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*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Susan Finnegan]]''' was the first female head of the arachnids section at the Natural History Museum, London, but had to resign her job to marry?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Mary Robertson]]''' was the first woman to receive a Doctor of Science degree in medicine from the [[University of Cape Town]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that in 1884 '''[[Motibai Kapadia]]'''{{`s}} father allowed her to study alongside men in India?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that Panamanian earth scientist '''[[Erika Podest]]''' uses [[remote sensing]] to see how climate change has affected global soil moisture?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Lisa M. Corrigan]]''' used the prison memoirs of black activists to show how incarceration impacted the [[black power movement]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Laura Veale]]''' was the first woman to practise as a doctor in the town of [[Harrogate]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Josephine Kenyon]]''' moved from recommendations of rigid scheduling to "on-demand" scheduling in editions of her book ''[[Healthy Babies Are Happy Babies]]''{{-?}}
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that British physician '''[[Georgiana Bonser]]''' ''(pictured)'' investigated whether chemicals used in the dyeing industry caused [[bladder cancer]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Alison Frantz]]'''{{`s}} photographs played a crucial role in the [[Linear B#Discovery and decipherment|decipherment of Linear&nbsp;B]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that gynecologist '''[[Linda Giudice]]''' found that [[bisphenol&nbsp;A]] contamination in water systems correlates with higher [[miscarriage]] rates?
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*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Kate Gleason]]''' would wear her most feminine attire available as a strategy to sell [[bevel gear]]s?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[Gynaecology|gynecologist]] '''[[Mary Lake Polan]]''' wrote a medical mystery novel to "demystify" the procedures behind [[in vitro fertilisation]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Mary Clutter]]''' used her directorial position at the [[National Science Foundation]] to require scientific conferences to include women speakers when presenting research done by them?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that chemist '''[[Betty Lou Raskin]]''' said in 1958 that society was wasting the "brainpower" of women, and blamed the media for making the [[Fur clothing|mink coat]] the "symbol of female success" and not the [[White coat|lab coat]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Carmen Scheibenbogen]]''' was awarded the [[Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany#Classes|German Cross of Merit]] for her work on [[myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome|ME/CFS]] at the suggestion of patients and relatives?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Dora Goldstein]]''' exposed mice to alcoholic vapor to investigate the biochemistry of [[Alcoholism|alcohol addiction]] and [[alcohol withdrawal syndrome]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that scientist '''[[Adelaida K. Semesi]]''' was known as "mama mangroves" due to her specialist knowledge of their ecology?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that biochemist '''[[Susan Berget]]''' was heavily involved in the discovery of [[Intron|split genes]], but was excluded from credit and [[Nobel_Prize_controversies#1993|later the Nobel Prize for the research]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that although '''[[Olga Hartman]]''' believed that her [[basic research]] on marine worms had no practical value, it was applied to experimental studies of oysters?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Hannah E. Davis|Hannah Davis]]''' authored highly cited articles on [[long COVID]] while battling the disease herself?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Julie Cliff]]''' revealed that an outbreak of [[konzo]] in Mozambique was caused by cyanide in insufficiently processed [[cassava]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Susan Murabana]]''' created Africa's first permanent planetarium?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that professor '''[[Ruth Ann Davis]]''' made the largest ever single contribution to [[Potomac State College of West Virginia University]] to support nursing scholarships in memory of her mother?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Lillian V. Holdeman Moore]]''' identified a spike in hydrogen-gas-producing bacteria in [[Skylab]] astronauts?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Premana Premadi]]''' is the first Indonesian female astronomer to have an [[asteroid]] named in her honor?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that when '''[[Valerie Cowie]]''' was appointed a [[senior lecturer]], one of her referees wrote that his "only reservation is that the post&nbsp;... does not adequately do justice to her high academic status"?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Helene Ollendorff Curth]]''' was first to introduce a set of criteria for associating some rashes as possible [[Paraneoplastic syndrome|indicators for internal cancers]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Thelma Bates (physician)|Thelma Bates]]'''{{`s}} colleagues tried to discourage her from establishing the first [[palliative care]] team at a British hospital, saying it would ruin her career?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the [[Blackburnian warbler]] ''(example pictured)'' is named after '''[[Anna Blackburne]]''', who provided specimens to [[Thomas Pennant]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that former German chancellor '''[[Angela Merkel]]'''{{`s}} grandfather likely fought against Germany in World War&nbsp;I?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that as an undergraduate, battery engineer '''[[Celina Mikolajczak]]''' discovered a [[supernova]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that before becoming the first woman president of the [[American College of Sports Medicine]], '''[[Barbara L. Drinkwater]]''' had an undefeated season as a women's college basketball coach?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that during World War II, pilot '''[[Betty Clements|G. E. Clements]]''' ''(pictured)'' was removed from training for secret missions associated with the [[Manhattan Project]] when senior officers realized she was a woman?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Catherine de Parthenay]]''' ''(pictured)'', a 16th-century Huguenot leader, was a member of "a highly successful network of information" during the [[French Wars of Religion]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Evelyn Pruitt]]''' was the highest-ranking woman scientist in the [[United States Navy]] when she retired in 1973?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that a report led by academic '''[[Cathy Nutbrown]]''' concluded that qualifications for [[Vocational education|vocational courses]] in childcare and early education were laxer than in animal welfare?