Hertha Ayrton

Hertha Ayrton was an engineer and mathematician. She was awarded the Royal Society’s Hughes Medal, and is well known as a suffragette.

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Laura Bassi

Laura Bassi was an Italian physicist and one of the earliest women to gain a position in an Italian university.

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Hypatia

Hypatia of Alexandria (370-416), a mathematician and philosopher, one of the most eminent women teachers of antiquity, and one of the ablest of the later Greeks who preached the pagan philosophy.

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Grace Hopper

At a very young age Grace Murray Hopper showed an interest in engineering. As a child, she would often take apart household goods and put them back together. Little did her family know, her curiosity would eventually gain her recognition from the highest office in the land.

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Emmy Noether

Amalie Emmy Noether was a German mathematician who made many significant contributions to abstract algebra, despite facing anti-Semitism and being unable to get fair wages.

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Dr Maryam Mirzakhani

Maryam Mirzakhani was an Iranian mathematician and Stanford University professor of mathematics. Her research areas included Teichmüller theory, hyperbolic geometry, ergodic theory, and symplectic geometry. In 2005, as a result of her research, she was acknowledged in Popular Science’s fourth annual “Brilliant 10” as one of the top 10 young minds who have pushed their fields in innovative directions.
On 13 August 2014, Mirzakhani received the Fields Medal, the most prestigious award in mathematics, for her work in “the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces”. She was the first woman and the first Iranian to be honored with the award.

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Sofia Kovalevskaya

Sofia Kovalevskaya was the first woman in Europe to earn a doctorate in mathematics, and went on to become the first female appointed as a professor in the field.

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Dr Zvezdelina Stankova

Dr Zvezdelina Entcheva Stankova is a professor of mathematics at Mills College in California and a teaching professor at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the founder of the Berkeley Math Circle, and an expert in the combinatorial enumeration of permutations with forbidden patterns. She has been awarded the Alice T. Schafer Prize (1992) and the Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award (2011).

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