Maria Cunitz
Maria Cunitz was an astronomer who published simpler versions of Kepler’s work.
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Doris Clifton Gordon
Throughout her career Doris Gordon had the welfare of mothers and children at heart. She believed her male colleagues in the Health Department did not know what they were talking about when they promoted natural childbirth and claimed that even stitches after a birth ‘do not hurt much’. She wanted the same facilities available for all women, and was convinced that the best services were doctor-controlled.
Amy Castle
Amy Castle was the first entomologist and the first woman appointed in a professional role in a New Zealand museum. She was also one of the first women to be employed in a scientific position in the New Zealand public service.
Constance Helen Frost
Constance Helen Frost remained on the staff at Auckland Hospital for nearly 17 years and until 1913 she was the only woman doctor.
Caroline Herschel
Caroline Herschel recorded the observations and did the calculations on the data of her astronomer brother William.
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was a British mathematician and astronomer who did important work for her Ph.D. at Radcliffe College of Harvard University. She showed that stars were composed almost entirely of hydrogen and helium but, although completely correct, it was rejected by astronomers at the time.
Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat
Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat is a French mathematician and physicist who made important contributions to the general theory of relativity. She was the first woman to be elected to the French Academy of Sciences.
Lene Hau
Lene Hau is a Danish physicist and mathematician. She has led a team at Harvard University who have slowed light and in 2001 succeeded in stopping a beam of light. This has important applications to quantum computing.
Henrietta Swan Leavitt
Henrietta Leavitt was an American astronomer who discovered the relation between the luminosity and the period of Cepheid variables. This was a vital step in measuring the distance to remote galaxies.
Nicole-Reine Lepaute
Nicole-Reine Lepaute was a French noblewoman who helped Lalande with astronomical calculations.