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Florence Bascom

American geologist, Bascom was the second woman to earn Ph.D in geology in the United States, in 1893. She became the first woman to work for the United States Geological Survey in 1896.

Maria Tecla Artemisia Montessori

Italian physician and educator, founder of the Montessori System of teaching children

Dr Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

English physician and pioneer of women’s rights.

June Opie was a polio survivor, clinical psychologist, writer and broadcaster who overcame discrimination against the disabled to achieve professional and personal success. Her memoir, Over my dead body (1957), was an international best-seller and brought her widespread fame.

Marie Boivin

French midwife who invented the pelvimeter and vaginal speculum, which are used to dilate the vagina and examine the cervix. She discovered causes of miscarriages and was the first to use a stethoscope to listen to the fetal heartbeat. Her books Mémorial de l’art des accouchements (The Art of Obstretrics, 1812) and Traité pratique des maladies de l’utérus et de ses annexes (1833, on diseases of the uterus) were important texts for medical students and midwives.

Marie Curie

Polish-French physicist and chemist, first woman to win a Nobel Prize

Anna Comnena

Greek historian and scholar

Sophia Jex-Blake

In 1886 she opened the Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women, of which she was dean until her retirement in 1899. She is the author of American Schools and Colleges, Medical Women and Care of Infants.

Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova

Russian litterateur, and one of the leaders of the party that raised Catherine II to the throne

Emma Hart Willard

Leader in the American movement for the higher education of women, founder of the Troy Female Seminary, and active in the great national revival of common schools in the United States.