Dr Carolyn Chun
American mathematician and professor
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Jessie Marie Jacobs
Mathematician who collaborated on Nobel-winning genetics work with her husband
Elizabeth Langdon Williams
The discovery of Pluto would not have been possible without mathematician Elizabeth Williams.
Betty Shannon
Betty Shannon’s husband Claude was a scientific rock star of the mid-1900s, helping to usher in the computer age. While Claude was well-known to both scientific circles and the general public, few realised Betty was his closest collaborator.
Alison Harcourt
Statistician Dr. Alison Harcourt is best known for co-defining the branch and bound algorithm—a way of solving optimisation problems by breaking them into smaller problems—with Ailsa Land.
Dorothy McFadden Hoover
Dorothy M. Hoover was a pioneer in the field of aeronautical mathematics and physics. The granddaughter of enslaved people, she overcame the significant obstacles facing African American women in the Jim Crow era of the twentieth century to earn advanced degrees in mathematics and physics.
Dr Christine Darden
In 1967, Christine Darden was added to the pool of ‘human computers’ who wrote complex programs and tediously crunched numbers for engineers at NASA’s Langley Research Center. But Darden wanted to do more than process the data — she wanted to create it.
Janez Lawson
She became the first African-American hired into a technical position at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, as a ‘computer’. JPL sent her on a programming training course at IBM and she learnt speed coding and was promoted to ‘mathematician’.
Dr Mary Gough
Irish Dominican sister, educator and mathematician
Catherine Prime
Catherine Mary Prime was Australia’s first female actuary, becoming a fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia (IAA) in 1971.