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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.

Jean Jennings Bartik

Jean Bartik was an American mathematician famous as one of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer.

Ada Lovelace

Mathematician who wrote code for computers before they even existed, making her the first computer programmer

Kathleen McNulty Antonelli

Kathleen McNulty Antonelli was an Irish-born American computer programmer who was one of the first to work with the early ENIAC machine.

Tatiana Ehrenfest-Afanassjewa

Tatiana Alexeyevna Afanassjewa was a Ukrainian-born Dutch mathematician and physicist who made contributions to the fields of statistical mechanics and statistical thermodynamics.

German abbess and mystic who organized a school of nurses for service in the hospitals; noted composer whose works are still performed today, as well as a brewer and herbalist who described using hops in beer.

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.

Emily Siedeberg

Emily Siedeberg was a woman of strength and determination, who rarely gave up once she had set her mind on something. Courageous and dignified, she proved herself a model woman doctor for the period by using her professional skills in the traditional female sphere of community service.