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Abella
Abella, often known as Abella of Salerno or Abella of Castellomata, was a physician in the mid fourteenth century.
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Abrotelia
Abrotelia (5th century BC) was a female Pythagorean philosopher.
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Ada Lovelace
Augusta Ada King-Noel, Countess of Lovelace (née Byron; 10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852) was an English mathematician and writer, chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine.
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Adelaida Lukanina
Adelaida N. Lukanina, née Rykacheva, later Paevskaia (1843-1908) was a Russian physician and chemist known for her chemical research and for being an early woman physician in the United States.
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Adelle of the Saracens
Adelle of the Saracens (active 12th century), was an Italian physician.
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Adelmota of Carrara
Adelmota of Carrara (early 14th-century) was an Italian physician.
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Aemilia Hilaria
Aemilia Hilaria (c. 300 – c. 363) was a Gallo-Roman physician.
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Aesara
Aesara of Lucania (Αἰσάρα Aisara; 4th or 3rd century BC) was a Pythagorean philosopher who wrote On Human Nature, of which a fragment is preserved by Stobaeus.
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Agamede
Agamede (Ancient Greek: Ἀγαμήδη) was a name attributed to two separate women in classical Greek mythology and legendary history.
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Aglaonice
Aglaonice or Aganice of Thessaly (Ἀγλαονίκη, Aglaoníkē) was a Greek astronomer of the 2nd or 1st century BC.
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Agnes Block
Agnes, or Agneta Block (29 October 1629, Emmerich am Rhein – 20 April 1704, Amsterdam) was a Dutch Mennonite art collector and horticulturalist.
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Agnes Ibbetson
Agnes Ibbetson (1757–1823), was an English plant physiologist.
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Agnes Mary Clerke
Agnes Mary Clerke (10 February 1842 – 20 January 1907) was an astronomer and writer, mainly in the field of astronomy.
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Agnes Pockels
Agnes Luise Wilhelmine Pockels (February 14, 1862 – November 21, 1935), was a German pioneer in chemistry.
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Agnodice
Agnodice or Agnodike (Ἀγνοδίκη, c. 4th century BCE) was supposedly the first female midwife or physician in ancient Athens.
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Albertina Carlsson
Albertina Carlsson (12 June 1848 – 1930), was a Swedish zoologist.
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Alessandra Giliani
Alessandra Giliani (1307-1326) was an Italian scientist, best known as the first woman to be recorded in historical documents as practicing anatomy and pathology.
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Aletta Jacobs
Aletta Henriëtte Jacobs (9 February 1854 – 10 August 1929) was a Dutch physician and women's suffrage activist.
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Alexandra Smirnoff
Alexandra Smirnoff (6 May 1838, Vaasa – 25 September 1913) was a Finnish scientist, pomologist and writer.
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Alice Catherine Evans
Alice Catherine Evans (January 29, 1881 – September 5, 1975) was an American microbiologist.
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Alice Cunningham Fletcher
Alice Cunningham Fletcher (March 15, 1838 in HavanaApril 6, 1923 in Washington, D.C.) was an American ethnologist, anthropologist, and social scientist who studied and documented American Indian culture.
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Alice Eastwood
Alice Eastwood (January 19, 1859 – October 30, 1953) was a Canadian American botanist.
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Alice Johnson (zoologist)
Alice Johnson (7 July 1860 – 13 January 1940) was an English zoologist.
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Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps
Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps (July 15, 1793 – July 15, 1884) was a 19th-century American educator, author, and editor.
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Amalia Assur
Amalia Assur (June 8, 1803 – 1889) was the first female dentist in Sweden.
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Amalie Dietrich
Koncordie Amalie Dietrich (née Nelle) (26 May 1821 – 9 March 1891) was a German naturalist who was best known for her pioneering work in Australia, where she spent ten years collecting specimens for the Museum Godeffroy in Hamburg.
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Amelia Griffiths
Amelia Griffiths (1768–1858), often referred to in contemporary works as Mrs Griffiths of Torquay, was a beachcomber and amateur phycologist who made many important collections of algae specimens, including the ceramium botryocarpum in 1844.
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Angélique du Coudray
Angélique Marguerite Le Boursier du Coudray (c. 1712 – 17 April 1794) was an influential, pioneering midwife during her lifetime, who gained fame when men were taking over the field.
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Ann Baynard
Ann Baynard (sometimes spelled Anne) (Born 1672 Preston, Lancashire, England - 12 June 1697, Barnes, Surrey) was a British natural philosopher and model of piety.
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Anna Atkins
Anna Atkins (née Children; 16 March 1799 – 9 June 1871) was an English botanist and photographer.
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Anna Åkerhielm
Anna Åkerhielm or Åkerhjelm, née Anna Agriconia (1642 – 11 February 1698), was a Swedish writer and traveller.
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Anna Barbara Reinhart
Anna Barbara Reinhart (12 July 1730 – 5 January 1796), was a Swiss mathematician.
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Anna Botsford Comstock
Anna Botsford Comstock (September 1, 1854 – August 24, 1930) was an American artist, educator, conservationist, and a leader of the nature study movement.
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Anna Maria Walker
Anna Maria Walker (née Patton) (c. 1778–1852) and her husband Colonel George Warren Walker (1778–1843) were Scottish botanists in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) who made extensive collections of plants between 1830 and 1838.
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Anna Morandi Manzolini
Anna Morandi Manzolini (21 January 1714 – 9 July 1774) was an internationally known anatomist and anatomical wax modeler, as lecturer of anatomical design at the University of Bologna.
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Anna Stecksén
Anna Magdalena Stecksén (May 27, 1870–October 15, 1904) was a Swedish scientist, physician and pathologist.
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Anna Sundström
Anna Sundström, born as Anna Christina Persdotter, (26 February 1785 in Kymlinge, Spånga – 1871), was a Swedish chemist.
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Anna Vickers
Anna Vickers (28 June 1852 – 1 August 1906) was a marine algologist and plant collector known principally for her work on algae of the Antilles and the Canary Islands.
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Anna Volkova
Anna Feodorovna Volkova (Анна Федоровна Волкова, d. 1876), was a Russian chemist working predominantly with amides.
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Anna Winlock
Anna Winlock (born September 15, 1857 in Cambridge, Massachusetts; died January 4, 1904) was an American astronomer and daughter of Joseph Winlock and Isabella Lane.
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Annie Jump Cannon
Annie Jump Cannon (December 11, 1863 – April 13, 1941) was an American astronomer whose cataloging work was instrumental in the development of contemporary stellar classification.
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Annie Lorrain Smith
Annie Lorrain Smith (23 October 1854 – 7 September 1937) was a British lichenologist whose Lichens (1921) was an essential textbook for several decades.
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Annie Russell Maunder
Annie Russell Maunder (14 April 1868 – 15 September 1947) was a Northern Irish astronomer and mathematician.