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Karen Hanghøj]]''', the 2023 winner of the [[William Smith Medal]] for applied geology, became the first female [[List of directors of the British Geological Survey|director of the British Geological Survey]] 183 years after it was founded?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Caroline Breese Hall]]''' and her father, who were both [[Pediatrics|pediatricians]], once wrote the same book?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Louise Willingale]]''' is developing ZEUS, which is projected to be the most powerful laser in the United States?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Lamia Al-Gailani Werr]]''' helped rebuild the [[Iraq Museum]] after it was looted in the 2003 American-led invasion of Iraq?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Ruth Northway]]''' is the United Kingdom's first professor of learning disability nursing?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Celine-Marie Pascale]]'''{{`s}} work focuses on how [[Race (human categorization)|race]] and [[Social class|class]] impact the way "business practices and government policies create, normalize and entrench economic struggles" to benefit the wealthy?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Wanda Wesołowska]]''' has named 40 genera and 572 species of animals?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[quantum materials]] researcher '''[[Tina Brower-Thomas]]'''{{`s}} attempts at chemistry as a youth led to her concoctions eating holes into her coat?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[NASA Astronaut Corps|NASA astronaut]] '''[[Bonnie J. Dunbar]]''' ''(pictured)'' flew on five space missions and has spent more than 50 days in space?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that excavations led by archaeologist '''[[Judith Marquet-Krause]]''' disproved that the [[Book of Joshua]] was a factual account of the city of [[Ai (Canaan)|Ai]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that French astrochemist '''[[Christine Joblin]]''' co-created a webcomic to popularize her research on the origins of [[cosmic dust]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that  '''[[Fionula Brennan]]'''{{`s}} experiments with [[cytokine]]s led to new therapies to treat [[rheumatoid arthritis]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Kurnianingrat]]''' helped historian [[George McTurnan Kahin]] smuggle speeches by leaders of the [[Indonesian National Revolution|Indonesian revolution]] from the Dutch?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Enriqueta Medellín]]''', a Mexican surgeon, has an ecological center and environmental prize named after her in the state of [[Aguascalientes]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Wilhelmine Key]]''' ''(pictured)'' studied wasps as a child, and as an adult she kept them as pets?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that aerospace engineer '''[[Sabrina Thompson]]''' ''(pictured)'' founded a [[streetwear]] brand after she felt the "artist inside of me was internally starving", despite being satisfied with her career?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that in 1908, American [[Otorhinolaryngology|otorhinolaryngologist]] '''[[Margaret F. Butler]]''' became the first woman to preside over an international congress of physicians?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the uncommon Florida lichen species '''''[[Gyalectidium yahriae]]''''' was named after '''[[Rebecca Yahr]]''' of the [[Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh]] in Scotland?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Eleanor Hadley]]''', a 29-year-old [[All but dissertation|doctoral candidate]] in economics, was recruited by the [[Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers]] to implement antitrust policies in [[occupation of Japan|occupied Japan]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that astrophysicist '''[[Suzanna Randall]]''' ''(pictured)'' continued her research at the [[European Southern Observatory]] while training for the spaceflight programme [[Die Astronautin]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the Danish geologist '''[[Tove Birkelund]]''' ''(pictured)'' received a gold medal for her early work on fossils of ''[[Scaphites]]'' in [[Greenland]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Beryl Benacerraf]]''', pioneer of the nuchal scan, wrote that [[dyslexia]] caused her to live in a world of images where "anomalies jump out at me like a neon sign"?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Nicole Lloyd-Ronning]]''' returned to astrophysics research after a ten-year hiatus, aided by an [[American Physical Society]] award for women with interrupted careers?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that there was an initial agreement for chimpanzees from the private zoo of '''[[Rosalía Abreu]]''' ''(pictured)'' to be part of an experiment to breed a [[humanzee]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Rabab Al-Kadhimi]]''' was threatened with deportation from Egypt due to the political nature of her poetry?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Ruth Huenemann]]''' was one of the first researchers to make a connection between [[socioeconomic status]] and [[childhood obesity]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that American psychologist '''[[Mildred Newman]]''' and her husband treated so many celebrities that the two were known as "therapists of the stars"?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that cosmetic chemist '''[[Balanda Atis]]''' created the [[Foundation (cosmetics)|foundation]] worn by [[Lupita Nyong'o]] in advertisements for [[Lancôme]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the unacknowledged contributions of '''[[Eunice Newton Foote]]''' to [[climate change]] research were recovered by '''[[Elizabeth Wagner Reed]]''', whose research in genetics were also obscured?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Alena Analeigh Wicker]]''' is the youngest Black person to be accepted into medical school in the United States and the youngest person to work as an intern at NASA?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Laura J. Crossey]]'''  has shown that [[travertine]]s ''(example pictured)'' are more likely to form when meteoric groundwater mixes with deeper groundwater from the Earth's mantle?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Katja Husen]]''' was the speaker of the [[Green Youth (Germany)|Green Youth]], a member of the [[Hamburg Parliament]], and the CEO of the [[Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg|Centre for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that when '''[[Jo Ann Evansgardner]]''' ran for a position on the [[Pittsburgh City Council]], she asked voters to "put this woman in her place"?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that 17th-century entomologist '''[[Eleanor Glanville]]''' raised her own moths and butterflies, and wrote some of the earliest detailed descriptions of butterfly rearing?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Ursula Sillge]]'''{{`s}} attempt to organize a 1978 national lesbian gathering in [[East Germany]] led to the banning of [[Charlotte von Mahlsdorf]]'s venue for LGBT meetings?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that research on [[short-finned pilot whale]]s ''(example pictured)'' by '''[[Natacha Aguilar de Soto]]''' is leading scientists to reassess foraging models for the behavior of marine predators?