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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]
Evelyn Leland (c.1870–c.1930), American astronomer working at the Harvard College Observatory; Priyamvada Natarajan, Indian/American astrophysicist; Carolyn Porco (born 1953), American planetary scientist; Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900–1978), British-American astronomer; Ruby Payne-Scott (1912–1981), Australian radio astronomer
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]
1930: Concepción Mendizábal Mendoza became the first woman in Mexico to earn a civil engineering degree. [186] 1932: Michiyo Tsujimura became the first Japanese woman to earn a doctorate in agriculture. She studied at the Tokyo Imperial University, and her doctoral thesis was entitled "On the Chemical Components of Green Tea". [187]
Girls Coming to Tech!: A History of American Engineering Education for Women (MIT Press, 2014) Joyce Currie Little, "The Role of Women in the History of Computing." Proceedings, Women and Technology: Historical, Societal, and Professional Perspectives. IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society, New Brunswick, NJ, July 1999, 202–05.
Rachel Lloyd (1839–1900), American chemist [21]: 55–56 Adelaida Lukanina (1843–1908), Russian physician and chemist; Helen Abbott Michael (1857–1904), American botanist and chemist; Frances Micklethwait (1867–1950), British research chemist; Muriel Wheldale Onslow (1880–1932), British biochemist
1930 Man Ray Paris, France The photograph is an extreme close-up of a woman's upturned face with glass droplets placed on her cheeks to imitate tears. [s 1] [s 3] The Hague: 3 January 1930 Erich Salomon: The Hague, the Netherlands [s 2] Al Capone Mug Shot: 8 May 1930 Miami Police Department [40] Miami, United States [s 3] See article Behind the ...
1900 Margaret Abbott was the first American woman to win an Olympic event (women's golf tournament at the 1900 Paris Games); she was the first American woman, and the second woman overall to do it. [52] Carro Clark was the first American woman to establish, own and manage a book publishing firm (The C. M. Clark Company opened in Boston). [53] 1905