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Antonia Maury
Antonia Maury (March 21, 1866 – January 8, 1952) was an American astronomer who published an important early catalog of stellar spectra.
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Anyte of Tegea
Anyte of Tegea (Ἀνύτη Τεγεᾶτις, Anýtē Tegeâtis; fl. early 3rd century BC) was an Arcadian poet.
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Aphra Behn
Aphra Behn (14 December 1640? (baptismal date)–16 April 1689) was a British playwright, poet, translator and fiction writer from the Restoration era.
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Arete of Cyrene
Arete of Cyrene (Ἀρήτη; fl. 5th–4th century BC) was a Cyrenaic philosopher who lived in Cyrene, Libya.
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Artemisia II of Caria
Artemisia II of Caria (Greek: Ἀρτεμισία; died 350 BCE) was a naval strategist, commander and the sister, the wife, and the successor of Mausolus, ruler of Caria, the Persian satrap; Mausolus enjoyed the status of king or dynast of the Hecatomnid dynasty.
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Asclepigenia
Asclepigenia (Ἀσκληπιγένεια; 430 – 485 AD) was an Athenian philosopher and mystic.
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Aspasia
Aspasia (Ἀσπασία; c. 470 BCD. Nails, The People of Plato, Hackett Publishing pp 58–59 – c. 400 BC)A.E. Taylor, Plato: The Man and his Work, 41 was an influential immigrant to Classical-era Athens who was the lover and partner of the statesman Pericles.
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Aspasia the Physician
Aspasia (ca 4th century AD) was an ancient Greek, Athenian physician that concentrated on obstetrics and gynecology.
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Axiothea of Phlius
Axiothea of Phlius (Ἀξιοθέα Φλειασία fl. c. 350 BCE) was a female student of Plato and Speusippus.
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Émilie du Châtelet
Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise Du Châtelet (17 December 1706 – 10 September 1749) was a French natural philosopher, mathematician, physicist, and author during the early 1730s until her untimely death due to childbirth in 1749.
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Beatrice Webb
Martha Beatrice Webb, Baroness Passfield, (née Potter; 22 January 1858 – 30 April 1943), was an English sociologist, economist, socialist, labour historian and social reformer.
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Beatrix Potter
Helen Beatrix Potter (British English, North American English also, 28 July 186622 December 1943) was an English writer, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist best known for her children's books featuring animals, such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit.
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Caerellia
Caerellia (fl. 1st c. BCE) was a Roman lady distinguished for her philosophical pursuits.
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Caroline Herschel
Caroline Lucretia Herschel (16 March 1750 – 9 January 1848) was a German astronomer, whose most significant contributions to astronomy were the discoveries of several comets, including the periodic comet 35P/Herschel–Rigollet, which bears her name.
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Caterina Scarpellini
Caterina Scarpellini (29 October 1808 – 28 November 1873), was an Italian astronomer and meteorologist.
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Caterina Vitale
Caterina Vitale (1566-1619) was the first female pharmacist and chemist in Malta, and the first female pharmacist of the Knights Hospitaller.
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Catharine Littlefield Greene
Catharine Littlefield "Caty" Greene Miller (17 February 1755 – 2 September 1814) was the wife of the American Revolutionary War general Nathanael Greene.
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Catharine Macaulay
Catharine Macaulay (née Sawbridge; 23 March 1731 – 22 June 1791), later Catharine Graham, was an English Whig republican historian.
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Catharine van Tussenbroek
Catharine van Tussenbroek (4 August 1852 – 5 May 1925) was a Dutch physician and feminist.
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Catherine de Parthenay
Catherine de Parthenay (22 March 1554 – 26 October 1631) was a French noblewoman and mathematician.
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Catherine Jérémie
Catherine Jérémie (1664-1744), was a French midwife and botanist.
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Celia Grillo Borromeo
Clelia Grillo Borromeo Arese or Celia Grillo Borromeo (1684 – 23 August 1777) was an Italian (Genovese) mathematician and scientist.
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Charlotta Frölich
Charlotta Frölich (28 November 1698 – 21 July 1770) was a Swedish writer, historian, agronomist and poet.
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Charlotte De Bernier Taylor
Charlotte De Bernier Taylor (1806 – 26 November 1861) was an American entomologist.
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Charlotte Murchison
Charlotte Murchison (née Hugonin; 18 April 1788 – 9 February 1869) was a Scottish amateur geologist.
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman; also Charlotte Perkins Stetson (July 3, 1860 – August 17, 1935), was a prominent American feminist, sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform.
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Charlotte von Siebold
Marian Theodore Charlotte Heidenreich von Siebold (12 September 1788 – 8 July 1859) was a German physician.
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Christine Kirch
Christine Kirch (1696 in Guben, Germany – 6 May 1782), was a German astronomer.
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Christine Ladd-Franklin
Christine Ladd-Franklin (December 1, 1847 – March 5, 1930) was an American psychologist, logician, and mathematician.
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Clara Eaton Cummings
Clara Eaton Cummings (13 July 1855 – 28 December 1906) was an American cryptogamic botanist and Hunnewell Professor of Cryptogamic Botany at Wellesley College in Massachusetts.
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Clarice di Durisio
Clarice di Durisio da Foggia (fl. 15th century), was an Italian physician and surgeon.
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Clémence Royer
Clémence Royer (21 April 1830 – 6 February 1902) was a self-taught French scholar who lectured and wrote on economics, philosophy, science and feminism.
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Clelia Durazzo Grimaldi
Clelia Durazzo Grimaldi (1760–1830), also known as Clelia Durazzo, was a botanist and marchesa in Genoa, Italy.
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Cleopatra the Alchemist
Cleopatra the Alchemist who likely lived during the 3rd century, was a Greek Egyptian alchemist, author, and philosopher.
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Clotilde Tambroni
Clotilde Tambroni (29 June 1758 – 2 June 1817), was an Italian philologist, linguist and poet.
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Constance Calenda
Constance (Costanza or Constanza) Calenda (fl. 1415) was an Italian surgeon specializing in diseases of the eye Calenda was the daughter of Salvator Calenda, the dean of the faculty of medicine at the University of Salerno in about 1415, and afterwards dean of the faculty at Naples.
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Cornelia Clapp
Cornelia Maria Clapp (March 17, 1849 – December 31, 1934) was an American zoologist and academic specializing in marine biology.
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Cornelia Horsford
Cornelia Horsford (1861–1941?) was an American archaeologist and writer whose work focused on the Norse settlement of Vinland and other possible traces of early Norse exploration and settlement of North America, especially in Massachusetts.
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Cristina Roccati
Cristina Roccati (24 October 1732 in Rovigo – 16 March 1797 in Rovigo) was an Italian scholar and poet.
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Dame Péronelle
Dame Péronelle (floruit in 1292–1319), was a French herbalist physician.
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Damo (philosopher)
Damo (Δαμώ; fl. c. 500 BC) was a Pythagorean philosopher said by many to have been the daughter of Pythagoras and Theano.