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that prior to '''[[Mary Manhein]]'''{{`s}} forensic-anthropology work in Louisiana, unidentified bones ''(examples pictured)'' "usually ended up in a box"?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Franziska Seidl]]''', born 130 years ago today, [[Matura|finished school]] after her husband's death and then went on to research [[ultrasound]] ''(illustration pictured)'' at the [[University of Vienna]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Sophie Freud]]''', the granddaughter of [[Sigmund Freud]], criticized his theory of [[psychoanalysis]] as a "narcissistic indulgence"?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that British oceanographer '''[[Sonya Legg]]''' has studied the South China Sea, where waves can be taller than 200 metres (660&nbsp;ft)?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that neuroscientist '''[[Beatriz Rico (neuroscientist)|Beatriz Rico]]''' and her team discovered a link between a protein called [[Brevican]] and short-term spatial memory?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Ana Štěrba-Böhm]]''' became the first [[Slovenes|Slovene]] woman with a doctorate in science in 1911?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that ornithologist '''[[Elaina Marie Tuttle]]''' discovered that the [[white-throated sparrow]] has four sexes?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Olga Ehrenhaft-Steindler]]''', the first woman to earn a physics doctorate at the [[University of Vienna]], co-founded the first Viennese commercial academy for girls?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Lisa Winter]]''' ''(pictured)'' took part in robot battles at 10 years old?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that forensic scientist '''[[Angela Gallop]]''' has investigated the stomach contents of [[Diana, Princess of Wales]], alleged alien abductions, and the presence of boar sperm in a hospital patient's intestines?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that astronaut '''[[Dr. Judith Resnik]]''' flew in space with "Tarzan" and "Cheetah"?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Malika Louback]]''' believes her three engineering degrees make her a better fashion model?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Elizabeth Pierce Blegen]]''' ''(pictured)'' was one of the "Quartet" of archaeologists who lived and worked together in Greece as a family, along with [[Ida Hill]], [[Carl Blegen]], and [[Bert Hodge Hill]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Jennifer Webster-Cyriaque]]''' ''(pictured)'' assisted in the founding of [[University of Malawi College of Medicine|Malawi's first dental school]] in 2019?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that American psychoanalyst '''[[Helen Block Lewis]]''' was one of the first researchers to study the difference between shame and guilt?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that Finnish linguist '''[[Eeva Leinonen]]''' was one of four women to be inaugurated as heads of Irish universities in 2021, the others being [[Maggie Cusack]], [[Linda Doyle]] and [[Kerstin Mey]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that Professor of Engineering and the Arts '''[[Linda Doyle]]''' in 2021 became the first female provost (head) of [[Trinity College Dublin]] since its 1592 foundation by [[Elizabeth I]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[Smithsonian Institution|Smithsonian]] archivists are rediscovering the work of photography pioneer '''[[Louisa Bernie Gallaher]]''' ''(pictured)'' after they were misattributed to her boss?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that record-setting airplane spinner '''[[Catherine Cavagnaro]]''' is also a professional mathematician?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that Papuan anthropologist '''[[Marlina Flassy]]''' is the first woman to be appointed a dean at [[Cenderawasih University]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Nandivada Rathnasree]]''', who ran Delhi's planetarium, proposed that astronomers could be taught using India's stone-built observatories?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Mary Earle]]''' ''(pictured)'' was born near [[Ben Nevis]], and although she became a professor of food technology in New Zealand, she never forgot her Scottish roots?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that zoologist '''[[Ruth Crosby Noble]]'''{{`s}} 1945 book on animal behavior was said to have the "rare quality of combining entertainment with sound scientific value"?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Elisabeth Geleerd]]''' became one of the most influential American psychoanalysts of her time while chronically ill and raising a family?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that archaeologist and prehistorian '''[[Jacquetta Hawkes]]''' ''(pictured)'' co-founded the [[Homosexual Law Reform Society]] and the [[Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Kitty Ponse]]''' successfully changed the sex of toads?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Sherita Hill Golden]]''' demonstrated that [[Diabetes|diabetics]] were more likely to develop [[Major depressive disorder|depression]] and that those with depression were more likely to become diabetic?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the English botanists '''[[Jane Ingham]]''' and Joseph Hubert Priestley were the first to separate cell walls from [[meristem]]atic tissues in [[Vicia faba|broad beans]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that after men took all the 2021 [[Nobel Prize]]s for science, one of the selectors, '''[[Eva Olsson (scientist)|Eva Olsson]]''' ''(pictured)'', said "we want to have more women nominated"?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that Colombian-born '''[[Susan Bernal]]''' is developing new cements that can reduce the substantial CO<sub>2</sub> emissions currently caused by concrete?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Małgorzata Kalinowska-Iszkowska]]''' was awarded a Polish [[Cross of Merit (Poland)|Gold Cross of Merit]] for her work in [[information technology]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Chen Wenxin]]''' discovered that planting [[legume]]s and [[Poaceae|grasses]] together can increase yield?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that 100 years after '''[[Mary Emily Sinclair]]''' wrote a master's thesis in mathematics on the [[discriminant]]s of [[Quintic function|quintic polynomials]], [[Helaman Ferguson]] based a sculpture on her work?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Anna Apostolaki]]''', the first Greek woman to work as a professional archaeologist, was also a feminist educator who promoted women's traditional crafts?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Devon Powers]]''' argues in ''Writing the Record'' that 1960s counter-culture music journalists [[Richard Goldstein (writer, born 1944)|Richard Goldstein]] and [[Robert Christgau]] acted as [[Intellectual#Public intellectual|public intellectuals]] despite working outside of academia?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Shirley Chiang]]''' captured the first image of individual [[benzene]] molecules?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that mathematician '''[[Gunilla Kreiss]]''', the daughter of [[Heinz-Otto Kreiss]], later became his [[academic genealogy|granddaughter]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that infectious diseases specialist '''[[Jameela Al Salman]]''' has supported the development of [[medical robot|medical robots]] and called their use in Bahrain a "pioneering experiment"?