List of female scientists before the 20th century

This is a historical list, intended to deal with the time period where it is believed that women working in science were rare. For this reason, this list ends with the 20th century.

Antiquity

Marble herm in the Vatican Museums inscribed with Aspasia's name at the base. Discovered in 1777, this marble herm is a Roman copy of a 5th-century BC original and may represent Aspasia's funerary stele.
Hypatia by Julia Cameron
  • Gargi Vachaknavi (7th century BCE), Indian philosopher
  • Abrotelia (5th BCE), philosopher in Ancient Greece
  • Aemilia (c. 300 CE–363 CE), Gallo-Roman physician
  • Aesara of Lucania (4th or 3rd BCE), philosopher in Ancient Greece
  • Agamede (12th century BCE), physician in Ancient Greece (possibly mythical)
  • Aglaonike (2nd century BCE), first woman astronomer in Ancient Greece
  • Agnodike (4th century BCE), first woman physician to practice legally in Athens[1]:2
  • Andromache (mid-6th century), Egyptian physician[2]:39
  • Amyte (300 BCE), Greek physician and poet[2]:40
  • Arete of Cyrene (5th–4th centuries BCE), Greek natural and moral philosopher,
  • Artemisia of Caria (c. 300 BCE), botanist
  • Asclepigenia (4th AD), Greek Neoplatonist[2]:55
  • Aspasia (4th century BCE), philosopher and scientist
  • Aspasia the Physician (fl. 1st century CE), Greek physician
  • Axiothea of Phlius (fl. c. 350 BCE), Greek philosopher[2]:62
  • Aurelia Alexandria Zosime, Ancient Roman physician [3]
  • Beronice (1st AD), Roman philosopher[2]:118
  • Caerellia (c. 45 BCE), Roman academician[2]:219
  • Chun Yuyan (1st-century BC), Chinese obstetrician and gynecologist
  • Clea (1st–2nd century AD), philosopher[2]:267
  • Cleachma (5th century BCE), Greek philosopher[2]:267–68
  • Cleopatra the Alchemist – wrote the alchemical book, Chrysopoeia, or "gold-making"[4]:99[5]
  • Damo (6th century BCE), Greek natural philosopher
  • Diotima of Mantinea (4th century BCE), philosopher and scientist, ancient Greece
  • Eccello of Lucania (5th or 4th century BCE), Greek/Italian mathematician and natural philosopher[2]:396
  • Echecratia the Philiasian (5th century BCE), Greek/Italian mathematician and natural philosopher[2]:397
  • Elephantis (1st century BCE), Greek physician
  • Enheduanna (c. 2285–2250 BCE), Sumerian/Akkadian astronomer and poet
  • Fabiola (died 399 CE), Roman physician
  • Fang (first century B.C.), Chinese chemist
  • Favilla (2nd century), Roman physician[2]:436
  • Gu Bao (4th-century), was a Chinese physician
  • Hypatia (370–415 CE), mathematician and astronomer, Egypt[1]:137
  • Laïs, midwife[2]:735[6]
  • Lais of Corinth, Ancient Greek physician [7]
  • Lastheneia of Mantinea (5th century BCE), student of Plato
  • Leontium (3rd BCE), Greek philosopher
  • Leoparda (4th century AD), gynecologist
  • Macrina (4th century AD), Greek physician and nun[2]:828
  • Marcella (4th century AD), Roman healer[2]:841
  • Mary the Jewess (1st or 2nd century CE), alchemist[4]:128
  • Melissa (3rd century BCE), Greek philosopher
  • Merit Ptah (c. 2700 BCE), Egyptian physician
  • Metrodora (c. 200–400 AD), Greek physician and author
  • Minucia Asste, Ancient Roman physician [8]
  • Myia (5th century BCE), Greek philosopher
  • Nicerata (c. 5th century), physician and healer
  • Occello of Lucania (4th or 5th century BCE), Greek natural philosopher and mathematician[2]:957
  • Olympias of Thebes (1st century BCE), Greek midwife[2]:962
  • Origenia (2nd century AD), Greek healer[2]:965
  • Pao Ku Ko (3rd-century A.D.), Chinese chemist
  • Paphnutia the Virgin (c. 300), Egyptian alchemist[2]:978
  • Paula (347–404 CE), Roman healer[2]:990
  • Perictione (5th century BCE), Greek philosopher, mother of Plato
  • Panthea, Ancient Greek physician, wife and colleague of Glycon. [9]
  • Philinna of Thessaly, Ancient Greek physician [10]
  • Peseshet Egyptian physician (Fourth Dynasty)
  • Pulcheria (5th century AD), healer[2]:1059
  • Pythias of Assos (4th century BCE), marine zoologist
  • Restituta (1st-century), Ancient Roman physician [11]
  • Salpe of Lesbos, Ancient Greek physician [12]
  • Salpe (1st century BCE), Greek midwife
  • Sotira (1st century BCE), Greek physician[2]:1217–18
  • Tapputi-Belatekallim (First mentioned in a clay tablet dating to 2000 BCE), Babylonian perfumer, the first person in history recorded as using a chemical process[13]
  • Terentia Prima, Ancient Roman physician [14]
  • Theano (6th century BCE), philosopher, mathematician and physician
  • Thelka, Iranian[2]:1278
  • Theosebeia (4th century AD), healer[2]:1278
  • Yi Jia (2nd-century BC), was a Chinese physician