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Diotima of Mantinea
Diotima of Mantinea (Διοτίμα; Diotīma) was a philosopher and priestess circa 440 B.C.E. who plays an important role in Plato's Symposium.
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Dobrodeia of Kiev
Dobrodeia of Kiev (died after 1122), was a Byzantine princess and author.
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Dorotea Bucca
Dorotea Bucca (1360–1436) (also Dorotea Bocchi) was an Italian physician.
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Dorothea Erxleben
Dorothea Christiane Erxleben née Leporin (13 November 1715, Quedlinburg – 13 June 1762 in Quedlinburg) was the first female medical doctor in Germany.
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Edith Humphrey
Edith Ellen Humphrey (11 September 1875 – 25 February 1978) was a British inorganic chemist who carried out pioneering work in co-ordination chemistry at the University of Zurich under Alfred Werner.
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Edith Marion Patch
Edith Marion Patch (27 July 1876–1954) was an American entomologist and writer.
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Eleanor Anne Ormerod
Eleanor Anne Ormerod (11 May 1828 – 19 July 1901) was an English entomologist.
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Eleanor Glanville
Lady Eleanor Glanville (c. 1654 – 1709) was a 17th-century English entomologist from Tickenham in Somerset.
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Elena Cornaro Piscopia
Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia, also Helen Cornaro (5 June 1646 – 26 July 1684), was a Venetian philosopher of noble descent, who was one of the first women to receive an academic degree from a university and in 1678 she became the first woman in the world to receive a Ph.D. degree.
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Elephantis
Elephantis (fl. late 1st century BC) was a Greek poet and physician apparently renowned in the classical world as the author of a notorious sex manual.
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Elinor Sneshell
Elinor Sneshell (fl. 1593) was a female barber surgeon who was active during the reign of Elizabeth I of England.
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Elisabeth Christina von Linné
Elisabeth Christina von Linné (1743–1782), was a Swedish botanist, daughter of Carl von Linné and Sara Elisabeth Moræa.
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Elisabeth Hevelius
Elisabeth Catherina Koopmann Hevelius (in Polish also called Elżbieta Heweliusz) (January 17, 1647–December 22, 1693) is considered one of the first female astronomers, and called "the mother of moon charts".
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Elisabeth of the Palatinate
Elisabeth of the Palatinate (26 December 1618 – 11 February 1680), also known as Elisabeth of Bohemia, Princess Elisabeth of the Palatinate, or Princess-Abbess of Herford Abbey, was the eldest daughter of Frederick V, Elector Palatine (who was briefly King of Bohemia), and Elizabeth Stuart.
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Elisabetta Fiorini Mazzanti
Elisabetta Fiorini Mazzanti (3 June 1799 – 23 April 1879), was an Italian botanist.
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Eliza Lucas
Eliza Lucas Pinckney (December 28, 1722 May 26, 1793) changed agriculture in colonial South Carolina, where she developed indigo as one of its most important cash crops.
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Elizabeth Andrew Warren
Elizabeth Andrew Warren (1786–1864) was a Cornish botanist and marine algologist who spent most of her career collecting along the southern coast of Cornwall.
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Elizabeth Blackwell
Elizabeth Blackwell (3 February 1821 – 31 May 1910) was a British physician, notable as the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States and the first woman on the Medical Register of the General Medical Council.
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Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz
Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz (née Cary) (December 5, 1822 – June 27, 1907) was an American educator, and the co-founder and first president of Radcliffe College.
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Elizabeth Cellier
Elizabeth Cellier (commonly known as Mrs. Cellier and dubbed the "Popish Midwife"), flourished 1668–1688, London, England, was a notable Catholic midwife in seventeenth-century England.
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Elizabeth D. A. Cohen
Elizabeth D. A. Magnus Cohen (February 22, 1820 – May 28, 1921) was the first woman licensed to practice medicine in the state of Louisiana in the United States.
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Elizabeth Fulhame
Elizabeth Fulhame (fl. 1794) was a Scottish chemist who invented the concept of catalysis and discovered photoreduction.
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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (9 June 1836 – 17 December 1917) was an English physician and suffragist.
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Elizabeth Philpot
Elizabeth Philpot (1780–1857) was an early 19th-century British fossil collector, amateur palaeontologist and artist who collected fossils from the cliffs around Lyme Regis in Dorset on the southern coast of England.
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Elizabeth Walker (pharmacist)
Elizabeth Walker (12 July 1623 - 23 February 1690) was a British druggist known for her charity and piety.
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Ellen Churchill Semple
Ellen Churchill Semple (January 8, 1863 – May 8, 1932) was an American geographer and the first female president of the Association of American Geographers.
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Ellen Eglin
Ellen Eglin (1849- after 1890) was an African-American inventor who invented a clothes wringer for washing machines.
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Ellen Hutchins
Ellen Hutchins (1785–1815) was an early Irish botanist.
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Ellen Swallow Richards
Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (December 3, 1842 – March 30, 1911) was an industrial and safety engineer, environmental chemist, and university faculty member in the United States during the 19th century.
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Elsa Beata Bunge
Elsa Beata Bunge, née Wrede, (18 April 1734 – 19 January 1819), was a Swedish, botanist, writer and noble.
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Emilie Martin
Emilie Norton Martin (30 December 1869, in Elizabeth, New Jersey – 8 February 1936) was an American mathematician and professor of mathematics at Mount Holyoke College.
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Emilie Snethlage
Maria Emilie Snethlage (April 13, 1868 – November 25, 1929) was a German-born Brazilian naturalist and ornithologist who worked on the bird fauna of the Amazon.
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Emily Arnesen
Emily Arnesen (14 June 1867 – 13 August 1928) was a Norwegian zoologist.
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Emily Blackwell
Emily Blackwell (October 8, 1826 – September 7, 1910) was the second woman to earn a medical degree at what is now Case Western Reserve University, and the third woman (after Elizabeth Blackwell and Lydia Folger Fowler) to earn a medical degree in the United States.
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Emily Warren Roebling
Emily Warren Roebling (September 23, 1843 – February 28, 1903) is known for her contribution to the completion of the Brooklyn Bridge after her husband Washington Roebling developed caisson disease.
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Emmy Noether
Amalie Emmy NoetherEmmy is the Rufname, the second of two official given names, intended for daily use.
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Emmy Rappe
Emmy Carolina Rappe (14 January 1835 – 19 October 1896) was a Swedish nurse and principal for a nursing school.
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Enheduanna
Enheduanna (Sumerian:, also transliterated as Enheduana, En-hedu-ana, or variants; fl. 23rd century BC) "ca.
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Enriqueta Favez
Enriqueta Favez (c. 1791 – 1856) was a Swiss physician and surgeon who practiced medicine in the Napoleonic Wars and in Cuba.
