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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 ...
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]
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 ...
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.
Elizabeth Gershoff, American professor of human development and family sciences; Candace S. Greene (graduated 1976), American anthropologist, National Museum of Natural History; Jane Grimwood, microbiologist, from 2000 worked on the Human Genome Project at Stanford; Lisa Gunaydin, neuroscientist and professor
Danielle Bassett (born 1981), physicist and systems neuroscientist applying network science to the study of learning in the human brain; Amy Bastian (born 1968), neuroscientist contributing to the neuroscience of sensorimotor control; Diana Bautista (fl. 2000s), neuroscientist known for her work on the molecular mechanisms underlying itch ...
Both women and men are capable of performing extraordinary feats, but there are some things the females of our species do better. Here are 7 of them, according to science. Number 7. Seeing colors ...
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 doctoral degrees before 1800