Germaine de Staël
French novelist, salon host and philosopher
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Stéphanie Félicité
French writer and educator
Héloïse
Immortalised by Rouseau and made famous by her unfortunate love for Abelard.
Anne Dacier
Anne Dacier (1654-1720) was one of the most accomplished scholars in France.
Madeleine de Scudéry
Madeleine de Scudéry (1607-1701) was one of the most famous French novelists of her time.
Wanda Szmielew
Wanda Szmielew was a Polish mathematical logician who first proved the decidability of the first-order theory of abelian groups.
Sophie Germain
Sophie Germain made a major contributions to number theory (in particular, the theory of primes), acoustics and elasticity.
Dorothy Maud Wrinch
Dorothy Maud Wrinch was an Argentinian-English-American mathematician and biochemist famous for her use of mathematical techniques to deduce protein structure.
Christina of Sweden
Christina, Queen of Sweden (1626-1689)
Émilie du Châtelet
Émilie du Châtelet was a French noblewoman who became important to mathematics as the translator of Newton’s Principia.