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Ethel Sargant
Ethel Sargant (28 October 1863 – 16 January 1918) was a British botanist who studied both the cytology and morphology of plants.
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Etheldred Benett
Etheldred Benett (July 22, 1776 – January 11, 1845) was an early English geologist often credited with being the "First Female Geologist".
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Eva Ekeblad
Eva Ekeblad (née Eva De la Gardie; 10 July 1724 – 15 May 1786) was a Swedish countess who was a salon hostess, agronomist, and scientist.
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Faustina Pignatelli
Faustina Pignatelli Carafa, princess di Colubrano (1705-1785; died in Naples), was an Italian scientist.
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Florence Bascom
Florence Bascom (July 14, 1862 – June 18, 1945) was the second woman to earn her Ph.D in geology in the United States, and the first woman to receive a Ph.D from Johns Hopkins University.
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Florence Cushman
Florence Cushman (1860-1940) was an American astronomer who worked on the Henry Draper catalogue.
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Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale, (12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was an English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing.
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Florence R. Sabin
Florence Rena Sabin (November 9, 1871 – October 3, 1953) was an American medical scientist.
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Floruit
Floruit, abbreviated fl. (or occasionally, flor.), Latin for "he/she flourished", denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active.
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Fourth Dynasty of Egypt
The Fourth Dynasty of ancient Egypt (notated Dynasty IV or Dynasty 4) is characterized as a "golden age" of the Old Kingdom of Egypt.
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Frances Micklethwait
Frances Mary Gore Micklethwait (1867– 25 March 1950),F.
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Frances Stackhouse Acton
Frances Stackhouse Acton (née Knight; 7 July 1794 – 24 January 1881), known as Fanny, was a British botanist, archaeologist, writer and artist.
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Friederike Lienig
Friederike Lienig (December 8, 1790 – 7 June, 1855) was a Latvian entomologist.
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Funeral
A funeral is a ceremony connected with the burial, cremation, or interment of a corpse, or the burial (or equivalent) with the attendant observances.
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Gabrielle Howard
Gabrielle Louise Caroline Howard (née Matthaei; 3 October 1876 – 18 August 1930), usually cited as G. L. C. Matthaei, was a British plant physiologist and economic botanist who advocated organic farming.
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Gargi Vachaknavi
Gargi Vachaknavi (born about c. 7th century BCE) was an ancient Indian philosopher.
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Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville
Marie Geneviève Charlotte Thiroux d'Arconville (née Darlus, also known as la présidente Thiroux d’Arconville and Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville) (17 October 1720 – 23 December 1805), was a French novelist, translator and chemist who is known for her study on putrefaction.
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Giuseppa Barbapiccola
Giuseppa Eleonora Barbapiccola (1702 – ca 1740) was an Italian natural philosopher, poet and translator.
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Guillemette du Luys
Guillemette du Luys (fl. 1479), was a French surgeon in service of king Louis XI of France.
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Gynaecology
Gynaecology or gynecology (see spelling differences) is the medical practice dealing with the health of the female reproductive systems (vagina, uterus, and ovaries) and the breasts.
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Hanna Hammarström
Hanna Hammarström (Stockholm, 4 November 1829 – 1909), was a Swedish inventor and industrialist.
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Harriet Henrietta Beaufort
Harriet Henrietta Beaufort (1778–1865) was a late 18th-century/early 19th-century British botanist, born in Ireland.
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Harriet Mann Miller
Harriet Mann Miller (pen names Olive Thorne, Olive Thorne Miller; 25 June 1831 – 25 December 1918) was an American author, naturalist, and ornithologist.
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Hazel Schmoll
Hazel Marguerite Schmoll (1890–1990) was an American botanist, and the first to conduct a systematic study of plant life in southwestern Colorado.
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Hedda Andersson
Hedda Albertina Andersson (24 April 1861, Malmö - 7 September 1950, Lund), was a Swedish physician.
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Hedvig Eleonora Klingenstierna
Hedvig Eleonora Beata Klingenstierna (born 1660), was a Swedish noblewoman.
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Helen Abbott Michael
Helen Cecilia De Silver Abbott Michael, M.D. (December 23, 1857 – November 29, 1904) was an American scientist who was among the first to "in a systematic way study the relation of chemical composition to species of plants and to plant growth." Michael theorized that the chemical composition of plants over the course of their development provided an illustration for the theory of evolution.
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Helen Dean King
Helen Dean King (1869-1955) was an American biologist.
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Henrietta Swan Leavitt
Henrietta Swan Leavitt (July 4, 1868 – December 12, 1921) was an American astronomer who discovered the relation between the luminosity and the period of Cepheid variable stars.
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Hertha Ayrton
Phoebe Sarah Hertha Ayrton (28 April 1854 – 23 August 1923) was a British engineer, mathematician, physicist and inventor.
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Hildegard of Bingen
Hildegard of Bingen (Hildegard von Bingen; Hildegardis Bingensis; 1098 – 17 September 1179), also known as Saint Hildegard and Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German Benedictine abbess, writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, visionary, and polymath.
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Huang Lü
Huang Lü (fl. 1769–1829), was a Chinese scientist.
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Hypatia
Hypatia (born 350–370; died 415 AD) was a Hellenistic Neoplatonist philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician, who lived in Alexandria, Egypt, then part of the Eastern Roman Empire.
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Ida Freund
Ida Freund (15 April 1863 – 15 May 1914) was the first woman to be a university chemistry lecturer in the United Kingdom.
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Ida Henrietta Hyde
Ida Henrietta Hyde (September 8, 1857 – August 22, 1945) was an American physiologist known for developing a micro-electrode powerful enough to stimulate tissue chemically or electronically, yet small enough to inject or remove tissue from a cell.
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Isabella Bird
Isabella Lucy Bird, married name Bishop (15 October 1831 – 7 October 1904), was a nineteenth-century English explorer, writer, photographer, and naturalist.
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Isabella Cortese
Isabella Cortese (fl. 1561), was an Italian alchemist and writer of the Renaissance.
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Isala Van Diest
Anne Catherine Albertine Isala Van Diest (Louvain, Belgium 7 May 1842–Ixelles, Belgium 6 February 1916), better known by the name Isala Van Diest, was the first female medical doctor and the first female university graduate in Belgium.
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Isis Pogson
Isis Pogson (born Elizabeth Isis Pogson; 28 September 1852 – 14 May 1945) was a British astronomer and meteorologist.
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Jacoba van den Brande
Jacoba van den Brande (4 July 1735 – 14 August 1794), Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland (Online Dictionary of the Netherlands),.
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Jacqueline Felice de Almania
Jacqueline Felice de Almania, (in Italian: Jacobina Félicie), was reportedly from Florence, Italy.
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Jane Addams
Jane Addams (September 8, 1860May 21, 1935), known as the "mother" of social work, was a pioneer American settlement activist/reformer, social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, public administrator, protestor, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace.
