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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. Timeline of women in science - Wikipedia

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    This is a timeline of women in science, spanning from ancient history up to the 21st century. 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 ...

  4. List of inventions and discoveries by women - Wikipedia

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    The hot comb was an invention developed in France as a way for women with coarse curly hair to achieve a fine straight look traditionally modeled by historical Egyptian women. [44] However, it was Annie Malone who first patented this tool, while her protégé and former worker, Madam C. J. Walker, widened the teeth. [45]

  5. Women in science - Wikipedia

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    The formation of the Kovalevskaia Fund in 1985 and the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World in 1993 gave more visibility to previously marginalized women scientists, but even today there is a dearth of information about current and historical women in science in developing countries.

  6. 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 ...

  7. Timeline of women in science in the United States - Wikipedia

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    1893: Florence Bascom became the second woman to earn her Ph.D. in geology in the United States, and the first woman to receive a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. [6] [7] Geologists consider her to be the "first woman geologist in this country [America]." [8] 1896: Florence Bascom became the first woman to work for the United States ...

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

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    Lim Hyesook (born 1963), electronics engineer, served as Minister of Science and ICT; Oh Hee, (born 1969), mathematician; Paik Hanhee, experimental quantum computing researcher; Park So-Jung (born 1972), chemist; Park Sukyung (born 1973), mechanical engineer, served as Science and Technology Advisor to President Moon Jae-in from 2020 to 2022

  9. Category:Lists of women scientists - Wikipedia

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    List of British women physicians; 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 ...