The Greatest Women in Science HistoryPasteur, Bohr, Einstein…we are all familiar with the great male scientists who have contributed greatly to the knowledge and progress of the human race. Less well known are those women scientists without whose work our understanding would be greatly impoverished. From Merit Ptah to Marie Curie to Evelyn Boyd Granville, the ranks of the greatest scientists have always included women. Maria Gaetana Agnesi — d. 1799 AD Mary Anning — d. 1847 AD Arate of Cyrene — 5th century BC Anna Atkins — d. 1871 AD Hertha Marks Ayrton — d. 1923 AD S Josephine Baker — d. 1945 AD Olive Ann Beech — d. 1993 AD Ruth Benedict — d. 1948 Laura Bassi — d. 1778 AD Elizabeth Blackwell — d. 1910 AD Sophia Brahe — 17th cent. AD Elizabeth Knight Britton — d. 1934 AD Mary E Britton — d. 1925 AD Margaret Burbidge — 20th cent. AD Mary Whiton Calkins — d. 1929 AD Annie Jump Cannon — d. 1941 AD Margaret Cavendish — d. 1674 AD Cornelia Clapp — d. 1934 AD Jane Colden — d. 1766 AD Bessie Coleman — d. 1926 AD Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz — d. 1695 AD Marie Cunitz — d. 1664 AD Marie Curie — d. 1934 AD Emilie Marquise de Chatelet De Breteuil — d. 1749 AD Bessie Delaney — d. 1995 AD Sadie Delaney — d. 1925 AD En Hedu'Anna — d. 2250 BC Alice Fletcher — d. 1923 AD Williamina Fleming — d. 1911 AD Rosalind Elsie Franklin — d. 1958 AD Gargi — ca. 500 BC Sophia Germain — d. 1831 AD Kate Gleason — d. 1933 AD Evelyn Boyd Granville — 20th cent. AD Anna J Harrison — d. 1998 AD Herrad — d. 1195 AD Caroline Lucretia Herschel — d. 1848 AD Hildegard von Bingen — d. 1179 AD Hipparchia — ca. 300 BC Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin — d. 1994 AD Grace Hopper — d. 1992 AD Margaret Murray Huggins — d. 1915 AD Hypatia — d. 415 AD Mary Kies — d. 1837 AD Maria Margarethe Kirch — d. 1720 AD Sofia Kovalevskia — d. 1891 AD Bertha Lamme — d. 1943 AD Nichole-Reine Lepaute — d. 1789 AD Henrietta Swan Leavitt — d. 1921 AD Lady Augusta Ada Byron Lovelace — d. 1852 AD Margaret E Matlby — d. 1944 AD Anna Morandi Manzolini — d. 1774 AD Maria Goeppert Mayer — d. 1972 AD Barbara McClintock — d. 1992 AD Lise Meitner — d. 1968 AD Maud Menten — d. 1960 AD Maria Sibylla Merian — d. 1717 AD Maria Mitchell — d. 1889 AD Tarquinia Molza — d. 1617 AD Julia Morgan — d. 1957 AD Florence Nightingale — d. 1910 AD Cecelia Payne-Gaposchkin — d. 1979 Eliza Luca Pickney — d. 1793 AD Christine di Pisan — d. 1430 AD Elena Cornaro Piscopia — d. 1684 AD Beatrix Potter — d. 1943 AD Merit Ptah — ca. 2700 BC Ellen Swallow Richards — d. 1911 AD Emily Roebling — d. 1903 AD Georgia Dwelle Rooks — d. 1977 AD Patsy Sherman — 20th cent. AD Si Ling Chi — ca. 2700 BC Mary Sommerville — d. 1872 AD Nettie Stevens — d. 1912 AD Ida Eva Tacke — d. 1979 AD Lucy Hobbs Taylor — d. 1910 AD Maria Telkes — d. 1995 AD Theano — ca. 6th cent. BC M Carey Thomas — d. 1922 AD Margaret Floy Washburn — d. 1939 AD Sarah F Whiting — d. 1927 AD Dorothy Wrinch — d. 1976 AD Chien Shiung Wu — d. 1997 AD Rosalyn Sussman Yalow — 20th cent. |