Many people can name but a handful of great engineers and scientists. Even fewer can name great engineers and scientists who were women. Today, I present for your consideration – in no particular order – those women I consider to be the greatest engineers and scientists of all time. Some have already been profiled on CR4. Others will be featured in the weeks and months to come. So, please, let us know what you think! Which women deserve our consideration? Based on your feedback, we'll schedule blog entries accordingly.
Marie Curie - Chemist and physicist
Grace Murray Hopper - Computer scientist and admiral
Rosalind Elsie Franklin - Scientist
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin - Chemist and X-ray crystallographer
Lady Augusta Ada Brown, Countess of Lovelace - Computer programmer
Florence Nightingale - Nurse
Beatrix Potter - Mycologist, writer
Ellen Swallow Richards – Chemist and educator, home economics
Emily Roebling - Engineer
Dian Fossey - Primatologist
Sophie Germain - Mathematician
Jane Goodall - Ethologist
Wangari Maathai - Conservationist and Nobel Peace Prize winner
Margaret Mead - Anthropologist
Sally Ride - Astrophysicist and astronaut
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