Christine Ladd-Franklin
Christine Ladd-Franklin was an American psychologist, logician and mathematician who was one of the earliest women to work in American universities.
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Agnes Mary Clerke
Agnes Mary Clerke was an Irish astronomer and writer on both astronomy and biography.
Annie Scott Dill Maunder
Annie Scott Dill Maunder was a Northern Irish astronomer and mathematician who studied the mathematical tripos at Cambridge then worked at the Royal Observatory Greenwich. She was the first to find evidence of the movement of sunspot emergence from the poles toward the equator over the sun’s 11-year cycle.
Ida Rhodes
Ida Rhodes was born in the Ukraine but emigrated to the United States as a teenager. She studied mathematics and had a variety of jobs before joining the Mathematical Tables Project in New York City. She did important work on the development of computers.
Edith Hirsch Luchins
Edith Luchins was a Polish-American mathematician who applied mathematical methods to problems in the philosophy of science and psychology.
Gertrude Blanch
Gertrude Blanch was a Polish born American mathematician who did pioneering work in numerical analysis and computation.
Amélie Harlay
Amélie Harlay was a French astronomer who published navigational tables and catalogues of stars.
Florence Marie Harsant
Temperance worker, nurse, community leader, writer
Sophie Germain
Sophie Germain made a major contributions to number theory (in particular, the theory of primes), acoustics and elasticity.
Dorothy Maud Wrinch
Dorothy Maud Wrinch was an Argentinian-English-American mathematician and biochemist famous for her use of mathematical techniques to deduce protein structure.