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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 ...
Saba Valadkhan (born 1974), Tehran Education:Columbia University an Iranian American biomedical scientist, and an Assistant Professor and RNA researcher at Case Western Reserve University Ālenush Teriān (1920–2011), Iranian-Armenian astronomer and physicist and is called 'Mother of Modern Iranian Astronomy'
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 26 January 2025. British X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958) This article is about the chemist. For the Mars rover named after her, see Rosalind Franklin (rover). Rosalind Franklin Franklin with a microscope in 1955 Born Rosalind Elsie Franklin (1920-07-25) 25 July 1920 Notting Hill, London, England ...
Nuclear physicist Rosalyn Sussman Yalow was the second female scientist to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1977 for the development of radioimmunoassays. [12] Human right activist and 2023 Nobel Peace Prize , Narges Mohammadi , was trained in nuclear physics .
Her most-famous contribution to modern physics was discovering the nuclear shell of the atomic nucleus, for which she won the Nobel Prize in 1963. Slow light Lene Hau led a Harvard University team who used a Bose–Einstein condensate to slow down a beam of light to about 17 metres per second, and, in 2001, was able to stop a beam completely ...
She simultaneously became the first female scientist ever elected a member of the congress. [296] 1975: Indian geneticist Archana Sharma received the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, the first female recipient in the Biological Sciences category. [297] [298] 1975: Female officers of the British Geological Survey no longer had to resign upon ...
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Scientists. It includes scientists that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. The main article for this category is Women in science .
20th-century American women scientists (3 C, 1,882 P) 20th-century Argentine women scientists (1 C, 50 P) 20th-century Australian women scientists (2 C, 144 P)