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that award winner '''[[Lillian Comas-Díaz]]''' became interested in psychology after consoling classmates recovering from a destructive hurricane?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that Chilean psychologist '''[[Neva Milicic Müller]]''' wrote a book about parent–child separation that can help children and caregivers during [[COVID-19 lockdowns|{{nowrap|COVID-19}} lockdowns]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[The Equidistribution of Lattice Shapes of Rings of Integers of Cubic, Quartic, and Quintic Number Fields|Piper Harron's 2016 mathematics doctoral thesis]]''' has been described as "feminist", "unique", "honest", "generous", and "refreshing"?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that when '''[[María Elena Medina-Mora Icaza]]''' was appointed to lead the psychology department at the [[National Autonomous University of Mexico]], she proposed a "zero tolerance" policy for gender violence?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Nilima Arun Kshirsagar]]''' developed and patented liposomal [[Amphotericin B|amphotericin&nbsp;B]], which was used to treat "[[Mucormycosis|black fungus]]" during the [[COVID-19 pandemic in India|{{nowrap|COVID-19}} pandemic in India]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Maria Simon (sociologist)|Maria Simon]]''' and her husband met through [[Hashomer Hatzair|a Jewish youth group]] in Austria but did not marry until ten years later after reconnecting while living as exiles in England?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that Grenadian [[Anatomical pathology|anatomic pathologist]] '''[[Kathleen Coard]]''' is the first female professor of pathology in the Caribbean?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Pamela Trotman Reid]]''', the first Black president of [[University of Saint Joseph (Connecticut)|University of Saint Joseph]], developed the GO-GIRL program?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Carolyn Huntoon]]''' ''(pictured)'' was the first woman to serve as the director of the [[Johnson Space Center]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that German-Chilean research psychologist '''[[Susana Bloch]]''' created a technique actors have been using to access their basic emotions?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Cuilin Zhang]]''' leads a study of about 4,000 women who had diabetes in pregnancy to identify factors in the progression from [[gestational diabetes]] to [[type&nbsp;2 diabetes]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Gretchen Campbell]]'''{{`s}} research on [[Bose–Einstein condensate]]s may provide insight into the expansion of the [[Chronology of the universe|early universe]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the new director of [[DARPA]], '''[[Stefanie Tompkins]]''', was paid by [[NASA]] to analyze [[moon rock]]s?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that when mathematician '''[[Josephine M. Mitchell]]''' married another [[University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign|University of Illinois]] faculty member, the university revoked her [[Academic tenure|tenured]] position so her husband could keep his untenured one?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that when '''[[Ruth Stokes]]''' defended her dissertation on the theory of [[linear programming]] in 1931, she became the first person to earn a doctorate in mathematics from [[Duke University]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that Canadian geneticist '''[[Phyllis McAlpine]]''' was among the first to promote a unified gene nomenclature system and helped found the [[HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that when '''[[Rosa M. Morris]]''' scored 130 percent in her mathematics exams, a special case had to be made at graduation to avoid handicapping other students?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Xiaohong Rose Yang]]''' conducted a [[genome]]-wide search for [[copy number variation]]s to identify the first susceptibility gene for familial [[chordoma]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that biologist '''[[Joni L. Rutter]]''' ''(pictured)'' led the development of the [[All of Us (initiative)|All of Us]] research program to include more than a million participants to advance [[precision medicine]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that as part of her influential research on the [[strawberry|garden strawberry]], '''[[Vivian Lee Bowden]]''' discovered the unpublished drawings of early French botanist [[Antoine Nicolas Duchesne]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Kathy Hudson]]''', an expert in [[science policy]] and [[genetic discrimination]], helped assemble a team that led to the passage of the [[Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that professor '''[[Emma Baker (clinical pharmacologist)|Emma Baker]]''' trained her pharmacology students to perform mass {{nowrap|COVID-19}} testing on their fellows so that they could go home for Christmas?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Diane Damiano]]''' ''(pictured)'', a biomedical scientist and [[Physical therapy|physical therapist]], helped create a [[Powered exoskeleton|robotic exoskeleton]] designed to aid children with [[cerebral palsy]] to learn how to walk?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the most senior of the '''[[African-American scientists and technicians on the Manhattan Project]]''', [[William Jacob Knox Jr.|William Knox]], supervised the otherwise-white staff of the Corrosion Section at [[Columbia University]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that chemist '''[[Ana Kansky]]''' ''(pictured)'' became the first person to be awarded a doctoral degree by the newly established [[University of Ljubljana]] in 1920?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Sandra Wolin]]''', a physician-microbiologist, devised an early [[ribosome profiling]] method as a postdoctoral researcher in [[Peter Walter]]'s lab at the [[University of California, San Francisco]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[physician-scientist]] and [[cancer research]]er '''[[Giovanna Tosato]]''' ''(pictured)'' had just crossed the finish line when the [[Boston Marathon bombing]] started?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Lucia Votano]]''' ''(pictured)'' was the first woman to be appointed director of the [[Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso|Gran Sasso National Laboratory]], the largest underground research center in the world?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that physician '''[[Clare Fowler]]''' and surgeon [[Prokar Dasgupta]] were the first in the UK to use [[Botulinum toxin|Botox]] injections, using a flexible cystoscope, to treat people with overactive bladders?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that botanist '''[[Rosemary Margaret Smith]]''' had both [[Smithatris|an entire genus]] and [[Elettariopsis smithiae|a separate species]] named after her for her major discoveries and classification of [[ginger]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that "noted controversialist" '''[[Mary Aldis (science writer)|Mary Aldis]]''' ''(depicted)'' tried to get Auckland City Council to stop a woman being fired from a cannon in 1887?