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Women Scientists from Scotland. Subcategories. This category has the following 14 subcategories, out of 14 total. ...
scientist carbon dioxide discoverer: Robert Blair: 1748–1828 astronomer inventor of the aplanatic lens: John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr: 1880–1971 nutritionist: Nobel Peace Prize winner David Brewster: 1781–1868 scientist Royal Scottish Society of Arts founder Thomas Brisbane: 1773–1860 astronomer John Campbell Brown: 1947-2019 astronomer
Christina Cruikshank Miller FRSE (29 August 1899 – 16 July 2001) was a Scottish chemist and one of the first five women (also the first female chemist) elected to the Royal Society of Edinburgh (7 March 1949). [1] Christina Miller was deaf from childhood and also lost the sight of one eye in a laboratory explosion in 1930.
Williamina Paton Stevens was born in Dundee, Scotland, at 86 Nethergate, [3] on 15 May 1857 to Mary Walker and Robert Stevens, a carver and gilder. She was one of six children. [4] Her younger sister, Johanna Stevens, would also later work at Harvard College Observatory. [5] Starting at the age of fourteen, she went to work as a pupil-teacher.
Science portal; Spain portal; Subcategories. This category has the following 14 subcategories, out of 14 total. ... 21st-century Spanish women scientists (1 C, 23 P) A.
Some names such as Marie Curie and Ada Lovelace are widely known, many other women have been active inventors and innovators in a wide range of interests and applications, contributing important developments to the world in which we live. [2] [3] The following is a list of notable women innovators and inventors displayed by country.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:21st-century Scottish scientists. It includes Scottish scientists that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
Marion Gilchrist (5 February 1864 – 7 September 1952) was the first female graduate of the University of Glasgow, one of the first two women to qualify in medicine from a Scottish university; [1] [2] and a leading activist in the Women's suffrage Movement in Scotland. In recognition of her achievements she has been honoured in a number of ways.