Though a few women had been elected as honorary members, Isis Pogson was the first woman to try to join the Royal Astronomical Society as a fellow. She was admitted almost thirty-five years later, in 1920, after the society finally changed the rules.
American astrophysicist and writer
1700s Germany astronomer
Astrophysicist and the first female director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory
Gentile Budrioli was an influential astrologist and herbal healer in 1400s Bologna, renowned for her skills, a close friend of the ruler’s wife, and even briefly a councillor at the Bolognese court.
Dr. Wendy Freedman was the lead author on the 2001 paper “Final Results from the Hubble Space Telescope Key Project to Measure the Hubble Constant;” Freedman and her team had calculated more precisely than ever before the rate at which the universe is expanding, or the Hubble constant.
American astrophysicist
Malaysia’s first astrophysicist, pioneering the nation’s entry into space exploration.
Chinese historian, philosopher, and politician, the earliest known female Chinese historian
Carla Fasano was the first woman to be appointed professor at the University of Wollongong (1985).