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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 ...
2019: Karen Uhlenbeck won the Abel Prize for "her pioneering achievements in geometric partial differential equations, gauge theory, and integrable systems, and for the fundamental impact of her work on analysis, geometry and mathematical physics." [73] She is the first woman to win the prize. [74]
Women in science : antiquity through the nineteenth century : a biographical dictionary with annotated bibliography (3. print. ed.). Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-15031-X. Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey (2003). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives From Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century. Routledge.
The presence of women in science spans the earliest times of the history of ... she conducted pioneering research on radioactive decay and was the first woman to ...
Legacy of pioneering women at NASA continues to inspire today. On June 18, 1983, a new era in NASA spaceflight began when Sally Ride became the first American woman to fly into space, but the ...
Marie Curie (1867–1934), pioneering research into radioactivity. 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]
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]
Graduate Women in Science formerly known as Sigma Delta Epsilon, is an international organization for women in science. [1] It was established in 1921 at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, United States as a women's fraternity. [1] Following are some of its notable members.