some women scientist

The Matilda effect is the denial of womens efforts in science.

 It was named after Matilda Joslyn Gage

Ada Lovlace wrote the first computer program in 1842

Margaret Cavendish was a pioneer in the philosophy of science

Mary Anning discovered various Jurassic fossils  

Maria Sibylla was a pioneering entomologist 

Caroline Herschel discovered some comets 

Hypatia invented the hydrometer 

Amalie Dietrich stole aboriginal human remains for science

Beatrix Potter was also a mycologist 

Lize Meitner helped discover Nuclear fission in 1938

Sofia Kovalevskaya was mathematical wunderkind

Alicia Boole discovered 4-D polytopes



Henrietta Swan Leavitt changed the theory of modern astronomy

  

Emmy Noether was a mathematical pioneer in Algebra 

Margaret Fountaine was a lepidopterist 

Marie Curie discovered radioactivity

 

Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered radio pulsars



Dorothy Maud Winch was a theoretical biochemist

A truncated tetrahedron proposed by Dorothy Maud in 1937

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin showed the sun was made of hydrogen



Hedy Lemarr co-invented spread spectrum communications 

Mary Sears was a leading oceanographer

 Betty Jennings, Fran Bilas Kay McNulty, Betty Snyder, Marlyn Wescoff, and Ruth Lichterman were pioneering computer programmers

Barbara McClintock discovered genetic transposition 

Leona Woods helped build the first atomic bomb

Grace Hopper was an early computer programmer

Rosalind Franklin contributed to the understanding of DNA



Erna Schneider invented telephone switchboard computer system still used today



Dian Fossey was a famous zoologist

Margo Wilson was a evolutionary psychologist 

Mary Allen Wilkes worked as a hardware engineer and computer programmer



Karen Sparch Jones was a computer scientist



Shafi Goldwasser is a mathematician, electrical engineer, complex computer theorist, and co-inventor of zero knowledge proofs



Jeri Ellsworth is a self taught computer chip designer



Lawrence Summers has a triple jowl