Alice Lee was awarded a D.Sc. in 1899, and had an outstanding career as a statistician working in both Bedford College and University College in London. Her work was important in disproving the belief that skull size was related to intelligence, the argument that was being used at that time to “prove” women were intellectually inferior to men.
Christine Ladd-Franklin was an American psychologist, logician and mathematician who was one of the earliest women to work in American universities.
Agnes Mary Clerke was an Irish astronomer and writer on both astronomy and biography.
Annie Scott Dill Maunder was a Northern Irish astronomer and mathematician who studied the mathematical tripos at Cambridge then worked at the Royal Observatory Greenwich. She was the first to find evidence of the movement of sunspot emergence from the poles toward the equator over the sun’s 11-year cycle.
Ida Rhodes was born in the Ukraine but emigrated to the United States as a teenager. She studied mathematics and had a variety of jobs before joining the Mathematical Tables Project in New York City. She did important work on the development of computers.
Edith Luchins was a Polish-American mathematician who applied mathematical methods to problems in the philosophy of science and psychology.
Gertrude Blanch was a Polish born American mathematician who did pioneering work in numerical analysis and computation.
Amélie Harlay was a French astronomer who published navigational tables and catalogues of stars.
Temperance worker, nurse, community leader, writer
Sophie Germain made a major contributions to number theory (in particular, the theory of primes), acoustics and elasticity.