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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 ...
Marie Curie. She is the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two sciences. Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie[ a] ( Polish: [ˈmarja salɔˈmɛa skwɔˈdɔfska kʲiˈri] ⓘ; née Skłodowska; 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934), known simply as Marie Curie ( / ˈkjʊəri / KURE-ee, [ 1] French: [maʁi kyʁi] ), was a Polish and naturalised -French ...
The most famous of the women alchemist, Mary the Jewess, is credited with inventing several chemical instruments, including the double boiler (bain-marie); the improvement or creation of distillation equipment of that time. [19] [20] Such distillation equipment were called kerotakis (simple still) and the tribikos (a complex distillation device ...
Zulma Brandoni de Gasparini (born 1944), Argentine paleontologist and zoologist. Constanza Ceruti (born 1973), Argentine archaeologist and anthropologist. Rachel Chan (graduated 1988), led group of research scientists to create more drought resistant seed in Argentina. Perla Fuscaldo (born 1941), Argentine egyptologist.
John Finch. Kenneth Holmes. Rosalind Elsie Franklin (25 July 1920 – 16 April 1958) [ 1] was a British chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), RNA (ribonucleic acid), viruses, coal, and graphite. [ 2] Although her works on coal and viruses were ...
Lise Meitner is the female physicist the most nominated, 16 times for Physics and 14 times for Chemistry. [20] About 1.7% of the Nobel nominations in Physics up to 1970 were women. [ 20 ]
In 1977, Goodall established the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI), which supports the Gombe research, and she is a global leader in the effort to protect chimpanzees and their habitats. With nineteen offices around the world, the JGI is widely recognised for community-centred conservation and development programs in Africa.
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.