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Margaret Seward (1864–1929), one of the first two female chemistry students at the University of Oxford; signed the 1904 petition to the Chemical Society; Vera Bogdanovskaia (1868–1897), one of the first female Russian chemists; Gerty Cori (1896–1957) Jewish Czech-American biochemist who was the first American to win a Nobel Prize in science
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 ...
This is a timeline of women in science, spanning from ancient history up to the 21st century. While the timeline primarily focuses on women involved with natural sciences such as astronomy, biology, chemistry and physics, it also includes women from the social sciences (e.g. sociology, psychology) and the formal sciences (e.g. mathematics ...
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. [4] [5]
Grace Oladunni Taylor (born 1937), Nigerian chemist, 2nd woman inducted into the Nigerian Academy of Science Omowunmi Sadik (born 1964), chemist, educator Margaret Adebisi Sowunmi (born 1939), botanist and environmental archaeologist
Like a true scientist, ... Within MIT's science school, women now account for 19% of all faculty, up from 8% in 1999, while that percentage within the engineering school jumped to 17% today from ...
The most recent women to be awarded a Nobel Prize were Han Kang in Literature (2024), Claudia Goldin in Economics, Narges Mohammadi for Peace, Anne L'Huillier in Physics and Katalin Karikó in Physiology or Medicine (2023), Annie Ernaux in Literature and Carolyn R. Bertozzi for Chemistry (2022), Maria Ressa for Peace (2021), Louise Glück in ...
In 2018 she became the first female mayor of Mexico City, a post she held until 2023, when she stepped down to run for president. As a former ballet dancer, Sheinbaum has described herself as ...