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Margaret Cavendish
His natural philosopher who helped to make some of the major ideas of the Scientific Revolution popular.
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Gabrielle Emilie Du Chatelet
Her french Mathematician and Physicist.
Her 1740 writing known as the "Foundations of Physics" gained her significant notoriety and she became an accepted member of the "Republic of Letters". -
Laura Bassi
Was an Italian physicist who became the first female professor at a European university in history. Bassi is also known for her contributions to Newtonian physics, and the expansion of that field of research. -
Chien-Shiung Wu
was a Chinese-American physicist, who is most known for her work in nuclear physics. Wu was one of the scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project to develop nuclear weapons during WWII.