Middle Ages

Herrad of Landsbert

16th century

Sophie Brahe portrait

17th century

Margaret Cavendish

18th century

19th century

Anthropology

Archeology

Astronomy

Annie Jump Cannon, 1922 Portrait

Biology or natural history

Mary Anning

Chemistry

Ida Freund


Engineers

Geology

Inventors


Mathematics

Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (Ada Lovelace)

Microbiology

Medicine

Kadambini Ganguly


Nuclear physics

  • Lise Meitner (1878–1968), Austrian, Swedish, nuclear physicist

Physics

Psychology

Science education

Sociology

See also

Notes

  1. Yount 2007
  2. Ogilvie, Marilyn; Harvey, Joy (2003-12-16). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives From Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century. Routledge. ISBN 9781135963439.
  3. Nathan J. Barnes: Reading 1 Corinthians with Philosophically Educated Women
  4. Ogilvie 1986
  5. Brown, James Campbell (1920). A History of Chemistry from the Earliest Times. P. Blakiston's Son & Company. pp. 19–24.
  6. Pliny the Elder, Natural History 28.81–84. Irby-Massie, 'Women in Ancient Science', in Woman's power, man's game: essays on classical antiquity in honor of Joy K. King, Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 1993. p.366
  7. Nathan J. Barnes: Reading 1 Corinthians with Philosophically Educated Women
  8. Nathan J. Barnes: Reading 1 Corinthians with Philosophically Educated Women
  9. Nathan J. Barnes: Reading 1 Corinthians with Philosophically Educated Women
  10. Nathan J. Barnes: Reading 1 Corinthians with Philosophically Educated Women
  11. Nathan J. Barnes: Reading 1 Corinthians with Philosophically Educated Women
  12. Nathan J. Barnes: Reading 1 Corinthians with Philosophically Educated Women
  13. Gabriele Kass-Simon; Patricia Farnes; Deborah Nash, eds. (1999). Women of science : righting the record (First Midland Book ed.). Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana Univ. Press. p. 301. ISBN 9780253208132.
  14. Nathan J. Barnes: Reading 1 Corinthians with Philosophically Educated Women
  15. L. Whaley: Women and the Practice of Medical Care in Early Modern Europe, 1400–1800
  16. Howard 2006
  17. Zahm, J.A. (1913). Woman in Science.
  18. Ogilvie, Marilyn; Harvey, Joy (2000). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science. New York: Routledge. p. 346. ISBN 0415920388.
  19. Walsh 1911
  20. «Diccionari Biogràfic de Dones: Francesca, muller de Berenguer Satorra»
  21. Zahm, J.A. (1913). Woman in Science.
  22. Zahm, J.A. (1913). Woman in Science.
  23. Howard, Sethanne (2007). "SCIENCE HAS NO GENDER: The History of Women in Science". Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences. 93 (1): 1–15. ISSN 0043-0439.
  24. Zahm, J.A. (1913). Woman in Science.
  25. Picard, Liza. Elizabeth's London (2003), Weidenfeld & Nicolson
  26. Hoe, Susanna (2016). "Valletta". Malta: Women, History, Books and Places (PDF). Oxford: Women's History Press (a division of Holo Books). pp. 368–369. ISBN 9780957215351. OCLC 931704918. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 October 2016.
  27. "Sarah Whiting". CWP.
  28. Rayner-Canham & Rayner-Canham 2001
  29. Rayner-Canham, Marelene; Rayner-Canham, Geoff (23 Feb 2009). "Fight for Rights" (PDF). Chemistry World. 6 (3): 56–59.

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