By Tim Lambert
Early Woman Scientists
c 546 BC Theano of Crotona a great woman mathematician is born
c. 150 BC Aglaonike a woman astronomer lives
415 AD Hypatia a woman astronomer and mathematician dies
c. 1100 Trota of Salerno, a famous woman doctor lives
c. 1200 Rebecca Guarna another famous woman doctor lives
1326 Alessandra Giliani dies. She was a famous anatomist.
1556-1643 Sophia Brahe was a horticulturist and astronomer
1610-1644 Maria Cunitz was an astronomer
1670-1720 Maria Kirch was another astronomer
1676-1707 Maria Clara Eimmart was an astronomer
1706-1749 Emilie du Chatelet a great woman physicist lives
1711-1778 Laura Bassi was a famous physicist
1716-1774 Anne Manzolini lives. She was an anatomist.
1718-1799 Maria Agnesi was a famous mathematician
1723-1788 Nicole-Reine Lepaute was an astronomer
1724-1766 Jane Colden was a botanist
1750-1848 Caroline Herschel, was a great woman astronomer
1776-1831 Sophie Germain was a mathematician
1780-1872 Mary Somerville was a mathematician
1799-1847 Mary Anning a paleontologist lives
1799-1871 Anna Atkins was a botanist
1818-1889 Maria Mitchell was a famous astronomer
1822-1907 Elizabeth Agassiz lives. She was a naturalist.
1831-1888 Rachel Bodley a famous chemist lives
1847-1921 Mary Whitney was an astronomer
1850-1891 Sofia Kovalevskaya was a mathematician
Modern Woman Scientists
1854-1923 Hertha Ayrton was a physicist
1857-1911 Williamina Fleming lives. She was an astronomer.
1858-1934 Elizabeth Britton a biochemist lives
1858-1931 Charlotte Scott a mathematician lives
1863-1941 Annie Cannon an astronomer lives
1864-1920 An astronomer named Fiammetta Wilson lives. She studied meteors.
1867-1934 Marie Curie, the famous physicist lives
1868-1921 Henrietta Leavitt an astronomer lives
1869-1940 Maude Abbott lives. She was a cardiologist.
1878-1968 Lise Meitner was a physicist
1878-1951 Dorothea Bate a paleontologist lives
1879-1960 Agnes Arber was a botanist
1879-1960 Maud Menten a biochemist lives
1882-1935 Emmy Noether was a mathematician
1884-1982 Helene Deutsch lives. She was a psychologist.
1885-1952 Karen Horney, a German psychoanalyst lives
1896-1957 Gerty Cortia was a biochemist
1898-1980 Rachel Brown was also a biochemist
1898-1997 Katherine Esau was a botanist
1899-1994 Charlotte Auerbach was a geneticist
1899-1964 Roger Arliner Young was a zoologist
1900-1986 Honor Fell was a biologist
1902-1992 Barbara McClintock was a geneticist
1905-1993 Helen Sawyer Hogg was an astronomer
1902-1979 Sidnie Manton was a zoologist
1903-1976 Gladys Emerson was a nutritionist
1903-1971 Kathleen Lonsdale was a crystallographer
1906-1972 Maria Goeppert-Mayer was a physicist
1906-1992 Grace Hopper a mathematician lives
1909-1975 Marguerite Perey was a physicist
1910-1994 Dorothy Hodgkin was a biochemist
1910-2000 Margaret Hutchinson Rousseau was a chemical engineer. She was the first woman member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
1912-1997 Chien-Shiung Wu was a nuclear physicist
1917-1952 Sameera Moussa was a nuclear physicist
1919-2020 Margaret Burbidge was an astronomer
1920-1958 Rosalind Franklin was a molecular biologist
1932-1985 Dian Fossey was a zoologist
1934- Jane Goodall is a zoologist
1935- Sylvia Mead is a marine biologist
Last revised 2024