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Women inventors have been historically rare in some geographic regions. For example, in the UK, only 33 of 4090 patents (less than 1%) issued between 1617 and 1816 named a female inventor. [1] In the US, in 1954, only 1.5% of patents named a woman, compared with 10.9% in 2002. [1]
Two other inventors, Robert Douglass and John Apjohn, also patented windscreen cleaning devices in the same year. Car heater Margaret A. Wilcox invented an improved car heater, which directed air from over the engine to warm the chilly toes of aristocratic 19th-century motorists, in 1893.
American women inventors (218 P) Pages in category "Women inventors" The following 127 pages are in this category, out of 127 total.
It includes American inventors that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "American women inventors" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 218 total.
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Ulrike Beisiegel (born 1952), German biochemist, researcher of liver fats and first female president of the University of Göttingen; Sibylle Günter (born 1964), theoretical physicist researching tokamak plasmas; Hanna von Hoerner (1942–2014), astrophysicist; Eva-Maria Neher (born 1950), German biochemist, microbiologist; Nina Papavasiliou ...
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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 ...