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Marie Meurdrac
Marie Meurdrac was a 17th-century French alchemist and chemist known for her work La chymie charitable & facile, en faveur des dames, published in 1666. This work is one of the first written on the topics of chemistry and pharmaceuticals by a woman and for women. -
Margaret Cavendish
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, was an English aristocrat, philosopher, poet, scientist, fiction writer and playwright. She wrote a large number of works, in which she records her liberal thinking and fight for the recognition of women. -
Maria merian
Maria Sibylla Merian was a German scientist, pioneer of entomology, naturalist, explorer, scientific illustrator and painter, of Swiss parents.
Although ignored for a long time, she is currently considered one of the most important initiators of modern entomology, thanks to her detailed observations and descriptions, with her own illustrations, of the metamorphosis of butterflies. -
Maria winkelman
Maria Margarethe Winckelmann-Kirch was an Austrian astronomer, who as assistant to her husband and later her son, contributed to the establishment of the Berlin Academy of Sciences as the major center of astronomy. -
Emilie du chatelet
Emilie du chatelet was a marchioness of Châtelet, was a French mathematician, physicist and philosopher, translator of Newton into French and disseminator of his theories. -
Dorothea Schlözer
Dorothea Schlözer was a German scholar and the first woman to receive the degree of doctor of philosophy in Germany.