I wonder...What was her life like? What was going on in the world around her? How did people think of the world in her time and place? When it comes right down to it, what made her stand out in history? In Science?
& Some
Perspective:
Mary Anning
Marie Curie
Hypatia of Alexandria
Ada Byron Lovelace
Maud Menten
Trotula
Links
to other sites:
Emmy Noether
Maria Mitchell
Maria Mitchell Association
Check out the debate on the current and future status of women in science at Nature
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Joy Adams the "witch" of Agnesi (1718-1799) Leah Allen Caroline Still Anderson Mary Anning ~B~ Florence Bascom Harriet Bigelow Elizabeth Blackwell Emilie de Breteuil, Marquise du Chatelet (1706-1749) Mary Emma Byrd ~C~ Emma Carr Rachel Carson Eve Curie Marie Curie ~E~ Florence Hawlley Ellis Gertrude Elion ~F~ Dian Fossey Rosalind Franklin ~G~ Sophie Germain (1776- 1831) Jane Goodall Marianne Grunberg-Manago |
Alice Hamilton Julia Brainerd Hall Olive C. Hazlett Carolin Herschel (1750-1848) Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Hypatia (370-415a.d.) ~I~ Cythia Irwin-Williams ~J~ Mae Jemison (first Black woman in space) Irene Joliot-Curie ~K~ Sonya Corvin-Krukovsky Kovalevsky (1850-1891) ~L~ Marjorie Ferguson Lambert Mayme I. Logsdon Ada Byron Lovelace ~M~ Antonia Maury Barbara McClintock (1902-1992) Lise Meitner Maud Menten (1879-1960) Helen A. Merrill Maria Mitchell (1818-1889) |
Ida Noddack Emmy (Amalie) Noether (1882-1935) ~P~ Margaretta Palmer ~R~ Sally Ride ~S~ Mary Emily Sinclair Mary Fairfax Somerville (1780-1872) Helen Swartz ~T~ Trotula of Salerno ~V~ Jeanne Villepreux-Power (1794-1871) ~W~ Anna Pell Wheeler Mary Whitney ~Y~ Anne S. Young |
Clara Barton
Alice Hamilton
Florence Nightingale
Margerate Sanger
Madame Curie: a Biography
by Curie, Eve, De Capo Press abridged republication of edition published in New York in 1937. reprinted by arrangement with doubleday & Co.. 1986.
Hypatia of Alexandria
by Dzielska, Maria, translated by Lyra,F. Harvard University Press; Cambridge MA, London England. 1995.
Women in Mathematics
by Osen, Lynn M., The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England. 1974.
Mathematical Scandals
by Pappas, Teoni, wide World Publishing/Tetra, San Carlos, CA. 1997.
Mary Anning of Lyme Regis
by Tickell, Crispin,Published by Lyme Regis Philpot Museum, 1996. reprinted 1998.
Stars, Shells and Bluebells: Women Scientists and Pioneers
published by Women in Technology & Science (WITS), P.O.Box 3783, Dublin 4, Ireland. 1997.