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the '''[[Homeward Bound (organization)|Homeward Bound]]''' leadership program organized the largest all-woman [[List of Antarctic expeditions|expedition to Antarctica]] in 2019?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Adi Utarini]]''' ''(pictured)'' was listed as one of [[Nature's 10|''Nature''{{'s}} 10]] in 2020 after she released infected mosquitoes all over [[Yogyakarta]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the German anthropologist '''[[Aparna Rao]]''' studied the impact of the [[Kashmir conflict]] on both lives and the environment?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that arachnologist '''[[Ekaterina Andreeva (arachnologist)|Ekaterina Andreeva]]''' wrote the first original monograph published in the USSR about Central Asian spiders?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that Spanish physicist '''[[Teresa Rodrigo]]''' worked on the discovery of the [[Higgs boson]] at [[CERN]] and the discovery of the [[top quark]] at [[Fermilab]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that Israeli physicist '''[[Shikma Bressler]]''', a researcher at the [[CERN]] particle accelerator in Switzerland, is also an initiator of the "Black Flag" [[protests against Benjamin Netanyahu]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that medieval ceramics expert '''[[Jean Le Patourel]]''' was also an expert in the archaeology of dog collars?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that folklorist and archaeologist '''[[Ethel Rudkin]]''' was the first to quantify and categorise sightings of ghostly [[Black dog (ghost)|black dogs]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that German native '''[[Marianne Ignace]]''' is helping to preserve indigenous languages in British Columbia?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Daisy Yen Wu]]''' helped establish the new field of nutrition research at [[Peking Union Medical College]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Dámasa Cabezón]]''' was contracted by the Bolivian government to establish a school for girls in [[La Paz]] after having done so in [[Santiago|Santiago de Chile]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that Ukrainian-born '''[[Stefania Berlinerblau]]''' was one of the first Jewish women to practice surgery in the United States?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the French painter '''[[Danièle Aron-Rosa|Genskof]]''' is a pioneer in laser eye surgery?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Taneko Suzuki]]''', an expert in protein chemistry, led the development of a fish-based product that had the texture of hamburger and could be seasoned to taste like beef?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Ivy Hooks]]''' was one of only two women assigned to the original design team for the [[Space Shuttle orbiter]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the 2019 film ''[[Lucy in the Sky]]'' is loosely based on the life of astronaut '''[[Lisa Nowak]]''' ''(pictured)''{{-?}}
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that scientist '''[[Emma Teeling]]''' of the BatLab in Dublin studies a genus of bats which do not appear to die of old age?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[West Virginia State University|West Virginia State College]] professor '''[[Angie Turner King]]''' was an educator and mentor to entomologist [[Margaret S. Collins]] and [[NASA]] mathematician [[Katherine Johnson]] of ''[[Hidden Figures]]''?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Maria Ovsiankina]]''' studied the [[Zeigarnik effect]] of how people remember unfinished tasks more than completed ones, and described the [[Ovsiankina effect]] of how likely they are to resume those tasks?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that linguist '''[[Esther T. Mookini]]''' translated many works of 19th-century native Hawaiians, including the 1838 ''Anatomia'', the only medical textbook written in the [[Hawaiian language]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[Ornithology|ornithologist]] '''[[Corina Newsome]]''' and [[herpetology|herpetologist]] '''[[Earyn McGee]]''' held events as part of the inaugural '''[[Black Birders Week]]''', an effort to highlight the challenges faced by Black nature enthusiasts?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Irena Sawicka]]''', a Polish archeologist, educator and communist activist, [[Rescue of Jews by Poles during the Holocaust|helped Jews during the Holocaust]] and perished in the [[Warsaw Uprising]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman]]''' co-founded the [[Sadie Collective]], which aims to increase representation of black women in economics and other quantitative fields?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that Portuguese [[HIV]] researcher '''[[Odette Ferreira]]''' flew from Lisbon to Paris with test tubes of blood in her coat to maintain the right temperature for testing at the [[Pasteur Institute]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Gabriella Morreale de Escobar]]''' established a national [[Newborn screening|newborn-screening]] program for [[congenital hypothyroidism]] in Spain?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Angèle Dola Akofa Aguigah]]''' demonstrated that the earthworks at [[Notsé]] in Togo were used to define separate social spaces, not for defence?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that neuroscientist '''[[Michela Gallagher]]'''{{`s}} research group showed that the epilepsy drug [[levetiracetam]] is a candidate to reduce [[mild cognitive impairment]] in patients with Alzheimer's disease?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Lisa Piccirillo]]''' solved a half-century-old mathematics problem in less than a week during her free time in graduate school?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the veterinarian '''[[Janina Oyrzanowska-Poplewska]]''', whose work led to the creation of the first Polish [[canine distemper]] vaccine, has been honored as a [[Righteous Among the Nations]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Ipsita Biswas]]''' led the team that developed less-lethal plastic bullets for [[crowd control in Jammu and Kashmir]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Linda Liau]]''' has developed a personalized vaccine against brain cancer?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that during the rule of the [[Greek junta|Greek military junta]], archaeologist and museum curator '''[[Semni Karouzou]]''' was banned from conducting research in the [[National Archaeological Museum, Athens|National Archaeological Museum]] because of her political views?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Barbara H. Bowman]]''' was one of the scientists who discovered the [[Gene polymorphism|genetic difference]] responsible for variations in [[haptoglobin]], a human [[blood protein]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Julia Azari]]''' has shown that [[President of the United States|U.S. presidents]] increasingly defend their legitimacy by claiming to have a [[Mandate (politics)|political mandate]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Renate Brümmer]]''' ''(pictured)'' and [[Heike John|Heike Walpot]] were the only two women originally selected for the [[German astronaut team]], but neither has gone to space?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Silke Bühler-Paschen]]''' was the first woman to become a full professor of physics at [[TU Wien]] in 2005?