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Christine Ladd-Franklin

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

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

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 Hirsch Luchins

Edith Luchins was a Polish-American mathematician who applied mathematical methods to problems in the philosophy of science and psychology.

Gertrude Blanch

Gertrude Blanch was a Polish born American mathematician who did pioneering work in numerical analysis and computation.

Amélie Harlay

Amélie Harlay was a French astronomer who published navigational tables and catalogues of stars.

Florence Marie Harsant

Temperance worker, nurse, community leader, writer

Rózsa Péter

Rózsa Péter was a Hungarian mathematician and logician. She became a founder of recursive function theory.

Maria Cunitz

Maria Cunitz was an astronomer who published simpler versions of Kepler’s work.