Barbara Cherry Schwarzschild
Barbara Cherry Schwarzschild (1914-2008) worked at the Harvard Observatory from approximately 1935 to 1938.
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Ada Langworthy Collier
American poet
Adelaide George Bennett
American poet
Adelia Field Johnston
American educator
Katherine Dunham
Katherine Dunham (1909–2006) studied the African-based dances and rituals of the Caribbean area and based many choreographic works on that research.
Madeleine Riffaud
Madeleine Riffaud was a French war correspondent and poet who worked with the French Resistance during WWII
Danuta Gierulanka
Danuta Gierulanka was a Polish mathematician, philosopher and psychologist. She wrote interesting works on mathematical education and on the philosophy of mathematics.
Zofia Krygowska
Zofia Krygowska was a Polish expert on mathematical education. After teaching mathematics in secondary schools she became a university professor and published over 250 articles and books.
Magdalena Mouján
Magdalena Mouján was an Argentine mathematician who became famed as a writer of science fiction. She taught mathematics and statistics at various Argentine universities: Universidad Católica de la Plata, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, and Universidad Nacional de Luján.
Dr Stanisława Nikodym
Stanisława Nikodym was the first Polish woman to obtain the degree of Ph.D. in mathematics. She wrote papers on analysis, some with her husband Otton Nikodym. She is also known as a painter.