Margaret G Kivelson
American astrophysicist
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Margaret Jones
1600s midwife charged with witchcraft in 1648
Dr Margaret W Rossiter
Historian of women in science
Kristine Bonnevie
Kristine Bonnevie’s competence as a college professor led to sweeping legal reform in Norway. She was nominated to a professor position in 1910, during a time when Norwegian law prevented women from holding such a position.
Louise Bourgeois Boursier
Louise Bourgeois was renowned for her skill as a midwife, with patients including French royalty in the early 1600s.
Jean Purdy
Embryologist and nurse Jean Purdy was a key contributor to the work that resulted in the birth of the first IVF (in-vitro fertilisation) baby in 1978.
Jeanne Dumée
In her 1680 manuscript on Copernican and Galilean theories, astronomer Jeanne Dumée included an apology for writing on a subject considered “too delicate work for persons of her sex.”
Jessie Marie Jacobs
Mathematician who collaborated on Nobel-winning genetics work with her husband
Katharina Kepler
Katharina Kepler became a side character in her own trial for witchcraft in 1615 when her son, the well-known astronomer Johannes Kepler, famously defended her.
Betty Holberton
In the 1940s, Kathleen Antonelli, Betty Jean Jennings Bartik, Frances “Betty” Holberton, Marlyn Meltzer, Frances Spence, and Ruth Teitelbaum collaborated to program ENIAC, the world’s first programmable, electronic, general-purpose digital computer.