Lynn Margulis
American evolutionary biologist
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Jane Wadsworth
Statistician who applied her skills to data coming from a wide range of topics relating to medical research. She devoted the latter part of her life to combatting the AIDS epidemic by constructing and carrying out surveys to establish the pattern of HIV infection in Britain.
Dr Agnes Wells
Agnes Wells was an American mathematician and astronomer who worked during the first half of the 20th century. She spent most of her career expertly guiding women students and trying to improve the status of women in American society.
Adelaide Ames
Adelaide Ames (June 3, 1900-June 26, 1932) was an American astronomer who worked at the Harvard College Observatory from 1923 to 1932. She is best known for her work on detailed surveys of the brightest extra-galactic spiral nebulae.
Dr Rebeca Guber
Rebeca Guber was one of the first Argentinian women mathematicians. She played a major role in the development of computing in Argentina. She also made important contributions to education particularly teaching science in schools.
Mary Tsingou Menzel
Mary Tsingou Menzel is an American computer programmer who worked her whole career at the Los Alamos Laboratory. She programmed the first ‘mathematical experiments’ on a computer and was the first to implement a computer graphics program.
Adelina Gutiérrez
Chilean professor, scientist and academic who was the main force behind setting up the first Bachelor’s degree in Astronomy in Chile and later the first Master’s degree in Astronomy. She was the first Chilean to obtain a doctorate in astrophysics and also the first woman elected to the Chilean Academy of Sciences.
Paris Pişmiş
Paris Pishmish was a Turkish astronomer with a doctorate from Istanbul University advised by Finlay Freundlich. She was the first person employed to teach astronomy in Mexico with an astronomy doctorate. She spent most of her career in Mexico City and made substantial contributions to both teaching and research.
Cecilia Berdichevsky
Cecilia Berdichevsky was a mathematician who played a major role in developing work with the first computer to be installed in Argentina in 1961. This work ended in 1966 with the coup which caused many academics to leave Argentina. She remained in the country taking on numerous accounting and IT roles.
Danuta Gierulanka
Danuta Gierulanka was a Polish mathematician, philosopher and psychologist. She wrote interesting works on mathematical education and on the philosophy of mathematics.