Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat
Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat is a French mathematician and physicist who made important contributions to the general theory of relativity. She was the first woman to be elected to the French Academy of Sciences.
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Lene Hau
Lene Hau is a Danish physicist and mathematician. She has led a team at Harvard University who have slowed light and in 2001 succeeded in stopping a beam of light. This has important applications to quantum computing.
Henrietta Swan Leavitt
Henrietta Leavitt was an American astronomer who discovered the relation between the luminosity and the period of Cepheid variables. This was a vital step in measuring the distance to remote galaxies.
Nicole-Reine Lepaute
Nicole-Reine Lepaute was a French noblewoman who helped Lalande with astronomical calculations.
Émilie du Châtelet
Émilie du Châtelet was a French noblewoman who became important to mathematics as the translator of Newton’s Principia.
Agnes Macready
Agnes Macready should be regarded as the first Australian woman war correspondent, although there was no official system at this time for accreditation.
Kathleen McNulty Antonelli
Kathleen McNulty Antonelli was an Irish-born American computer programmer who was one of the first to work with the early ENIAC machine.
Tatiana Ehrenfest-Afanassjewa
Tatiana Alexeyevna Afanassjewa was a Ukrainian-born Dutch mathematician and physicist who made contributions to the fields of statistical mechanics and statistical thermodynamics.
Hertha Ayrton
Hertha Ayrton was an engineer and mathematician. She was awarded the Royal Society’s Hughes Medal, and is well known as a suffragette.
Laura Bassi
Laura Bassi was an Italian physicist and one of the earliest women to gain a position in an Italian university.