Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist, first woman to win a Nobel Prize
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Anna Comnena
Greek historian and scholar
Sophia Jex-Blake
In 1886 she opened the Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women, of which she was dean until her retirement in 1899. She is the author of American Schools and Colleges, Medical Women and Care of Infants.
Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova
Russian litterateur, and one of the leaders of the party that raised Catherine II to the throne
Emma Hart Willard
Leader in the American movement for the higher education of women, founder of the Troy Female Seminary, and active in the great national revival of common schools in the United States.
Ella Mary Latham
Philanthropist and medical reformer
Fabiola
Founder of the first hospital in Rome.
Eleanor Anne Ormerod
English naturalist and entomologist
Mary Ashton Livermore
Journalist, Philanthropist, and Lecturer
Williamina Paton Fleming
American astronomer; in 1879 she became an assistant at the Harvard College Observatory, and later was appointed curator of the astronomical photographs.