Dr Wanda Díaz-Merced
Puerto Rican scientist who created ‘sonification’ software that allowed her to participate fully in astrophysical endeavors despite vision loss
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Mary Adele Blagg
British astronomer
Agnes Giberne
British astronomer
Alice Grace Cook
British astronomer
Elizabeth Brown
British astronomer
Ella K Church
British astronomer
Fiammetta Wilson
British astronomer
Margaret G Kivelson
American astrophysicist
Jeanne Dumée
In her 1680 manuscript on Copernican and Galilean theories, astronomer Jeanne Dumée included an apology for writing on a subject considered “too delicate work for persons of her sex.”
Elizabeth Langdon Williams
The discovery of Pluto would not have been possible without mathematician Elizabeth Williams.