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that nephrologist and cellist '''[[Leah Lowenstein]]''', an advocate for [[women in medicine]], was the first female dean of a co-educational medical school in the United States?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Laverne Antrobus]]''' has appeared on the [[BBC]] giving advice and information on [[Developmental psychology|child psychology]] since 2004?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that although '''[[Constance Kies]]''' was a nutrition scientist, she [[Academic major|majored]] in English, and [[Academic minor|minored]] in history, geography, library science, and home economics?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that political scientist '''[[Elizabeth Theiss-Morse]]''' has written a book on the flexibility of the American [[national identity]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that while studying dance, '''[[Anca Giurchescu]]''' joined the Romanian national shooting team and won individual and team medals at the 1955 [[ISSF European Shooting Championships|European Shooting Championships]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Chiara Daraio]]''' has used a version of [[Newton's cradle]] to create "sound bullets", and walls filled with ball bearings to create one-way barriers for sound?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that nuclear scientist '''[[Clarice Phelps]]''' has been recognized as the first African-American woman to be involved with the discovery of a [[chemical element]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that psychologist '''[[Susan Folkman]]''' coined the terms "problem-focused coping" and "emotion-focused coping"?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that Latvian folklorist '''[[Anna Bērzkalne]]''' wrote her 1942 doctoral thesis in English instead of German as a form of non-violent resistance to the [[German occupation of Latvia during World War II|Nazi occupation of Latvia during World War II]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Mary Helen Johnston]]''' ''(pictured)'' was awarded the [[NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal]] before being selected as an astronaut, but has never gone into space?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the 2005 [[BBC]] documentary ''Dead Mums Don't Cry'' follows '''[[Grace Kodindo]]'''{{`s}} efforts to stem the maternal mortality rate in [[Chad]], where pregnant and childbearing women had a 9 per cent chance of dying?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that neuroscientist '''[[Cristina Alberini]]''' uses both mammals, and invertebrates such as [[sea slug]]s, to study memory?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Magdalena K. P. Smith Meyer]]''' was known as the "mother of red-spider mites of the world"?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that former college basketball star '''[[Amy Langville]]''' is an expert in ranking systems, and has applied her ranking expertise to basketball [[bracketology]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that researcher '''[[Heejung Kim]]''' found that the influence of the [[oxytocin receptor]] gene OXTR on social behavior depends on cultural context?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that Egyptian radiologist '''[[Sahar Saleem]]''' has used CT scans of [[Tutankhamun]]'s body to theorise that he died from the effects of a knee fracture?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Wang Jin (archaeologist)|Wang Jin]]''', one of China's first female archaeologists, participated in the discovery of the Neolithic [[Qujialing culture]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that neuroscientist '''[[Kate Jeffery]]''' correctly predicted that her postdoctoral advisor [[John O'Keefe (neuroscientist)|John O'Keefe]] would win a [[Nobel Prize]] in 2014?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Elin C. Danien]]''', an expert on ancient [[Maya civilization|Maya]] ceramics, claimed that "archaeology is the most fun you can have with your pants on"?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that gerontologist '''[[Elaine Brody]]''' used the term "women in the middle" to refer to women who care for their elderly parents while raising their children?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that epidemiologist '''[[Li Lanjuan]]''' was the first to propose [[2020 Hubei lockdowns|a lockdown]] of [[Wuhan]] during [[2019–20 Wuhan coronavirus outbreak|the present coronavirus outbreak]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that even after narrowing the list of suspects in '''[[Geetha Angara homicide|Geetha Angara's unsolved killing]]''', 15 years ago today, down to three men, police could not charge any of them?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that Romanian neuroscientist '''[[Viviana Gradinaru]]''' was part of the research team from [[California Institute of Technology|Caltech]] that found that [[serotonin]] is necessary for sleep in [[zebrafish]] and mice?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that archaeologist '''[[Winifred Lamb]]''' had previously worked in [[Room 40]], the [[Royal Navy]]'s cryptanalysis section, during World War I?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[computer scientist]] '''[[Sheree Atcheson]]''' has been recognised by ''[[Computer Weekly]]'' as one of the "most influential women in UK tech"?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that mathematician '''[[Pamela E. Harris]]''' co-founded the online platform Lathisms to promote [[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic and Latino American]] participation in mathematics?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that Austrian neurologist '''[[Adele Juda]]''' concluded that [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]] was "psychiatrically normal"?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that pediatrician '''[[Noni MacDonald]]''' was invested into the [[Order of Nova Scotia]] in 2019?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that Irish neuroscientist '''[[Sabina Brennan]]''' was a soap actress in the television series ''[[Fair City]]'' before she started investigating [[dementia]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Carole Ann Haswell]]''' was part of the team that discovered the super-Earth-like exoplanet [[Barnard's Star b]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Lucinda L. Combs]]''', the first female [[Medical missions|medical missionary]] to serve in China, established Beijing's first women's hospital?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Lisa Ainsworth]]''' leads a project that involves studying plants under atmospheric conditions that are predicted for 2050?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that evolutionary biologist '''[[Rebecca Kilner]]''' has found that mites can give [[burying beetle]]s a competitive advantage?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Miriam Salpeter]]''' and her husband [[Edwin Ernest Salpeter]] collaborated to study how nerves and muscle fibers interact?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Eleanor Vadala]]''' ''(pictured)'', the third woman in the U.S. to receive [[Federal Aviation Administration|FAA]] certification as a [[Balloon (aeronautics)|balloon]] pilot, also studied and repaired balloons, and drove chase cars after them?