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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 ...
Of the 100 chosen, Albert Einstein was chosen as the Person of the Century, on the grounds that he was the preeminent scientist in a century dominated by science. The editors of Time believed the 20th century "will be remembered foremost for its science and technology", and Einstein "serves as a symbol of all the scientists—such as Fermi, Heisenberg, Bohr, Richard Feynman, ...who built upon ...
Gisèle Sapiro (born 1965) - 19th and 20th century French literature; Alma Söderhjelm (1870 – 1949) – editing the correspondence of the French Queen Marie Antoinette with the Swedish nobleman von Fersen and with some French revolutionaries; See also List of historians of the French Revolution.
The 1999 final poll produced an ordered list of 18 people, 12 of whom were males and 12 of whom were American citizens; the highest ranked non-American and non-male was (Saint) Mother Teresa, at #1. As of 2024, at 78, Bill Clinton is the only surviving person on the list.
20th century – 1940–2025: Meghan Murphy: Canada: 20th century – Journalist; radical feminist; anti-sex industry feminist: 1940-2025: Nalini Nayak: India: 20th century — 1940–2025: Benjamin Nolot: United States: 20th century – Anti-prostitution feminist: 1940–2025: Jerilynn Prior: Canada: 20th century – 1940–2025: Kathy Rudy ...
This is a partial list of 20th-century women artists, sorted alphabetically by decade of birth.These artists are known for creating artworks that are primarily visual in nature, in traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, ceramics as well as in more recently developed genres, such as installation art, performance art, conceptual art, digital art and video art.
The most powerful women in the world — as deemed by Forbes — have been revealed. With the release of their female-specific 2024 Power List, the magazine has crowned 100 women the ultimate ...
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.