Inventors
The art of giving birth by Louise Bourgeois Boursier
Louise Bourgeois, also known as La Boursier, is a French midwife and the first to write a book on problems related to childbirth. […]
Women of science
Chemistry
Marie Curie, international radiancy
Marie Sklodowska-Curie, better known as Marie Curie, is the most famous scientist. Physicist and chemist of Polish origin, she is naturalized French. To date, she is the only woman to have received two Nobel prizes for her work on natural radioactivity. […]
Botany
Barbara McClintock, a geneticist who had the guts to impose her ideas
Barbara McClintock is a famous American geneticist. Certainly one of the brightest in the 20th century. […]
Astronomy
Cecilia Payne-Gaposhckin, a star among the stars
Cecilia Payne-Gaposhckin is an Anglo-American astronomer. She is one of the first astronomers to demonstrate that the composition of stars is primarily made of hydrogen and helium. […]
Inventors
Froufrou and compass, the prodigeous Emilie du Châtelet
Émilie du Châtelet is the first learned woman in the history of modern science. […]
Chemistry
Marie Meurdrac, the first chemist and feminist
Mary Meurdrac, the first real French chemist to serve poor women. Marie Meurdrac A serious […]
Inventors
Hypathia of Alexandria, the first mathematician
Hypatia of Alexandria is the first female mathematician. She was born in Greece in 360 […]
Inventors
Marie Gaetana Agnesi
Marie Gaetana Agnesi is an Italian mathematician but also a child prodigy. […]
Heritage
Mary Anning
Mary Anning, the first Paleonthologist woman. She discovered many fossils of Ichthyosaurs and Pterodactylus Macronyx. […]