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Elizabeth Davis

Astronomer and mathematician who did calculations on the Ephemeres of the Sun for the Nautical Almanac and work on comet orbits.

Margaret Dorothea Rowbotham

Margaret Rowbotham was a mathematician, engineer and campaigner for the rights of women at work, and founder member of the Women’s Engineering Society.

Kathleen Booth was a computing pioneer, who helped with the crystallography analysis that contributed to the DNA structure, was a co-designer of one of the first 3 operational computers in the world, and author of 2 of the earliest books on computer design and programming.

Kate Maslen

British aeronautical researcher.

Muriel Glauert

British mathematician and aerodynamicist

Mary Emma Byrd

American astronomer and mathematician. She was director of the Smith College Observatory for 19 years and was one of the first seven women to join the New York Mathematical Society in 1891.

Susan J Cunningham

Susan Jane Cunningham was a mathematician and astronomer who founded the Mathematics and Astronomy Departments at Swarthmore College. She was one of the first seven women to join the New York Mathematical Society in 1891.

Elizabeth Georgeson

Scotland’s first female engineering graduate.

Dr Roxana Hayward Vivian

Roxana Hayward Vivian (1871-1961) was the first woman to receive a doctorate in mathematics from the University.

Vera Huckel

Vera Huckel started work at the NACA in 1939.At the time, very few women worked as computers. By 1945 she was a section head in charge of up to 17 women, having worked as mathematician, aerospace engineer, and supervisory mathematician.