Marguerite Perey
Prominent French physicist known for her pioneering work in radiochemistry.
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Ida Noddack
German chemist and physicist who proposed the idea of nuclear fission
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Astronomer who discovered pulsars
Margaret Huggins
Irish pioneer astrophysicist
Ālenush Teriān
Iranian-Armenian astronomer and physicist Ālenush Teriān has been called the ‘Mother of Modern Iranian Astronomy’.
Ruby Payne-Scott
Ruby Payne-Scott was an Australian pioneer in radio physics and radio astronomy, and is believed to have been the first female radio astronomer.
Dr Cathy Foley
Dr Foley became Australia’s ninth Chief Scientist in January 2021.
Elizabeth Carter
English writer of various books of prose and verse, chiefly remembered for her admirable translation of Epictetus, the first that appear in English.
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist, first woman to win a Nobel Prize
Winifred Deans
Winifred Deans graduated from Aberdeen and Cambridge. After a period in teaching she joined a Scottish publishing company and translated many important German scientific texts for them. After World War II she worked at the Commonwealth Bureau of Animal Nutrition in Aberdeen.