Early Civilization
- MERIT PTAH- AN EGYPTIAN PHYSICIAN WHO CONTRIBUTED IN THE FIELD OF MEDICINE
- AGLAONIKE- STUDY NATURAL PHILOSOPHY IN ANCIENT GREECE, WHO PREDICTED ECLIPSES
- THEANO- MATHEMATICIAN AND PHYSICIAN WHO WAS A PUPIL OF PHYTAGORAS
- MERY THE JEWESS- IS CREDITED WITH INVENTING SEVERAL CHEMICAL INSTRUMENT INCLUDING THE DOUBLE BOILER AND A TYPE OF STILL
- HYPORTIA OF ALEXANDRIA - WROTE TEXTS ON GEOMETRY, ALGEBRA AND ASTRONOMY AND IS CREDITED INVENTORS INCLUDING A HYDROMETER AN ASTROLABE AND AN INSTRUMENT FOR DISTILLING WATER
Scientific Revolution(16TH - 17TH Centuries)
- MARGARET CAVENDISH - ARISTOCRATIC WOMAN. WROTE NUMBER OF VERSE ON SCIENTIFIC MATTERS INCLUDING OBSERVATIONS UPON EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY.
- MARIA WINKELMANN - MADE SOME ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS INCLUDING THE DISCOVERY OF A COMET
Industrial Revolution (18TH Century)
- EMILIE AU CHATELET- TRANSLATED NEWTONS PRINCIPLE INTO FRENCH AND DEDUCED THE CONSERVATION OF ENERGY
- MARIE ANNE PIERRETTE PALIZE - BEST KNOWN SCIENTIFIC WIVES
- CAROLINE HERCHEL- DISCOVERED EIGHT COMETS
- ELTEN SWALLOW RICHARDS - CALLED FOR THE "CHRISTENING OF A NEW SCIENCE" "AEKOLOGY" (ECOLOGY).
- Mary Fairfax Somerville-She studied mathematics and astronomy, and was the second woman scientist to receive recognition in the United Kingdom after Caroline Herschel.
- Catherine Elizabeth Benson-was the first woman to earn a college bachelor's deg
- Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin-American astronomer who in 1925 was first to show that the Sun is mainly composed of hydrogen contradicting accepted wisdom at the time.
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