skłodowska; 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934), known simply as Marie Curie (/ ˈ k j ʊər i / KURE-ee; [1] French: [maʁi kyʁi]), was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on ...

  5. A tale worth telling of four women scientists whose names you ...

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    In “Sisters in Science,” Olivia Campbell tells the intertwined stories of Meitner and three other notable, but lesser known, women physicists from Germany: Kohn, Hertha Sponer and Hildegard ...

  6. List of inventions and discoveries by women - Wikipedia

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    Her most-famous contribution to modern physics was discovering the nuclear shell of the atomic nucleus, for which she won the Nobel Prize in 1963. Slow light Lene Hau led a Harvard University team who used a Bose–Einstein condensate to slow down a beam of light to about 17 metres per second , and, in 2001, was able to stop a beam completely.

  7. Women in physics - Wikipedia

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    Five women have won the Nobel Prize in Physics, awarded annually since 1901 by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. [1] These are: [2] 1903 Marie Curie: "in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel" [3]

  8. List of female Nobel laureates - Wikipedia

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    "for her efforts for democracy and human rights, focusing especially on the struggle for the rights of women and children." [65] 12 2004 Wangarĩ Maathai: 1 April 1940 Tetu, Nyeri, Colony and Protectorate of Kenya [r] 25 September 2011 Nairobi, Kenya "for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace." [66] 13 2011: Ellen ...

  9. List of female scientists in the 21st century - Wikipedia

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    Linda Spilker (born 1955), American planetary scientist; Lucy-Ann McFadden (born 1952), astronomer; Maria Zuber (born 1958), American planetary scientist; Martha P. Haynes (born 1951), American astronomer specializing in radio astronomy; Pamela Gay (born 1973), American astronomer; Rachel Zimmerman (born 1972), Canadian-born space scientist