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Women of Science
Creating and celebrating profiles of influential women in science, technology, engineering, and math fields.
The purpose is to categorize women who were inventors or were involved in scientific discoveries or applications, to include formal, natural, social, applied, and space sciences and medicine.
Formal Sciences
Logic, math, theoretical computer science, information theory, systems theory, decision theory, statistics
Wikipedia | WikiTree | Occupation(s) | Connected | CC7 | Categories |
Fran Allen (1932-2020) | Allen-46233 | Computer Scientist | Yes | 32 | No |
Gladys Mae (Brown) West (b1930) | Brown-118019 | Mathematician | Yes | 241 | No |
Mollie Orshansky (1915-2006) | Statistician | No | No | ||
Amalie Emmy Noether (1882-1935) | Noether-1 | Mathematician | Yes | 59 | No |
Annie Jean Easley (1932-2011) | McCrory-755 | Computer Scientist | No | 67 | No |
Maryam Mirzakhani (1977-2017) | میرزاخانی-1 | Mathematician | No | 0 | No |
Edna Lee Paisano (1948-2014) | Statistician | No | No | ||
Katherine Johnson (1918-2020) | Coleman-6364 | Mathematician | Yes | 643 | No |
Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) | Byron-136 | Computer Programmer | Yes | 7822 | No |
Angie Turner King (1905-2004) | Mathematician | No | No | ||
RADM Grace Brewster Hopper (1906-1992) | Murray-5111 | Computer Programmer | Yes | 267 | No |
Dorothy Vaughan (1910-2008) | Johnson-80408 | Mathematician | Yes | 88 | No |
Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) | Nightingale-64 | Statistician | Yes | 2357 | No |
Lynn Conway (1938-2024) | Computer Scientist | No | 0 | No |
Social Sciences
Sociology, anthropology, archaeology, economics, linguistics, psychology
Wikipedia | WikiTree | Occupation(s) | Connected | CC7 | Categories |
Bertha Pallan Thurston Cody (1907-1978)_ | Parker-24251 | Archaeologist | Yes | 146 | No |
Ruth (Fulton) Benedict (1887-1948) | Fulton-3639 | Anthropologist | Yes | 67 | No |
Anna Johnson Julian (1903-1994) | Johnson-66676 | Sociologist | Yes | 161 | No |
Mary Anning (1799-1847) | Anning-68 | Paleontologist | Yes | 197 | No |
Inez Beverly Prosser (1895-1934) | Psychologist | No | No | ||
Johanna Mestorf (1828-1909) | Prehistoric Archaeologist | No | No | ||
Marianne Weber (1870-1954) | Schnitger-8 | Sociologist | Yes | 101 | No |
Ursula Bellugi (1931-2022) | Linguist/ Cognitive Neuroscientist | No | No | ||
Dorothea Bleek (1873-1948) | Anthropologist | No | No | ||
Mamie Phipps Clark (1917-1983) | Phipps-1936 | Social Psychologist | Yes | 108 | No |
Carlotta Joaquina Maury (1874-1938) | Maury-268 | Paleontologist | Yes | 1638 | No |
Joan Wiffen (1922-2009) | Pedersen-13573 | Paleontologist | Yes | 222 | No |
Natural Sciences
Life science (biology), biochemistry, botany, zoology, ecology
Physical Sciences
Physics, chemistry, astronomy, earth science, geology, oceanography, meteorology
Applied Sciences
Technology, inventions, engineering, medicine
Space Science
Rocket science, solar, lunar, and planetary science, astrophysics
Wikipedia | WikiTree | Occupation(s) | Connected | CC7 | Categories |
Judith Resnik (1949-1986) | Resnik-6 | Astronaut | Yes | 421 | No |
Mary Golda Ross (1908-2008) | Ross-16191 | Aerospace Engineer | Yes | 1329 | No |
Jerrie Cobb (1931–2019) | Cobb-7241 | Mercury 13 | Yes | 1392 | No |
Virginia Norwood (1927-2023) | Tower-4592 | Aerospace Engineer | Yes | 496 | No |
Sally Ride (1951-2012) | Ride-21 | Astronaut | Yes | 270 | No |
Barbara (St John) Canright (1919-1997) | Rocket Scientist | No | No | ||
Judith Love Cohen (1933-2016) | Cohen-4747 | Aerospace engineer | Yes | 132 | No |
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See her Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Allen for a full list of her achievements.
edited by Janet Gunn