Forces of Nature: The Women Who Changed Science, Anna Reser and Leila McNeill, c. 2021

Some notes hastily taken from a book at local library while traveling.

Forces of Nature: The Women Who Changed Science, Anna Reser and Leila McNeill, c. 2021.

Egypt: medicine -- grannies

Hildegard of Bingen, 1098 - 1179

Maria Cunitz, Urania Propitia, 1650

Halley's Comet

• Alexis-Claude Clairaut
• Nicole-Reine Lepaute
• Jérôme Lalande

1788: double portrait

• Marie-Anne Paulze
• Antoine Lavoisier
• one of the most famous scientific couples in history

Jeanne Baret

Maria Sibylla Merian

Jane Marcet

Margaret Gatty

Priscilla Wakefield

Lydia Becker

Lilian Wald: nursing theory.

Mary Mahoney

Elizabeth Blackwell

Geneva Medical College New York

Anna Fischer Dückelman

Marie Stopes

Eugenicist

Leona Woods, 1919 - 1986

• University of Chicago
• Fermi's lab
• Manhattan Project

Dorothy Klumpke, 1861 - 1942

Williamina P. Fleming

Anne Jump Cannon and Henrietta Susan Leavitt

Lillian Moller Gilbreth

Kitty Marion

 

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