Beginnings -- Anne Pyne Cowley (PhD, 1963) : navigating my life with the stars -- Ann Merchant Boesgaard (PhD, 1966) : making things work -- Sidney Wolff (PhD, 1966) : changing the landscape -- ...
1. Enheduanna (XXIV BC) -- 2. Aganice (XX BC) -- 3. Theano (sixth century BC) -- 4. Aglaonike (V BC or 200 BC) -- 5. Hypatia of Alexandria (355 or 370 ca. to 415 ...
A powerful new telescope will usher in a new era of cosmic discovery, but in a political climate vastly different from when it was named for a once overlooked female astronomer. Vera C. Rubin, the ...
Maria Mitchell, the first widely recognized American woman scientist, gained international acclaim after discovering a comet in 1847. As Vassar College’s first astronomy professor, she advanced ...
Left in the shadows for centuries, women scientists will soon have the spotlight they deserve, in the truest sense of the ...
In her groundbreaking trilogy, “Women Scientists in America,” she told the stories of numerous accomplished but largely invisible women. By Penelope Green Margaret W. Rossiter, a historian whose ...