List of female scientists in the 20th century

Marie Curie (1867–1934), two time Nobel Laureate
See also: List of female scientists before the 20th century and List of 21st-century women scientists

This is a historical list, intended to deal with the time period when women working in science were rare. For this reason, this list deals only with the 20th century. Some women who primarily worked in the 19th or 21st centuries may appear in a different list.

Anthropology

Margaret Mead

Archaeology

Astronomy

Biology

Barbara McClintock

Chemistry

Alice Ball

Geology

Mathematics or computer science

Science education

Engineering

Medicine

Paleoanthropology

Physics

Maria Goeppert-Mayer
Emmy Noether

Psychology

See also

Notes

  1. "Janine Connes". CWP.
  2. "Sandra Faber". CWP.
  3. "Vera Rubin". CWP.
  4. 1 2 3 Rayner-Canham & Rayner-Canham 2001
  5. "Ellen Gleditsch". CWP.
  6. "Mary L. Cartwright". CWP.
  7. Patricia C. Kenschaft (2005). Change Is Possible: Stories of Women And Minorities in Mathematics. American Mathematical Society. p. 47. ISBN 978-0-8218-3748-1. Retrieved 19 October 2012.
  8. 3935099 A US Starch-containing polymer compositions are prepared which absorb amounts of water equaling up to more than 1000 times their own weight. The compositions find many applications including their incorporation into products such as disposable diapers, surgical pads and sheets, and paper towels. US 3935099 A, Weaver, Mary Olliden; Edward B. Bagley & George F. Fanta et al., "Method of reducing water content of emulsions, suspensions, and dispersions with highly absorbent starch-containing polymeric compositions", issued 1976-01-27
  9. "Fay Ajzenberg-Selove". CWP.
  10. "Milla Baldo-Ceolin". CWP.
  11. "Katharine Blodgett". CWP.
  12. "Christiane Bonnelle". CWP.
  13. "Jenny Rosenthal Bramley". IEEE Global History Network. IEEE. 2012. Retrieved 24 October 2013.
  14. "Jennry Rosenthal Bramley". CWP.
  15. "Nina Byers". CWP.
  16. "Yvette Cauchois". CWP.
  17. "Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat". CWP.
  18. "Patricia Cladis". CWP.
  19. "Esther Conwell". CWP.
  20. "Cécile DeWitt-Morette". CWP.
  21. "Nancy M. Dowdy". CWP.
  22. "Mildred Dresselhaus". CWP.
  23. "Helen T. Edwards". CWP.
  24. "Magda Ericson". CWP.
  25. "Judy Franz". CWP.
  26. "Phyllis S. Freier". CWP.
  27. "Mary K. Gaillard". CWP.
  28. "Fanny Gates". CWP.
  29. "Maria Goeppert-Mayer". CWP.
  30. "Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber". CWP.
  31. "Sulamith Goldhaber". CWP.
  32. "Gail Hanson". CWP.
  33. "Evans Hayward". CWP.
  34. "Caroline Herzenberg". CWP.
  35. "Shirley Jackson (physicist)". CWP.
  36. "Bertha Swirls Jeffreys". CWP.
  37. "Renata Kallosh". CWP.
  38. "Berta Karlik". CWP.
  39. "Bruria Kaufman". CWP.
  40. "Marcia Keith". CWP.
  41. "Margaret Kivelson". CWP.
  42. "Noemie Benczer Koller". CWP.
  43. "Doris Kuhlmann-Wilsdorf". CWP.
  44. "Elizabeth Laird". CWP.
  45. "Juliet Lee-Franzini". CWP.
  46. "Inge Lehmann". CWP.
  47. "Kathleen Lonsdale". CWP.
  48. "Margaret Eliza Maltby". CWP.
  49. "Helen Megaw". CWP.
  50. Desanka Trbuhovic-Gjuric (1988). Im Schatten Albert Einsteins: Das tragische Leben der Mileva Einstein-Maric. Verlag Paul Haupt Bern und Stuttgart. ISBN 3258039739.
  51. "Kirstine Meyer". CWP.
  52. "Luise Meyer-Schutzmeister". CWP.
  53. "Marcia Neugebauer". CWP.
  54. "Gertrude Neumark". CWP.
  55. "Ida Tacke Noddack". CWP.
  56. "Marguerite Perey". CWP.
  57. "Melba Phillips". CWP.
  58. "Agnes Pockels". CWP.
  59. "P. Ya. Polubarinova-Kochina". CWP.
  60. "Edith Quimby". CWP.
  61. "Helen Quinn". CWP.
  62. "Myriam Sarachik". CWP.
  63. "Bice Sechi-Zorn". CWP.
  64. "Johanna Levelt Sengers". CWP.
  65. "Hertha Sponer". CWP.
  66. "Isabelle Stone". CWP.
  67. "Katharine Way". CWP.
  68. "Sau Lan Wu". CWP.
  69. "Xide Xie". CWP.
  70. Kemp, Hendrika Vande (2001). "Helen Flanders Dunbar (1902-1959)". The Feminist Psychologist 28 (1). Retrieved 24 October 2013.
  71. Duke, Carla; Fried, Stephen; Pliley, Wilma; Walker, Daley (August 1989). "Contributions to the history of psychology LIX: Rosalie Rayner Watson: The mother of a behaviorist's sons". Psychological Reports 65 (1): 163–169. doi:10.2466/pr0.1989.65.1.163.
  72. "Marianne L. Simmel (1923-2010)". American Psychologist 67 (2): 162. February–March 2012. doi:10.1037/a0026289.
  73. Brown, A. M.; Lindsey, D. T. (2013). "Infant color vision and color preferences: A tribute to Davida Teller". Visual Neuroscience 30 (5–6): 1–8. doi:10.1017/S0952523813000114. PMID 23879986.
  74. "Davida Y. "Vida" Teller, Ph.D". The Seattle Times (Seattle, WA). October 23, 2011. Retrieved November 20, 2013.

References

  • Byers, Nina. "Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics". UCLA. Retrieved 24 October 2013. 
  • Herzenberg, Caroline L. (1986). Women scientists from antiquity to the present : an index : an international reference listing and biographical directory of some notable women scientists from ancient to modern times. West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press. ISBN 0-933951-01-9. 
  • Howard, Sethanne (2006). The hidden giants. Lulu.com. ISBN 978-1430300762. 
  • Howes, Ruth H.; Herzenberg, Caroline L. (1999). Their day in the sun : women of the Manhattan Project. Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press. ISBN 1-56639-719-7. 
  • Rayner-Canham, Marelene; Rayner-Canham, Geoffrey (2001). Women in chemistry : their changing roles from alchemical times to the mid-twentieth century. Philadelphia: Chemical Heritage Foundation. ISBN 978-0941901277. 
  • Stevens, Gwendolyn; Gardner, Sheldon (1982). The women of psychology. Cambridge, Mass.: Schenkman. ISBN 9780870734434. 
  • Yount, Lisa (2007). A to Z of Women in Science and Math (Rev. ed.). New York: Infobase Pub. ISBN 9781438107950. 

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