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Jane C. Loudon
Jane Wells Webb Loudon (19 August 1807 – 13 July 1858) was an English author and early pioneer of science fiction.
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Jane Colden
Jane Colden (March 27, 1724 – March 10, 1766) was an American botanist,Makers of American Botany, Harry Baker Humphrey, Ronald Press Company, Library of Congress Card Number 61-18435 described as the "first botanist of her sex in her country" by Asa Gray in 1843.
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Jane Marcet
Jane Marcet (née Haldimand) (1 January 1769 – 28 June 1858) was an innovative writer of popular introductory science books.
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Jane Sharp
Jane Sharp was a 17th-century English midwife.
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Jantina Tammes
Jantina "Tine" Tammes (23 June 1871 – 20 September 1947) was a Dutch botanist and geneticist and the first professor of genetics in the Netherlands.
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Jeanne Dumée
Jeanne Dumée (Paris 1660 - 1706) was a French astronomer and the author of an astronomical text, Entretiens sur l’opinion de Copernic touchant la mobilité de la terre (Conversations on Copernicus’ Opinion on the Movement of the Earth).
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Jeanne Villepreux-Power
Jeanne Villepreux-Power née Jeanne Villepreux (24 September 1794 – 25 January 1871) was a pioneering French marine biologist who in 1832 was the first person to create aquaria for experimenting with aquatic organisms.
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Johanna Hedén
Johanna Maria Hedén, née Bowall (July 21, 1837 – December 1912) was a Swedish midwife, Feldsher (or barber surgeon), apothecary and barber.
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Johanna Mestorf
Johanna Mestorf (17 April 1828, Bad Bramstedt, Duchy of Holstein – 20 July 1909, Kiel) was a German prehistoric archaeologist, the first female museum director in the Kingdom of Prussia and usually said to be the first female professor in Germany.
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Josephine Kablick
Josephine Ettel Kablick (March 9 1787 – July 21, 1863) was a pioneering Czech botanist and paleontologist.
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Josephine Silone Yates
Josephine Silone Yates (1852 or November 15, 1859 – September 3, 1912), trained in chemistry, was one of the first black teachers hired at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri, and, upon her promotion, the first black woman to head a college science department.
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Julia Lermontova
Julia Lermontova Юлия Всеволодовна Лермонтова (21 December 1846 – 16 December 1919 O.S. 2 January 1847), was a Russian chemist.
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Justine Siegemund
Justine Siegemund or Siegemundin (26 December 1636 – 10 November 1705) was a renowned Silesian midwife whose Court Midwife (1690) was the more read, but not the first, female-published German obstetrical manual.
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Karolina Widerström
Karolina Olivia Widerström, (10 December 1856 in Helsingborg – 4 March 1949), was a Swedish doctor and gynecologist.
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Katharine Murray Lyell
Katharine Murray Lyell (1817–1915) was a British botanist, author of an early book on the worldwide distribution of ferns, and editor of volumes of the correspondence of several of the era's notable scientists.
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Kisamor
Maria Jansson, known in history as Kisamor (English: The Mother of Kisa), (30 July 1788 – 27 February 1842), was a Swedish natural doctor, one of the most notable and well-known of 19th-century physicians in Sweden.
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Laïs (physician)
Laïs (fl. 1st/2nd century BCE) was an ancient Greek physician and midwife known for her disagreements with Elephantis, and for Pliny's skepticism about the efficacy of her medicine.
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Lady Anne Monson
Lady Anne Monson (née Vane; 1726–1776), also known as Lady Anne Hope-Vere, was an English botanist and collector of plants and insects.
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Lady Hester Stanhope
Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope (12 March 1776 – 23 June 1839) was a British socialite, adventurer and traveller.
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Lanying Lin
Lin Lanying (林兰英) (February 7, 1918 – March 4, 2003), was a Chinese scientist in the material engineering field.
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Lastheneia of Mantinea
Lastheneia (or Lasthenia) of Mantinea (Λασθένεια Μαντινική) was one of Plato's female students.
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Laura Alberta Linton
Laura Alberta Linton (8 April 1853 – 1 April 1915) was an American chemist and physician.
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Laura Bassi
Laura Maria Caterina Bassi (October 1711 – 20 February 1778) was an Italian physicist and academic.
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Leontion
Leontion (Leontium, Λεόντιον; fl. 300 BCE) was a Greek Epicurean philosopher.
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Leoparda
Leoparda (4th century, Byzantium) was a gynecologist who served in the Court of Gratian (359–383).
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Lilian Jane Gould
Lilian Jane Gould (1861–1936), also known as Lilian J. Veley, was a British biologist mainly known for her studies of microorganisms in liquor.
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Lilian Sheldon
Lilian Sheldon (May 1862 – 6 May 1942) was an English zoologist.
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Lise Meitner
Lise Meitner (7 November 1878 – 27 October 1968) was an Austrian-Swedish physicist who worked on radioactivity and nuclear physics.
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Loredana Marcello
Loredana Marcello (died 12 December 1572) was a Dogaressa of Venice by marriage to the Doge Alvise I Mocenigo (r. 1570-1577).
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Louise Bourgeois Boursier
Louise (Bourgeois) Boursier (1563–1636) was a French midwife called The Scholar.
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Louise du Pierry
Louise du Pierry or Dupiery, née Elisabeth Louise Felicité Pourra de la Madeleine (30 July 1746 – 27 February 1807), was a French astronomer and professor.
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Louise Hammarström
Louise (Lovisa) Katarina Hammarström (25 May 1849 – 5 November 1917), was a Swedish chemist.
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Lovisa Åhrberg
Maria Lovisa Åhrberg or Årberg (17 May 1801 in Uppsala, – 26 March 1881 in Stockholm), was a Swedish surgeon and doctor.
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Lucia Galeazzi Galvani
Lucia Galeazzi Galvani (3 June 1743, in Bologna – 1788) was an Italian scientist.
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Lucy Hobbs Taylor
Lucy Hobbs Taylor (March 14, 1833 – October 3, 1910) was a school teacher and a dentist, known for being the first American woman to graduate from dental school (Ohio College of Dental Surgery in 1866).
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Lydia Maria Adams DeWitt
Lydia Maria Adams DeWitt, born Lydia Maria Adams (February 1, 1859 – March 10, 1928) was an American pathologist and anatomist.
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Macrina the Younger
Saint Macrina the Younger (c. 330– 19 July 379) was a nun in the Early Christian Church and is a prominent saint in the Roman Catholic, Eastern Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox Church.
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Magistra Hersend
Magistra Hersend, also called Hersend or Magistra Hersend Physica (floruit 1249–1259, Paris) was a French female surgeon who accompanied King Louis IX of France on the Seventh Crusade in 1249.
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María Andrea Casamayor
María Andrea Casamayor y de la Coma (1700–1780) was a Spanish mathematician.
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Margaret Bryan (philosopher)
Margaret Bryan (fl. 1815) was a British natural philosopher and educator, and the author of standard scientific textbooks.
