Adele Masi Lessona
Italian scientific and literary translator
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Dr Clelia Duel Mosher
Her Mosher Report remains the only known existing survey of Victorian women’s sexual habits, begun in 1892 and continued for nearly thirty years.
Dr Margaret Burbidge
Astrophysicist and the first female director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory
Agnes Pockels
Chemist Agnes Pockels would have studied the subject if she were given the chance, but women were not admitted to universities in 1870s Germany.
Dr Helene Marsh
Helene Marsh is the world’s foremost authority on the ecology and conservation biology of dugongs and has played a central role in advancing scientific understanding of marine megafauna and management of coastal marine mammals.
Margaret W Moodey
Margaret W. Moodey was one of the Smithsonian Institution’s first female staff members. By 1924, an annual report states that she “had the entire responsibility and care of the collection of cut gems.”
Etheldred Benett
Etheldred Benett amassed an impressive collection of fossils in the early 1800s, at one point encompassing thousands of specimens.
Caterina Vitale
1500s/1600s pharmacist and chemist in Malta, and the first female pharmacist of the Knights Hospitaller
Jane Colden
After five years of diligent work, botanist Jane Colden completed her manuscript on the plants of New York in 1758, full of vibrant descriptions of hundreds of native plants, as well as practical uses and beautiful illustrations.
Clarice Phelps
Clarice Phelps was a nuclear engineer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s High Flux Isotope Reactor when, in 2008, she helped isolate and purify 22mg of berkelium, which collaborators used to create a new element: tennessine, element 117.