Margret Floy Washburn prevailed in the scientific community at a time when women were actively denied equal educational and professional opportunities to their male counterparts. Not only was she a pioneering psychological researcher, but she was also a prolific writer and beloved teacher. Through her hard-earned professorship, she mentored and…

No one could have predicted the magnitude of the impact Barbara Askins’s invention would have on the technological world. This was all the more enhanced by her position as a woman in the scientific domain, which was heavily male-dominated at the time. Contrary to prevailing stereotypes, her career started after…

Being made a Dame is just one of many outstanding accomplishments championed by Jocelyn Bell Burnell. The strides she made in the scientific community were enormous, both in respect to the magnitude and impact of her work, but also in regard to her feminist stance. She discovered pulsars (the incredibly…

Inge Lehmann, a prolific Danish seismologist and geophysicist, was once described as “the master of a black art for which no amount of computerizing is likely to be a complete substitute.” This description is a testament both to her methodical and rigorous approach to manually computing and comprehending raw seismological…

Maria was born Maria Margaretha Winckelmann in Panitsch, Germany. She was educated at home by her father, a Lutheran minister. He wanted an all-rounded education for Maria, which only boys would have received at the time. After her father’s death, her education was placed in the hands of her uncle…

Janet Taylor was historically known as a “Jane of all trades” due to her aptitude for numerous fields. Not only was she a prolific mathematician, but she was also a master navigator, educator, writer, astronomer, inventor, and businesswoman. Her capabilities provided innumerable sailors with advanced instruments, maps, and charts, which…

Caroline Lucretia Herschel’s contributions to astronomy were numerous and life-long. She was a woman of great respect and acclaim, with a particular feature of her disposition being her dislike for accepting any praise, for fear that it would detract from her brother’s work. This honest humility was part of what…

Euphemia Haynes was a driven sociopolitical activist, educator, and mathematician. With her personal accomplishments in mathematics and the constant pursuit of betterment and equality for African American teachers and students alike, she became an influential figure in the recent history of America’s education sector. Not only did she help countless…

Mary Wollstonecraft was born on April 27, 1759, in Spitalfields, London. She was the second of seven children, though only her brother Edward received a formal education. Her father mismanaged his inheritance from Mary’s paternal grandfather and led the family into social and financial decline. …