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Grace Oladunni Taylor (born 1937), Nigerian chemist, 2nd woman inducted into the Nigerian Academy of Science; Omowunmi Sadik (born 1964), chemist, educator; Margaret Adebisi Sowunmi (born 1939), botanist and environmental archaeologist; Felicity Okpete Ovai (born 1961), engineer, civil servant, politician
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]
A taxon (e.g., species or genus; plural: taxa) named in honor of another entity is an eponymous taxon, and names specifically honoring a person or persons are known as patronyms. Scientific names are generally formally published in peer-reviewed journal articles or larger monographs along with descriptions of the named taxa and ways to ...
Eight women have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (listed above), awarded annually since 1901 by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Marie Curie was the first woman to receive the prize in 1911, which was her second Nobel Prize (she also won the prize in physics in 1903, along with Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel – making her the only ...
This is a list of scientific units named after people. For other lists of eponyms (names derived from people) see eponym . By convention , the name of the unit is properly written starting with a lowercase letter (except where any word would be capitalized), but the first letter of its symbol is a capital letter if it is derived from a proper name.
Her book, Born Free, an international bestseller, describes her experiences raising a lion cub named Elsa. It was made into an Academy Award-winning movie of the same name. In 1977, she was awarded the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art. [304] 1977: The Association for Women Geoscientists was founded. [305]
A person whose name is used to name something else is an eponym. The asterisk (*) section contains lists of things named after people by type of person. The plus (+) section contains lists of things named after people by subject.