Women scientists

Abby Howe Turner (1875-1957) was a noted professor of Physiology and Zoology who founded the department of physiology at Mount Holyoke College. She specialized in colloid osmotic pressure and circulatory reactions to gravity. ...more on Wikipedia about "Abby Howe Turner"

Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace ( December 10, 1815 – November 27, 1852) is mainly known for having written a description of ...more on Wikipedia about "Ada Lovelace"

Alice Wilson ( August 26 1881– April 15 1964) was a Canadian geologist and paleontologist. She conducted field studies on rocks and fossils in the Ottawa region between 1913 and 1963. She became the first female Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1937. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alice Wilson"

Audrey M. Shuey ( 1910- 1977) was a researcher on race and intelligence and a Pioneer Fund grantee. She worked at Randolph-Macon Woman's College. ...more on Wikipedia about "Audrey M. Shuey"

Barbara McClintock ( June 16 1902 – September 2 1992) was a pioneering American scientist and one of the world's most distinguished cytogeneticists. McClintock received her PhD in botany from Cornell University in 1927, where she was a leader in the development of maize cytogenetics; the field remained the focus of her research for the rest of her career. From the late 1920s, McClintock studied chromosomes and how they change during reproduction in maize. Her work was groundbreaking: she developed the technique to visualize maize chromosomes and used microscopic analysis to demonstrate many fundamental genetic concepts, including genetic recombination by crossing-over during meiosis—a mechanism by which chromosomes exchange information. She produced the first genetic map for maize, linking regions of the chromosome with physical traits, and she demonstrated the role of the telomere and centromere, regions of the chromosome that are important in the conservation of genetic information. She was recognized amongst the best in the field, awarded prestigious fellowships and elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1944. ...more on Wikipedia about "Barbara McClintock"

Becky Wai-Ling Packard is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Education at Mount Holyoke College. ...more on Wikipedia about "Becky Wai-Ling Packard"

Dr. Brenda Milner (born 15 July 1918, Manchester England) has contributed extensively to the research literature on various topics in the field of clinical neuropsychology. ...more on Wikipedia about "Brenda Milner" Connect with www.shortopedia.com.

Caroline Lucretia Herschel ( March 16 1750 – January 9 1848) was a German-born English astronomer. She worked with her brother Sir William Herschel. Her main contribution to astronomy was the discovery of some new comets. In particular, the periodic comet 35P/Herschel-Rigollet bears her name. ...more on Wikipedia about "Caroline Herschel"

Carolyn Jean Spellmann Shoemaker (born 1929) is a co-discoverer of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 and wife to Eugene Shoemaker. ...more on Wikipedia about "Carolyn S. Shoemaker"

Carrie Matilda Derick ( January 14, 1862 – November 10, 1941) was Canadian botanist and the first female professor in a Canadian University. ...more on Wikipedia about "Carrie Derick"

Dian Fossey ( January 16, 1932 – December 26, 1985) was an American ethologist interested in gorillas, completing an extended study of several gorilla groups, observing them daily for years in the mountain forests of Rwanda. Initially encouraged to work there by famous paleontologist Louis Leakey, her work is somewhat similar to Jane Goodall's with chimpanzees. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dian Fossey"

Dorothy Hansine Andersen ( May 15, 1901 - 1963) was the physician who identified Cystic fibrosis. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dorothy Hansine Andersen"

Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs ( August 11, 1912 – March 9, 1954) was a German astronomer. She made important observations of variable stars. ...more on Wikipedia about "Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs"

Gloria Johnson-Powell MD (Gloria Johnson) is a child psychiatrist who is also an important figure in the American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968), was the first African American woman to attain tenure at Harvard Medical School ** , and is the author of several books. ...more on Wikipedia about "Gloria Johnson-Powell"

Helen Battles Sawyer Hogg, CC , D.Litt , D.Sc , FRSC ( August 1, 1905 – January 28, 1993) was a prolific astronomer noted for her research into globular clusters, but best remembered for her astronomy column, which ran from 1951 until 1981. ...more on Wikipedia about "Helen Sawyer Hogg"

Henrietta Swan Leavitt ( July 4 1868 – December 12 1921) was an American astronomer, as well as being deaf ** and a Christian ** . She was born in Lancaster, Massachusetts. ...more on Wikipedia about "Henrietta Swan Leavitt"

Irène Joliot-Curie née Curie ( September 12, 1897 – March 17, 1956) was a French scientist, the daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie and the wife of Frédéric Joliot-Curie. ...more on Wikipedia about "Irène Joliot-Curie"

Jane Goodall Ph.D., DBE (born April 3, 1934) is an English primatologist, ethologist and anthropologist, probably best-known for conducting a forty-five year study of chimpanzee social and family life, as director of the Jane Goodall Institute in Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jane Goodall"

Dr. Jane Luu (a.k.a. Jane X. Luu until mid- 2002) is a Vietnamese American astronomer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jane Luu"

S. Jocelyn Bell Burnell (born Susan Jocelyn Bell, 15 July 1943), British astrophysicist and Quaker who discovered the first radio pulsars with her thesis advisor Antony Hewish. Born in Northern Ireland, Bell Burnell attended the University of Glasgow and then Cambridge University. At Cambridge, she worked with Hewish and others to construct a radio telescope for using interplanetary scintillation to study quasars, which had recently been discovered (interplanetary scintillation allows compact sources to be distinguished from extended ones). Detecting a bit of "scruff" on her chart recorder papers that tracked across the sky with the stars, Bell Burnell found that the signal was regularly pulsing, about once each second. Temporarily dubbed "Little Green Man 1" the source was eventually identified as a rapidly rotating neutron star. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jocelyn Bell Burnell"

Judith Lapierre is a professor in Nursing at the Université du Québec. She studied at the International Space University in France. ...more on Wikipedia about "Judith Lapierre"

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The Honourable Lillian Eva Quan Dyck, BA, MSc, PhD (born August 24 1945 in North Battleford, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian senator from Saskatchewan. She was appointed to the senate on the recommendation of Prime Minister Paul Martin on March 24, 2005. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lillian Dyck"

Lise Meitner ( November 17, 1878– October 27, 1968) was an Austrian physicist who studied radioactivity and nuclear physics. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lise Meitner"

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Louise Freeland Jenkins ( July 5, 1888– May 9, 1970) was an American astronomer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Louise Freeland Jenkins"

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