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In 1977, she was awarded the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art. [301] 1977: The Association for Women Geoscientists was founded. [302] 1977: Argentine-Canadian scientist Veronica Dahl became the first graduate at Université d'Aix-Marseille II (and one of the first women in the world) to earn a PhD in artificial intelligence. [303]
The presence of women in science spans the earliest times of the history of science wherein they have made significant contributions. Historians with an interest in gender and science have researched the scientific endeavors and accomplishments of women, the barriers they have faced, and the strategies implemented to have their work peer ...
Walsh, James J. (2008) [1911 (Fordham University Press)]. "Medieval Women Physicians". Old Time Makers of Medicine: The Story of the Students and Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages. Lethe Press. pp. 135–150. Yount, Lisa (2007). A to Z of Women in Science and Math (Rev. ed.). New York: Infobase Pub.
1853: Jane Colden was the only female biologist mentioned by Carl Linnaeus in his masterwork Species Plantarum. [2] 1889: Mary Emilie Holmes became the first female Fellow of the Geological Society of America. [3] 1889: Susan La Flesche Picotte became the first Native American woman to become a physician in the United States.
Elisabeth Catherina Koopmann-Hevelius (Polish: Elżbieta Heweliusz; 17 January 1647 – 22 December 1693) is considered one of the first female astronomers. Originally from Danzig, Poland, she contributed to improve the work and observations done together with her husband Johannes Hevelius.
The three volumes include over four dozen detailed case histories that made a substantial contribution to the emerging empiricism of seventeenth-century European science and medicine. [4] Overall, Bourgeois’s mission was to educate midwives so that they could become more competent at caring for women’s obstetrical and gynecological needs as ...
The history of Harvard University dates back to 1636, when Harvard College was founded in New Towne, a settlement founded six years earlier in colonial-era Massachusetts Bay Colony, one of the original Thirteen Colonies. Two years later, in 1638, New Towne's name was changed to Cambridge, in honor of Cambridge, England, where many of the Colony ...
Invented in 1952 by Virginia Apgar. Disposable diapers. The first disposable diaper was invented in 1946 by Marion Donovan, a professional-turned-housewife who wanted to ensure her children's cloth diapers remained dry while they slept. [12] Donovan patented her design (called 'Boaters') in 1951.