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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 ...
This list may not reflect recent changes. * Index of women scientists articles; 0–9. ... List of female scientists in the 21st century; 150 women in 150 words; A.
In one of her research papers on fertility and conception, Barton reports successfully treating over 1,000 women using AID, 600 cases between 1944 and 1954 and another 431 women from 1955 to the end of December 1962. [5] Thousands more women were treated at her clinic for AIH. [6]
It includes scientists that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. The main article for this category is Women in science . See also: Category:Organizations for women in science and technology
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 simultaneously became the first female scientist ever elected a member of the congress. [296] 1975: Indian geneticist Archana Sharma received the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, the first female recipient in the Biological Sciences category. [297] [298] 1975: Female officers of the British Geological Survey no longer had to resign upon ...
"Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics". UCLA. Archived from the original on 1 August 2013; Herzenberg, Caroline L. (1986). Women scientists from antiquity to the present : an index : an international reference listing and biographical directory of some notable women scientists from ancient to modern times. West Cornwall, CT: Locust ...
Enid Charles (1894–1972), British pioneer in demography and population statistics and expert on fertility rates; Helen C. Chase, president of Statistics Section of American Public Health Association; Valérie Chavez-Demoulin, Swiss expert on extreme events and risk management