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Gisela Kaplan, ornithologist and primatologist noted for her research in animal cognition, communication and vocal behaviour of primates and specifically native Australian birds; Kate Leslie (born 1962), medical researcher specializing in anaesthesia; Lyn March (fl. 2004), medical researcher specializing in inflammatory arthritis
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 ...
Anne Christine Innis Dagg CM (25 January 1933 – 1 April 2024) was a Canadian zoologist, feminist, and author of numerous books.A pioneer in the study of animal behaviour in the wild, Dagg is credited with being the first person to study wild giraffes. [1]
1992: Edith M. Flanigen became the first woman awarded the Perkin Medal (widely considered the highest honor in American industrial chemistry) for her outstanding achievements in applied chemistry. [60] [61] The medal especially recognized her syntheses of aluminophosphate and silicoaluminophosphate molecular sieves as new classes of materials ...
Jacqueline Means, a.k.a. ‘The STEM Queen,’ is encouraging girls to pursue science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) through her nonprofit Wilmington Urban STEM initiative. For more ...
In the early 20th century, prominent behavioral psychologists promoted the idea that science should only study observable behavior in animals, rather than emotions or subjective experiences. But ...
Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall was born in April 1934 in Hampstead, London, [7] to businessman Mortimer Herbert Morris-Goodall [] (1907–2001) and Margaret Myfanwe Joseph (1906–2000), [8] a novelist from Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, [9] who wrote under the name Vanne Morris-Goodall.
For birds and flying mammals, geolocators often take the form of a little solar-powered harness, which is fitted to the back of the animal and can weigh as little as half a gram.