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The first pregnancy achieved through in vitro human fertilisation of a human oocyte was reported in The Lancet from the Monash University team of Carl Wood, John Leeton and Alan Trounson [8] in 1973, although it lasted only a few days and would today be called a biochemical pregnancy.
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 ...
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 ...
Her work contributed to global understanding of climate change, and Saruhashi's Table was used by oceanographers for the next 30 years. [259] 1955–1956: Soviet marine biologist Maria Klenova became the first female scientist to work in the Antarctic, conducting research and assisting in the establishment of the Mirny Antarctic station. [260]
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
Replacement fertility is the total fertility rate at which women give birth to enough babies to sustain population levels, assuming that mortality rates remain constant and net migration is zero. [8] If replacement level fertility is sustained over a sufficiently long period, each generation will exactly replace itself. [8]
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]
On May 4, 2005, the United States Postal Service issued the "American Scientists" commemorative postage stamp series, a set of four 37-cent self-adhesive stamps in several configurations. The scientists depicted were Barbara McClintock, John von Neumann, Josiah Willard Gibbs, and Richard Feynman. McClintock was also featured in a 1989 four ...