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that British neuroscientist '''[[Rebeccah Slater]]''' led a study that showed that not only do [[Pain in babies|babies experience pain]], they may be more sensitive to it than adults?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that scientist '''[[KC Claffy]]''' was inducted into the [[Internet Hall of Fame]] for her work on measuring the Internet?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that Australian biologist '''[[Lee Berger (biologist)|Lee Berger]]''' identified ''[[Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis]]'' as being responsible for the decline and extinction of hundreds of amphibian species?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Olivia Salamanca]]''', one of the founding members of the Philippine Anti-Tuberculosis Society, died from the disease at the age of 24?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[Neural engineering|neuroengineer]] '''[[Maryam Shanechi]]''' and her research team developed a method to determine a person's mood from their brain activity?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Kavya Manyapu]]''' led the development of a dust-repelling fabric for space suits using [[carbon nanotube]]s?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[HIV]] researcher '''[[Diane Havlir]]''' was the U.S. national [[Short track speed skating|short track]] champion in 1974?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that English scientist '''[[Nicola Curtin]]''' donated to charity the £865,000 she received for helping develop the cancer drug [[Rucaparib|Rubraca]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Catriona Ida Macleod]]''' has received a Social Change Award from [[Rhodes University]] for her work in promoting African-based psychology?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Esther Killick]]''' repeatedly "gassed herself for science" in order to study [[carbon monoxide poisoning]] and [[Acclimatization|acclimatisation]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Lu Shijia]]''', founder of China's first university [[aerodynamics]] program, twice declined nominations to the [[Chinese Academy of Sciences]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that before becoming a professional mathematician, '''[[Chikako Mese]]''' was a record-breaking high school [[softball]] player?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that research on [[Pain in fish|pain in fish]] by '''[[Victoria Braithwaite]]''' resulted in new rules in the UK, Europe, and Canada to make fisheries more humane?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Adaora Adimora]]''', an American professor who studies [[sexually transmitted infection]]s among minorities, was named one of the top 100 African American leaders by ''[[The Root (magazine)|The Root]]'' in 2009?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that tropical ecologist '''[[Winifred Hallwachs]]''' helped develop and expand the [[Area de Conservación Guanacaste World Heritage Site|Área de Conservación Guanacaste]] in Costa Rica, which is now a UNESCO [[World Heritage Site]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that during the [[Apollo 11]] program, biomedical engineer '''[[Judy Sullivan]]''' was instantly identifiable if she made an error as she was the only female voice on [[NASA]]'s headset link?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that Kurdish civil engineer and politician '''[[Hevrin Khalaf]]''', who worked for tolerance among Christians, Arabs, and Kurds, was killed in the [[2019 Turkish offensive into north-eastern Syria|2019 Turkish offensive into Syria]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[Order of Canada]] recipient '''[[Thelma Finlayson]]''' was [[Simon Fraser University]]'s first professor emerita?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Anne C. Morel]]''' was the first woman to become a full professor of mathematics at the [[University of Washington]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Anne L. Stevens]]''' disguised herself in order to enroll in the male-only mechanics pit crew at a race track?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Xia Peisu]]''' ''(pictured)'', the "mother of computer science" in China, and her husband '''[[Yang Liming]]''', who helped explain [[Magic number (physics)|magic numbers]], were elected to the [[Chinese Academy of Sciences]] at the same time?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that structural biologist '''[[Erica Ollmann Saphire]]''' traveled to Africa to observe rodents in the field in order to study how viruses like [[Zaire ebolavirus|Ebola]] are spread?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that after '''[[Ruth Darrow]]'''{{`s}} son died from [[hemolytic disease of the newborn]], she was inspired to study the disease, and became the first person to identify its cause?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Józefa Joteyko]]''' believed that wages should be based upon scientific research and the amount of effort required to do a job, rather than arbitrary factors like gender?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that botanist '''[[Betty Flint]]''' continued research in a voluntary capacity at [[Lincoln University (New Zealand)|Lincoln University]] and [[Landcare Research]] until she was 100 years old?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that mathematician '''[[Dona Strauss]]''' left South Africa over [[apartheid]], lost a faculty job at [[Dartmouth College|Dartmouth]] for joining an anti-war protest, and helped found [[European Women in Mathematics]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that medical researcher '''[[Shuping Wang]]''' may have saved tens of thousands of lives by defying authorities and exposing an [[HIV/AIDS in China|HIV/AIDS scandal in China]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that according to dietician '''[[Amy Brown (dietitian)|Amy Brown]]''', a researcher of social barriers to breastfeeding, smacking children is acceptable to more British people than breastfeeding in public?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that pediatric oncologist '''[[Brigid Leventhal]]''' was one of only six women in her graduating class from [[Harvard Medical School]] in 1960?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Lisa Gordon-Hagerty]]''' ''(pictured)'', head of the U.S. [[National Nuclear Security Administration]], once said, "I have more important things to do than advise [[Nicole Kidman]]"?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that Swedish scientist '''[[Marie Dacke]]''' discovered that [[dung beetle]]s can use the [[Milky Way]] to navigate at night?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that Emirati geneticist '''[[Habiba Alsafar]]''' was named as one of the "100 Most Powerful Arab Women" of 2015?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[Union of Armed Struggle|Polish resistance member]] '''[[Alicja Iwańska]]''' became an academic and compared political, religious, and racial persecution in Europe to U.S. segregation restrictions?