Early Female Astronomers, Physicists, and Mathematicians

Only a few of the are honored by a postage stamp

Empfehlenswerte Lektüre:
 
Londa Schiebinger: Schöne Geister, Frauen in den Anfängen der Moderen Wissenschaft
Klett-Kotta, Stuttgart 1993
 
Londa Schiebinger: The Mind Has No Sex? Women in the Origins of Modern Science
Harvard University Press, Cambridge 1989


Sophie Brahe

Maria Cunitz

Elisabeth Hevelius

Maria Margaretha Kirch

Maria Eimmart

Christine Kirch

Émilie du Châtelet

Laura Bassi

Maria Gaetana Agnesi

Nicole-Reine Lepaute

Caroline Herschel

Sophie Germain

Mary Somerville

Ada Lovelace

Maria Mitchell

 Sofya Kovalevskaya

Williamina Fleming

Annie Jump Cannon

Antonia Maury

Henrietta Swan Leavitt

Annie Maunder-Russel

Emmy Noether

Hertha Sponer

Margaret Burbidge

Vera Rubin

Jocelyn Bell Burnell
 1559-1643

1610-1664

1647-1693

1670-1720

1676-1707

1697-1782

1706-1749

1711-1778

1718-1799

1723-1788

1750-1848

1776-1831

1780–1872

1815-1852

1818–1889

1850 -1891

1857–1911

1863-1941

1866–1952

1868–1921

1868–1947

1892-1935

1895-1968

1919-2020

1928-2016

1943
Stamps in
my collection
of 600



Emilie du Chatelet
 
Maria Gaetana Agnesi
 
Sophie Germain

  Adda Lovelace

Sofya Kovalevskaya



Female Nobel Laureates

Marie Curie
1867 - 1934
 Marie Curie Sklodowska

Irene Joliot-Curie
1897 - 1956
 Irène Joliot-Curie

Gerty Cori
1896 - 1957
 Gerty Cori

Maria Goeppert-Mayer
1906 - 1972
 Maria Goeppert-Mayer

Dorothy Hodgkin
1910 - 1994
 Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

Barbara McClintock
1902 - 1992
 Barbara McClintock

Elisabeth Blackburn
1948
 Elizabeth Blackburn


J. Giesen, 2024