Olga Taussky-Todd
Olga Taussky-Todd was an Austrian-born mathematician who worked on algebraic number theory and matrix theory.
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Vera Turán Sós
Vera Sós is a Hungarian mathematician who specialises in number theory and combinatorics. She worked at the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics and has won many prizes including the Tibor Szele Medal (1974) and the Széchenyi Prize (1997).
Rózsa Péter
Rózsa Péter was a Hungarian mathematician and logician. She became a founder of recursive function theory.
Louise Hay
Louise Szmir Hay was a French-born American mathematician who worked on recursively enumerable sets and computational complexity theory.
Hilda von Mises Geiringer
Hilda Geiringer was an Austrian-born mathematician who worked in Statistics and Mechanics.
Sof’ja Janovskaja
Sof’ja Aleksandrovna Janovskaja was a Belarus-born mathematician who worked on the philosophy of mathematics and logic.
Hertha Ayrton
Hertha Ayrton was an engineer and mathematician. She was awarded the Royal Society’s Hughes Medal, and is well known as a suffragette.
Ethel Benjamin
Ethel Rebecca Benjamin was New Zealand’s first woman lawyer.
Judy Heumann
Judith “Judy” Heumann was a part of almost every pivotal moment in the disability rights movement. Considered “the mother” of the movement, she was a tireless advocate for the disabled community.
Dr Janet Yellen
Dr. Janet Yellen, confirmed in January 2021 as the first female Treasury Secretary of the United States, is no stranger to breaking glass ceilings. An economist with a lifelong commitment to making the American economy one that allows all workers to succeed, she was also the first woman to lead the Federal Reserve and the first person in history to be in charge of the Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve and the White House Council of Economic Advisors.