Презентация - Women in science

women in science

Women have made contributions to science from the earliest times. The involvement of women in the field of medicine has been recorded in several early civilizations

In ancient history Several women are recorded in alchemy in Alexandria around the 1st or 2nd centuries AD

Medieval Europe
In the 11th century the first universities emerged . Women were, for the most part, excluded from university education

However, there were some exceptions
Hildegard of Bingen

Scientific Revolution (16th, 17th centuries)
Women who wanted to work in science lived mostly in Germany Between 1650 and 1710, women made up 14% of all German astronomers.

18th century
The 18th century was characterized by the rise of salon culture in Europe where men and women met to discuss contemporary political, social, and scientific topics. A founder of modern botany and zoology, Maria Sibylla Merian (1624–1674), spent her life investigating nature

Among the best known of these scientific wives was Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze, who married at 13 and became her husband’s assistant. In his home laboratory he discovered oxygen.

Laura Maria Caterina Bassi
a member of the Italian Academy of the Institute of Sciences and the Institute of Experimental Physics became the world’s first female professor.

19th century
Scottish scientist Mary Fairfax Somerville carried out experiments in magnetism

Augusta Ada King
English mathematician corresponded with Charles Babbage about applications for his analytical engine.

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
She became the first British woman to gain a medical qualification in 1865

Beatrix Potter
was an English author, illustrator, natural scientist and best known for her imaginative children’s books about animals, the British landscape and country life.

Sofia Kovalevskaya
the first major Russian female mathematician After moving to Sweden, she called herself Sonya.

20th century
Marie Skłodowska-Curie was a Polish physicist and chemist, working mainly in France. She was a pioneer in the research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize

Irène Joliot-Curie
the daughter of Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie and the wife of Frédéric Joliot-Curie. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1935 for their discovery of artificial radioactivity