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Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Margaret Lucas Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623 – 15 December 1673) was an English aristocrat, philosopher, poet, scientist, fiction-writer, and playwright during the 17th century.
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Margaret Crosfield
Margaret Chorley Crosfield (7 September 1859 – 13 October 1952) was a British palaeontologist and geologist.
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Margaret Eliza Maltby
Margaret Eliza Maltby (10 December 1860 – 3 May 1944) was an American physicist notable for measurement of high electrolytic resistances and conductivity of very dilute solutions.
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Margaret Floy Washburn
Margaret Floy Washburn (July 25, 1871 – October 29, 1939), leading American psychologist in the early 20th century, was best known for her experimental work in animal behavior and motor theory development.
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Margaret Lindsay Huggins
Margaret Lindsay, Lady Huggins (14 August 1848 in Dublin – 24 March 1915 in London), born Margaret Lindsay Murray, was an Irish-English scientific investigator and astronomer.
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Margaret Murray
Margaret Alice Murray (13 July 1863 – 13 November 1963) was an Anglo-Indian Egyptologist, archaeologist, anthropologist, historian, and folklorist.
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Margaretha Kirch
Margaretha Kirch (b. ca. 1703, d. after 1744) was a German astronomer.
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Margaretta Morris
Margaretta Hare Morris (3 December 1797 – 29 May 1867) was an American entomologist.
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Margaretta Riley
Margaretta Riley, née Hopper (May 4, 1804 - July 16, 1899) was an English botanist.
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Marguerite de la Sablière
Marguerite de la Sablière (c. 1640 – 8 January 1693), was a French salonist and polymath, friend and patron of La Fontaine, was the wife of Antoine Rambouillet, sieur de la Sablière (1624–1679), a Protestant financier and poet entrusted with the administration of the royal estates, her maiden name being Marguerite Hessein.
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Maria Angela Ardinghelli
Maria Angela Ardinghelli (1730–1825) was an Italian translator, mathematician, physicist and noble, mostly known as the Italian translator of the works of Stephen Hales, a Newtonian physiologist.
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Maria Christina Bruhn
Maria Christina Bruhn (1732– 21 October 1808) was a Swedish chemist and inventor, likely to be the first patented female inventor of her country.
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Maria Clara Eimmart
Maria Clara Eimmart (27 May 1676 – 29 October 1707), was a German astronomer, engraver and designer.
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Maria Cunitz
Maria Cunitz or Maria Cunitia (other versions of surname include: Cunicia, Cunitzin, Kunic, Cunitiae, Kunicia, Kunicka) (Wołów, Silesia, 1610 – Byczyna, Silesia, August 22, 1664) was an accomplished Silesian astronomer, and one of the most notable female astronomers of the modern era.
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Maria Czaplicka
Maria Antonina Czaplicka (25 October 1884 – 27 May 1921), also referred to as Marya Antonina Czaplicka and Marie Antoinette Czaplicka, was a Polish cultural anthropologist who is best known for her ethnography of Siberian shamanism.
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Maria Dalle Donne
Maria Dalle Donne (12 July 1778 - 9 June 1842) was an Italian physician and a director at the University of Bologna.
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Maria Elizabeth Fernald
Maria Elizabeth Smith Fernald (May 24, 1839 – October 6, 1919) was an American entomologist who wrote a major reference book, A Catalogue of the Coccidae of the World.
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Maria Elizabetha Jacson
Maria Elizabetha Jacson (1755 – 10 October 1829) was an eighteenth-century English writer, as was her sister, Frances Jacson (1754–1842), known for her books on botany at a time when there were significant obstacles to women's authorship.
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Maria Gaetana Agnesi
Maria Gaetana Agnesi (16 May 1718 – 9 January 1799) was an Italian mathematician, philosopher, theologian, and humanitarian.
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Maria Gordon
Dame Maria Matilda Gordon (née Ogilvie; 30 April 1864 – 24 June 1939), known as May Ogilvie Gordon, was an eminent Scottish geologist, palaeontologist, and politician.
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Maria Gugelberg von Moos
Maria Gugelberg von Moos (1836–1918) was a renowned Swiss botanist and floral artist.
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Maria Margaretha Kirch
Maria Margaretha Kirch (née Winckelmann, in historic sources named Maria Margaretha Kirchin; 25 February 1670 – 29 December 1720) was a German astronomer, and one of the first famous astronomers of her period due to her writings on the conjunction of the sun with Saturn, Venus, and Jupiter in 1709 and 1712 respectively.
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Maria Medina Coeli
Maria Medina Coeli (1764 in Chiavenna – 1846 in Pianello Lario) was an Italian scientist.
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Maria Mitchell
Maria Mitchell (August 1, 1818 – June 28, 1889) was an American astronomer, who in 1847 by using a telescope, discovered a comet, which as a result became known as "Miss Mitchell's Comet." She won a gold medal prize for her discovery, which was presented to her by King Frederick VI of Denmark.
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Maria Petraccini
Maria Magdalena Petraccini, or Pettracini (Florence, Tuscany, 1759 - Bagnacavallo, Ravenna, 1791), Italian anatomist and physician, professor of anatomy.
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Maria Sibylla Merian
Maria Sibylla Merian (2 April 164713 January 1717) was a German-born naturalist and scientific illustrator, a descendant of the Frankfurt branch of the Swiss Merian family.
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Marian E. Hubbard
Marian Elizabeth Hubbard (August 31, 1868 – February 24, 1956) was an American zoologist.
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Marie Anne Victoire Pigeon
Marie Anne Victoire Pigeon d'Osangis (1724, Paris – 1767, Berlin) was a French mathematician and writer.
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Marie Boivin
Marie-Anne Victoire Gillain Boivin (9 April 1773 – 16 May 1841) was a French midwife, inventor, and obstetrics writer.
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Marie Crous
Marie Crous was a French mathematician.
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Marie Durocher
Marie Josefina Mathilde Durocher (6 January 1809 – 25 December 1893) was a Brazilian obstetrician, midwife and physician.
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Marie Fouquet
Marie François Fouquet (1590–1681), was a French medical writer and philanthropist.
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Marie Le Masson Le Golft
Marie Le Masson Le Golft (25 October 1750 – 3 January 1826) was a French naturalist.
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Marie Marguerite Bihéron
Marie Marguerite Bihéron (17 November 1719 – 1795) (also known as Marie Catherine Bihéron) was a French anatomist, known for her medical illustrations and wax figure models.
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Marie Meurdrac
Marie Meurdrac (1610 – 1680) was a French chemist and alchemist born in Mandres-les-Roses, today a suburb of Paris.
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Marie Pasteur
Marie Pasteur, née Laurent (15 January 1826 in Clermont-Ferrand, France – 28 September 1910 in Paris), was the scientific assistant and co-worker of her spouse, the famous French chemist and bacteriologist Louis Pasteur.
