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Women in Science and Mathematics (view source)
Revision as of 02:17, June 29, 2011
, 02:17, June 29, 2011A little more detail. Addressing the controversy; see talk in a few minutes. (I'm impressed that Meitnerium wasn't a red link, by the way.)
Here are a few:
Here are a few:
*[[Marie Sklodowska Curie]] (physicist/chemist) - discovered [[radium]], namesake of [[curium]]
*[[Marie Sklodowska Curie]]—Physicist/chemist, discovered [[Polonium]] and [[Radium]], namesake of [[Curium]].
*Lise Meitner (physicist)
*Lise Meitner—Physicist, discovered nuclear fission, with Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassner. Namesake of [[Meitnerium]].
*Emma Noether (mathematician)
*Emma Noether (mathematician)
*Ida Noddack (physicist)
*Ida Noddack (physicist)
*Jocelyn Bell (astronomer)
*Jocelyn Bell—Astronomer, discovered the first quasar.
*[[Grace Murray Hopper]] (one of the world's first [[computer programmer]]s, helped devise the first high-level computer language, [[COBOL]])
*[[Grace Murray Hopper]]—A very early [[computer programmer]], led the development of the first high-level computer language, [[COBOL]].
*[[Ada Lovelace]] (worked with computer pioneer [[Charles Babbage]])
*[[Ada Lovelace]]—Collaborated with [[Charles Babbage]] on what was arguably the first computer (though it was never built) and arguably the first computer programmer (though there is controversy on this.)