Elizabeth Davis
Astronomer and mathematician who did calculations on the Ephemeres of the Sun for the Nautical Almanac and work on comet orbits.
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F Gertrude Wentworth
Astronomer who worked on astronomical computation of a difficult and refined order
Mary Emma Byrd
American astronomer and mathematician. She was director of the Smith College Observatory for 19 years and was one of the first seven women to join the New York Mathematical Society in 1891.
Susan J Cunningham
Susan Jane Cunningham was a mathematician and astronomer who founded the Mathematics and Astronomy Departments at Swarthmore College. She was one of the first seven women to join the New York Mathematical Society in 1891.
Kathleen Booth
Kathleen Booth was a computing pioneer, who helped with the crystallography analysis that contributed to the DNA structure, was a co-designer of one of the first 3 operational computers in the world, and author of 2 of the earliest books on computer design and programming.
Isabel Martin Lewis
The U.S. Naval Observatory hired Isabel M. Lewis and Eleanor A. Lamson long before women were even allowed to enroll at the U.S. Naval Academy.
Isabel Hadfield
Chemical engineer Isabel Hadfield spent most of her career in research at the NPL.
Isabel Hardwich
Photometry expert and electrical engineer and WES activist.
Jane Plant
Geochemist, metallurgist and expert on the effects of environmental chemicals and diet in cancers.
Jean Taylor
Jean Taylor was generally described in her lifetime as an entomologist but, although that was the source of her expertise, perhaps today she might be considered to have been an applied biologist or bio-engineer.