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Marie-Aimée Lullin
Marie-Aimée Lullin (5 April 1751 – 21 January 1822) was a Swiss entomologist: spouse and assistant to François Huber.
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Marie-Anne Libert
Marie-Anne Libert, (born 7 April 1782 in Malmedy, province of Liège, died 14 January 1865 in Malmedy) was a Belgian botanist and mycologist.
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Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier
Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze (20 January 1758 in Montbrison, Loire, France – 10 February 1836) was a French chemist and noble.
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Marie-Jeanne de Lalande
Marie-Jeanne-Amélie Le Francais de Lalande, born Harlay (1768–November 8, 1832), was a French astronomer and mathematician.
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Marie-Louise Lachapelle
Marie-Louise Lachapelle (1 January 1769 – 4 October 1821) was a French midwife, head of obstetrics at the Hôtel-Dieu, the oldest hospital in Paris.
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Martha Daniell Logan
Martha Daniell Logan (29 December 1704 - 28 June 1779) was an early American botanist who was instrumental in seed exchanges between Britain and the North American colonies.
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Martha Ripley
Martha George (Rogers) Ripley (1843–1912) of Lowell, Vermont was an American physician, suffragist, professor of medicine, and founder of the Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Martine Bertereau
Martine Bertereau also known as Baroness de Beausoleil (born c. 1600, France – died after 1642, Vincennes, France) was a pioneering French woman mining engineer and mineralogist who traveled extensively in Europe in search of mineral deposits.
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Mary Agnes Chase
Mary Agnes Meara Chase (April 29, 1869 – September 24, 1963) was an American botanist who worked at the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Smithsonian Institution.
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Mary Albertson
Mary A. Albertson (21 June 1838 – 19 August 1914), born Mary Ann Mitchell, was an American botanist and astronomer.
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Mary Anne Whitby
Mary Anne Theresa Whitby (1784–1850), née Symonds, was an English writer, landowner, and artist.
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Mary Anning
Mary Anning (21 May 1799 – 9 March 1847) was an English fossil collector, dealer, and paleontologist who became known around the world for important finds she made in Jurassic marine fossil beds in the cliffs along the English Channel at Lyme Regis in the county of Dorset in Southwest England.
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Mary Brush
Mary Brush (fl. 1815) of Davenport, Iowa, was an American inventor and one of the first American women to be granted a patent by the U.S. patent office.
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Mary Buckland
Mary Morland Buckland (20 November 1797 – 30 November 1857) was an English palaeontologist, marine biologist and scientific illustrator.
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Mary Cynthia Dickerson
Mary Cynthia Dickerson (March 7, 1866 – April 23, 1923) was an American herpetologist and the first curator of herpetology at the American Museum of Natural History, as well as the first curator in the now defunct department of Woods and Forestry.
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Mary Dixon Kies
Mary Dixon Kies (March 21, 1752 – 1837) was an American inventor.
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Mary Edwards Walker
Mary Edwards Walker (November 26, 1832 – February 21, 1919), commonly referred to as Dr.
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Mary Emilie Holmes
Mary Emilie Holmes (April 10, 1850 – February 13, 1906) was a 19th-century American geologist and educator who became the first woman to be elected a fellow of the Geological Society of America.
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Mary Engle Pennington
Mary Engle Pennington (October 8, 1872 – December 27, 1952) was an American bacteriological chemist and refrigeration engineer.
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Mary J. Rathbun
Mary Jane Rathbun (June 11, 1860 – April 4, 1943) was an American zoologist who specialized in crustaceans.
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Mary Murtfeldt
Mary Esther Murtfeldt (1848, New York City – 1913) was an American entomologist.
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Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort (1630–1715)
Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort (baptised 16 December 1630 – 7 January 1715) also known by her other married name of Mary Seymour, Lady Beauchamp and her maiden name Mary Capell, was an English noblewoman, gardener and botanist.
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Mary Somerville
Mary Somerville (née Fairfax, formerly Greig; 26 December 1780 – 29 November 1872), was a Scottish science writer and polymath.
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Mary the Jewess
Mary or Maria the Jewess (Maria Prophetissima), also known as Mary the Prophetess, is an early alchemist who is known from the works of the Gnostic Christian writer Zosimos of Panopolis.
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Mary Treat
Mary Lua Adelia Davis Treat (7 September 1830 in Trumansburg, New York – 11 April 1923 in Pembroke, New York) was a naturalist and correspondent with Charles Darwin.
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Mary Watson Whitney
Mary Watson Whitney (September 11, 1847 – January 20, 1921) was an American astronomer and for 22 years the head of the Vassar Observatory where 102 scientific papers were published under her guidance.
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Mary Whiton Calkins
Mary Whiton Calkins (30 March 1863 – 26 February 1930) was an American philosopher and psychologist.
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Maurice Quentin de La Tour
Maurice Quentin de La Tour (5 September 1704 – 17 February 1788) was a French Rococo portraitist who worked primarily with pastels.
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Melissa (philosopher)
Melissa (3rd century BC) was a Pythagorean philosopher.
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Mercuriade
Mercuriade (14th-century) was an Italian physician, surgeon and medical author.
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Merit-Ptah
Merit-Ptah ("Beloved of the god Ptah"; c. 2700 BCE) the chief physician of the pharaoh's court during the Second Dynasty of ancient Egypt.
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Metrodora
Metrodora (c. 200-400 CE) was a Greek physician and author of the oldest medical text known to have been written by a woman, On the Diseases and Cures of Women (Περὶ τῶν Γυναικείων παθῶν τῆς μἠτρας).
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Mileva Marić
Mileva Marić (Serbian Cyrillic: Милева Марић; December 19, 1875 – August 4, 1948), sometimes called Mileva Marić-Einstein or Mileva Marić-Ajnštajn, was a Serbian mathematician.
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Mineralogy
Mineralogy is a subject of geology specializing in the scientific study of chemistry, crystal structure, and physical (including optical) properties of minerals and mineralized artifacts.
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Muriel Wheldale Onslow
Muriel Wheldale Onslow (31 March 1880 – 19 May 1932) was a British biochemist, born in Birmingham, England.
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Myia
Myia (Μυῖα, literally "Fly"; fl. c. 500 BC) was a Pythagorean philosopher and, according to later tradition, one of the daughters of Theano and Pythagoras.
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Nadezhda Ziber-Shumova
Nadezhda Olimpievna Ziber-Shumova (d. 1914), was a Russian chemist.
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Natural History (Pliny)
The Natural History (Naturalis Historia) is a book about the whole of the natural world in Latin by Pliny the Elder, a Roman author and naval commander who died in 79 AD.
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Nettie Stevens
Nettie Maria Stevens (July 7, 1861 – May 4, 1912) was an early American geneticist.
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Nicarete
Saint Nicarete (? 5th century), was a woman of Nicomedia who became a saint as a disciple of St. John Chrysostom.
