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Mary Wortley Montagu

English author and letter-writer, who promoted the practice of inoculation against smallpox in Britain.

Mary Henrietta Kingsley

English traveller, ethnologist and author

Pauline Sperry

Pauline Sperry was an American mathematician who worked in projective differential geometry.

Winifred Deans graduated from Aberdeen and Cambridge. After a period in teaching she joined a Scottish publishing company and translated many important German scientific texts for them. After World War II she worked at the Commonwealth Bureau of Animal Nutrition in Aberdeen.

Martha Betz Shapley

Martha Shapley became a high school mathematics teacher. After marrying the astronomer Harlow Shapley she did outstanding research on eclipsing binary stars.

Mary Somerville

Mary Somerville wrote many works which influenced Maxwell. Her discussion of a hypothetical planet perturbing Uranus led Adams to his investigation. Somerville College in Oxford was named after her.

Mary Taylor Slow

Mary Taylor Slow was a British mathematician and physicist who worked on the theory of radio waves and the application of differential equations to physics.

Gladys Mackenzie

Gladys Mackenzie graduated from the University of Edinburgh and became an assistant in the Natural Philosophy department. She moved to Newnham College Cambridge and late to Bristol University and Queen Elizabeth College London. She published papers on X-ray spectroscopy.

Chrystal Macmillan

Chrystal Macmillan was the first female science graduate at Edinburgh University and the first female honours graduate in Mathematics. She became active in the Women’s Suffrage Movement and went on to become a lawyer.

Lenore Blum

Lenore Blum is an American mathematician who has made important advances in computer science.