Mary Anning was a prolific English fossil hunter and amateur anatomist credited with the discovery of several dinosaur specimens that assisted in the early development of paleontology. Annings findings in the Jurassic marine fossil beds in Lyme Regis in Dorset contributed to changes in scientific thinking about prehistoric life and the history of the Earth. …
Evelyn Cheesman was a British entomologist best known for her solo expeditions in the South Pacific where she collected over 70,000 specimens of insects, plants and animals. Cheesman became an entomologist as she was unable to fulfil her dream of becoming a veterinarian due to her gender. At the time, the Royal College of Veterinary …
Harriette Chick was a British microbiologist, protein scientist and nutritionist. She is best remembered for demonstrating the roles of sunlight and cod liver oil in preventing rickets.
Hayat Sindi is a Saudi Arabian medical scientist and one of the first female members of the Consultative Assembly of Saudi Arabia Hayat Sindi is a biochemist who holds patents for a simple, low-tech diagnostic tool that could significantly change medical treatment in poor countries. The small, paper-like device detects disease by analyzing bodily fluids …
Flossie Wong-Staal was a molecular biologist and virologist. She was the first scientist to clone HIV and determine the function of its genes, which was a major step in proving that HIV is the cause of AIDS Flossie Wong-Staal was born in China and moved to the United States via Hong Kong. After attending the …
Christine Darden is a Aerospace engineer and mathematician who was responsible for developing the sonic boom research program at NASA. Darden was one of many data analysts working at NASA known as ‘human computers’ featured in Margot Lee Shetterly’s book Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who …
For #LGBThistorymonth I will be posting an #lgbtq #womaninhistory every day. Today is June Chan, an Asian-American lesbian activist and biologist. Chan’s activism stems from her childhood recollections of racist attitudes to people in Chinatown. In 1983, she met Katherine Hall and the two began collaborating on projects including creating a slide show of Asian …
The biography for this weeks Illustrated Woman in History was submitted by Catherine Haustein A Passion for Science: Mary Somerville Mary Somerville was born in Scotland on Dec. 26, 1780, and had four supreme passions in her life: her family, equality for women, science, and birds. Described as feminine in manner and appearance, as a girl …
Barbara Liskov is an American computer scientist. She is the winner of the 2008 A.M. Turing Award, the highest honour in computer science, for her “pioneering work in the design of computer programming languages.” Liskov was one of only two women in her class when she studied for her BA Mathematics (minoring in Physics) at University of …
Jane Goodall is an activist, primatologist and anthropologist who is considered to be the world’s foremost expert on chimpanzees. Goodall was born in London, and at a young age was given a toy chimpanzee which inspired her lifelong love of animals. She travelled to a friends farm in Kenya in 1957, where she met notable Kenyan archaeologist and …