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Nicole-Reine Lepaute
Nicole-Reine Lepaute (née Étable de la Briere; also known as Hartense Lepaute or Hortense Lepaute), (5 January 1723 – 6 December 1788) was a French astronomer and mathematician.
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Obstetrics
Obstetrics is the field of study concentrated on pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period.
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Olga Fedchenko
Olga Aleksandrovna Fedchenko or Olga Fedtschenko (née Armfeld; 30 October 1845 – 24 April 1921) was a Russian botanist.
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Olympias
Olympias (Ὀλυμπιάς,, c. 375–316 BC) was a daughter of king Neoptolemus I of Epirus, sister to Alexander I of Epirus, fourth wife of Philip II, the king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia, and mother of Alexander the Great.
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Oxford
Oxford is a city in the South East region of England and the county town of Oxfordshire.
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Paphnutia the Virgin
Paphnutia the Virgin (fl.300 C.E.) was an Egyptian alchemist living around the time of 300 C.E. who was referred to in the letters between the alchemist Zosimos of Panopolis and his sister Theosebeia (also assumed to be an alchemist).
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Perictione
Perictione (Περικτιόνη, Periktione; fl. 5th century BC) was the mother of the Greek philosopher Plato.
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Peseshet
Peseshet, who lived under the Fourth Dynasty (albeit a date to the Fifth Dynasty is also possible), is often credited with being the earliest known female physician in ancient Egypt, though another, Merit-Ptah lived earlier.
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Petronella Johanna de Timmerman
Petronella Johanna de Timmerman (31 January 1723, Middelburg – 2 May 1786, Utrecht) was a Dutch poet and scientist.
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Phoebe Lankester
Phoebe Lankester (also Phebe Lankester, 10 April 1825 – 9 April 1900) was a British botanist known for her popular science writing, particularly on wildflowers, parasitic plants, and ferns.
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Pliny the Elder
Pliny the Elder (born Gaius Plinius Secundus, AD 23–79) was a Roman author, naturalist and natural philosopher, a naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and friend of emperor Vespasian.
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Praskovya Uvarova
Praskovya Sergeevna Uvarova (Russian: Прасковья Сергеевна Уварова), née Scherbatova (Щербатова), (9 April 1840, Bobriki, Kharkov Governorate – 30 June 1924, Dobrna), was an amateur Russian archaeologist.
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Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen
Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen (Marie Charlotte Amalie Ernestine Wilhelmine Philippine, Prinzessin von Sachsen-Meiningen) (11 September 1751, Frankfurt am Main, Free Imperial City of Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire – 25 April 1827, Genoa, Kingdom of Sardinia) was a member of the House of Saxe-Meiningen and a Princess of Saxe-Meiningen by birth and a member of the House of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg and Duchess consort of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg through her marriage to Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg.
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Priscilla Susan Bury
Priscilla Susan Bury, born Falkner (12 January 1799 Liverpool – 8 March 1872 Croydon), was an English botanist and illustrator.
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Pulcheria
Saint Aelia Pulcheria (Πουλχερία; 19 January 398 or 399 – July 453) was Regent of the Byzantine Empire during the minority of her brother Theodosius II, and empress by marriage to Marcian.
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Pythias
Pythias (translit), also known as Pythias the Elder, was a Greek biologist and embryologist.
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Rachel Alcock
Rachel Alcock (1862 – 2 February 1939) was an English physiologist and academic.
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Rachel Lloyd (chemist)
Rachel Lloyd (January 26, 1839 – March 7, 1900) was an American chemist best known for her work on the chemistry and agriculture of sugar beets (Beta vulgaris).
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Rebecca Cole
Rebecca J. Cole (March 16, 1846August 14, 1922) was an American physician, organization founder and social reformer.
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Rebecca Guarna
Rebecca Guarna (fl. 1200), was an Italian physician and surgeon and author.
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Rebecca Lee Crumpler
Rebecca Lee Crumpler, Davis, (February 8, 1831March 9, 1895) was an African American physician and author.
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Regina von Siebold
Regina Josepha von Siebold, née Henning (14 December 1771 – 28 February 1849), was a German physician and obstetrician.
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Rosa Smith Eigenmann
Rosa Smith Eigenmann (October 7, 1858 – January 12, 1947) was an American ichthyologist, focusing on the branch of zoology devoted to the study of fish.
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Rosalie de Constant
Rosalie de Constant, (31 July 1758 Saint-Jean - 27 November 1834 Geneva) was a Swiss illustrator and naturalist.
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Rosalie Fougelberg
Rosalie Ingeborg Karolina Fougelberg (29 December 1841 – 8 May 1911) is known as Sweden's first female dentist after the profession was opened to both genders.
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Royal Society
The President, Council and Fellows of the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, commonly known as the Royal Society, is a learned society.
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Rufaida Al-Aslamia
Rufaida Al-Aslamia (also transliterated Rufaida Al-Aslamiya or Rufaydah bint Sa`ad)(رفيدة الأسلمية) (approx. 620 AD) was an Islamic medical and social worker recognized as the first female Muslim nurse and the first female surgeon in Islam.
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Saint Fabiola
Saint Fabiola was a nurse (physician) and Roman matron of rank of the company of noble Roman women who, under the influence of the Church father St. Jerome gave up all earthly pleasures and devoted themselves to the practice of Christian asceticism and charitable work.
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Saint Marcella
Marcella (325–410) is a saint in the Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Church.
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Salomée Halpir
Regina Salomée Halpir (1718 – after 1763) was an 18th-century oculist.
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Salpe
Salpe was an ancient Greek midwife cited by Pliny the Elder, and a writer of a work called the Paignia mentioned in Athenaeus' Deipnosophistae.
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Sara de Sancto Aegidio
Sara de Sancto Aegidio (St. Gilles) (also known as Sara of St. Gilles, or Sara de Saint Gilles; died after 1326) was a French physician.
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Sara Josephine Baker
Sara Josephine Baker (November 15, 1873 – February 22, 1945) was an American physician notable for making contributions to public health, especially in the immigrant communities of New York City.
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Sarah Frances Whiting
Sarah Frances Whiting (August 23, 1847 – September 12, 1927), American physicist and astronomer, was the instructor to several astronomers, including Annie Jump Cannon.
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Sarah Sophia Banks
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Sofia Kovalevskaya
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Sophia Brahe
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Sophia Jex-Blake
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Sophie Germain
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Stele
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Susan Hallowell
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Susanna Phelps Gage
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Sybilla Righton Masters
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Tan Yunxian
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Tapputi
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Tarquinia Molza
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Themista of Lampsacus
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Theosebia
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Titia Brongersma
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Trota of Salerno
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Varvara Rudneva
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Vatican Museums
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Vera Yevstafievna Popova
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Wang Zhenyi (astronomer)
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Williamina Fleming
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Zsófia Torma
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Zulema L'Astròloga
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_female_scientists_before_the_20th_century
