Women in Science: Emmy Noether 1882-1935
Amalie Emmy Noether was born to a Jewish family in Bavaria on March 23, 1882. By her death she was considered by Albert Einstein and many others the greatest female mathematician in the world at the...
View ArticleWomen in Science: Marie Curie 1867-1934
I have hesitated about writing a diary on Marie Curie. With the possible exception of Rachel Carson, more has been written about her than any other female scientist. She was the winner of not just...
View ArticleWomen in Science: Irène Joliot-Curie 1897-1956
Certainly the Curies were a talented family, mostly when it came to physics and chemistry, with five Nobel Prizes between them, not including the Nobel Prize for Peace awarded to Henry Richardson...
View ArticleWomen in Science: Jocelyn Crane Griffin 1909-1998
Of all the female scientists with whom I have had no direct association, Jocelyn Crane certainly had the most influential on my own research. I never met her and the letter I sent to her in the 1970s...
View ArticleWomen in Science: Admiral Grace Hopper 1906-1992
A Navy Admiral who was a woman and a computer scientist was certainly unusual. However Grace Hopper, who became both, was an unusual person.Born Grace Brewster Murray in New York City on December 9,...
View ArticleWomen in Science: Inge Lehmann 1888-1993
One woman who was a centenarian, Inge Lehmann, was also a famous seismologist who was the first to describe the inner core of the earth. Her brilliant career was in part the result of going to a...
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Pioneering female scientist/artist celebrated on Google today
Google's doodle today celebrates the 366th birthday of Maria Sibylla Merian. In 1699 Merian traveled to Dutch Surinam in South America and spent two years studying tropical plants and animals, and in...
View ArticleWomen in Science: Virginia Apgar 1909-1974
Clinical researchers are often not counted among "scientists," in the public eye, but they are important to practical medical science. Virginia Apgar was just such a researcher and clinician. Born in...
View ArticleWomen in Science: Marie Victoire Labour 1876-1971
Marie Victoire Labour (1876-1971), like some other early women scientists, became interested in a rather obscure area of study, in her case marine planktonic organisms. She became one of the world's...
View ArticleWomen in Science: Elizabeth Bangs Bryant 1875-1953
There was one woman who shows up in photographs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology entomology staff during the early to mid 1900s. She was Elizabeth Bangs Bryant. She was also an expert on the...
View ArticleWomen in Science: Cynthia Longfield 1896-1991
Cynthia Longfield was another woman who liked insects and was especially enamored of dragonflies and damselflies. She was, in fact, author of the book "The Dragonflies of the British Isles" published...
View ArticleWomen in Science: Mary Anning 1799-1847
Paleontology owes a huge debt to an English woman who lived during the first half of the 19th Century - Mary Anning. Although not a scientist she discovered a number of important fossils along the...
View ArticleWomen in Science: Chien-Shiung Wu 1912-1997
Chien-Shiung Wu was one of the few women scientists to work on the Manhattan Project to build the first atomic bomb.Born in Liuhe, China, she attended Mingde Women's Vocational Continuing School,...
View ArticleWomen in Science: Marianne North 1830-1890
Women shone as botanical and natural history artists in the Nineteenth Century. In fact, many of the plant and butterfly books written by male naturalists were illustrated by female artists, who were...
View ArticleMary Anning and British Paleontology
She was one of the most successful fossil hunters in history and a central figure in the history of paleontology, her discoveries are displayed in major museums, she was a self-taught woman in a field...
View ArticleWomen in Science: Anna Botsford Comstock 1851-1930
Another member of a husband and wife team was Anna Botsford Comstock, who married the entomologist John Henry Comstock in 1878. In the case of Ms. Comstock she also wrote works on her own and was a...
View ArticleWomen in Science: Nellie Harris Rau 188?-1972
Like Elizabeth Peckham, Nellie Harris Rau was part of a husband and wife team. Born near Athens, Ohio, sometime in the 1880s (exact date does not appear to be known), she moved with her parents to...
View ArticleWomen in Science: Martha Euphemia Lofton Haynes 1890-1980
Few African-American women were involved in STEM subjects over the Twentieth Century, and there are still not as many as there should be. However one successful mathematician in that period was both...
View ArticleWomen in Science: Mary Leakey 1913-1996
Louis Leakey is justly famous as the discoverer of a number of fossils of early man at Olduvai Gorge. However the effort became a family affair very early, with his wife Mary Leakey, as well as his...
View ArticleWomen in Science: Margaret Mead 1901-1978
Margaret Mead was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on December 16, 1901. She was the first born of a professor of finance at the University of Pennsylvania and a sociologist who studied Italian...
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