Biographies of Notable Women: Science, Medicine and Mathematics

An ever-expanding list of biographies of notable women, both those who are well-known and those who should be better-known:

• Maria Agnesi
• Virginia Apgar
• Elizabeth Arden
• Elizabeth Blackwell
• Elizabeth Britton
• Rachel Carson
• Anna Comnena
  
• Marie Curie
• Dian Fossey
• Rosalind Franklin
• Sophie Germain
• Alessandra Giliani
• Winifred Goldring
• Jane Goodall
• Caroline Herschel
• Hypatia of Alexandria
• Sofia Kovalevskaya
• Ada Lovelace (Augusta Byron, Countess of Lovelace)
• Maria Mitchell
• Florence Nightingale
• Amalie Emmy Noether
• Elena Cornaro Piscopia
• Harriet Quimby
• Charlotte Angas Scott
• Alicia Stott
• Mary Fairfax Somerville
• Sarah Hackett Stevenson
• Trota or Trotula
• Fanny Bullock Workman
  
  
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