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Dorothy Christian Hare]]''' was the first woman [[Internal medicine|general physician]] to be elected a fellow of the [[Royal College of Physicians]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that Australian astrophysicist '''[[Kirsten Banks]]''' was inspired to learn about her [[Wiradjuri]] heritage while training at the [[Sydney Observatory]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that South African [[Theoretical physics|theoretical physicist]] '''[[Adriana Marais]]''' was one of 100 candidates chosen for [[Mars One]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Pandrosion]]''' may have been an earlier female contributor to mathematics than [[Hypatia]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the work of '''[[C. Doris Hellman]]''' on the [[Great Comet of 1577]] led historians of science to recognize the comet's key role in the success of the [[Copernican Revolution]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Cynthia Whitchurch]]'''{{`s}} discovery of a novel role for DNA in nature is credited with creating a [[paradigm shift]] in the study of [[biofilm]]s?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that after [[pyrimethamine]] was [[Price gouging|price-hiked]] by 5000 percent, Sydney University chemists '''[[Matthew H. Todd]]''' and '''[[Alice Motion]]''' supported [[Sydney Grammar School|the high school students]] who showed it could be synthesised cheaply?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Kristine M. Larson]]''' ''(pictured)'' and her research team were the first to demonstrate that [[Global Positioning System|GPS]] could be used to detect [[seismic wave]]s?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Sylvia Stoesser]]''' was called the "nasal chemist" because she could often identify the ingredients in an unknown laboratory mixture by smelling it?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Karen Saywitz]]''' developed "non-leading" techniques for interviewing child witnesses and victims?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that American academic '''[[Amy Wax]]''' graduated from [[Harvard Medical School]] before becoming a lawyer?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Summer Rayne Oakes]]''' has been called "the world's first [[Environmental movement|eco]]-model" because she only models clothes made from organic or recycled materials?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Paula R. Pietromonaco]]''' found that [[Attachment theory|attachment styles]] affect how people think and behave during conflict?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that cosmonaut '''[[Valentina Tereshkova]]''' made 42 trips outside the Soviet Union between 1963 and 1970 in response to invitations she received after becoming the first woman in space?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Mae Jemison]]''', the first black woman in space, worked at a Cambodian [[refugee camp]] in Thailand and was a medical officer for the [[Peace Corps]] before becoming an astronaut?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that according to a study conducted by epidemiologist '''[[Xifeng Wu]]''' and her colleagues, fifteen minutes of moderate exercise per day can increase lifespan by an average of three years?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Eleanor C. Pressly]]''' helped develop and launch a series of [[Aerobee]] rockets during the 1957–1958 [[International Geophysical Year]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Gao Xiaoxia]]''' abandoned her PhD studies to leave America in 1951, just before the US government banned Chinese students from returning home?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that in 1953, '''[[Satyawati Suleiman]]''' became the first woman to receive a degree in archaeology from the [[University of Indonesia]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that researcher '''[[Leslie Leve]]''' has found that parents' depression is associated with an increased likelihood of behavioral problems in their children?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Joanne Berger-Sweeney]]''' is the first African-American and first woman to serve as president of [[Trinity College (Connecticut)|Trinity College]], Connecticut?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that ''Women and Politics in Canada'' by '''[[Janine Brodie]]''' was the first book to study Canadian women in political campaigns between 1945 and 1975?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that reproductive immunologist '''[[Anne Croy]]''' was elected a [[Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada]] for her work with [[Natural killer cell#NK cell function in pregnancy|uterine natural killer cells during pregnancy]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that developmental researcher '''[[Marion Underwood]]''' found that a group of [[Ninth grade|ninth-grade]] students sent an average of 1,321 [[Text messaging|text messages]] a month?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that Dutch physician '''[[Aletta Jacobs]]'''{{`s}} legal challenge to be added to the Amsterdam electoral rolls backfired, leading to a [[Constitution of the Netherlands#History|constitutional amendment]] granting voting rights to men only?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Kitty O'Brien Joyner]]''' ''(pictured)'' was the first woman engineer at [[National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics|NACA]], the predecessor to [[NASA]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that although '''[[Isabella Forshall]]''' did not go to school, she gained two university degrees and four postgraduate diplomas in medicine and surgery?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Zhang Dongju]]''', '''[[Chen Fahu]]''', and [[Jean-Jacques Hublin|J.-J. Hublin]] discovered that [[Xiahe mandible|a fossil jaw]] from '''[[Baishiya Karst Cave|Baishiya Cave]]''' belonged to the first known [[Denisovan]] outside Siberia and the first known human on the [[Tibetan Plateau]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Lydia Manley Henry]]''', the first woman to graduate from the [[University of Sheffield]] medical school, was awarded the ''[[Croix de Guerre]]''?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the deep-sea [[coral]] species '''''[[Gersemia juliepackardae]]''''' was named for '''[[Julie Packard]]''' ''(pictured)'', executive director of [[Monterey Bay Aquarium]], for her work as an [[Marine conservation|ocean conservationist]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Wenona Giles]]''' helped 59 people in the [[Dadaab]] refugee camp, Kenya, earn a Certificate of Completion in Educational Studies from Canada's [[York University]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Oriana Wilson]]''' discovered [[Australasian bent-wing bat|a new species of bat]], which was then named after her?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[Computer-generated imagery|imaging]] scientist '''[[Katie Bouman]]''' first learned of the [[Event Horizon Telescope]] in 2007, while still in high school, and joined the project six years later?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Stella Abidh]]''' is believed to be the first [[Indo-Trinidadian and Tobagonian|Indo-Trinidadian]] woman to become a medical doctor?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that former astrophysicist '''[[Alejandra Melfo]]''' now works on preserving microbial life from Venezuela's rapidly receding last glacier?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that according to research led by '''[[Dana Lepofsky]]''', some [[clam garden]]s on the Pacific Northwest Coast are up to 3,500 years old?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Cynthia García Coll]]''' from Puerto Rico has researched the [[psychological resilience]] of children born to [[Teenage pregnancy|teen mothers]] and of immigrant children?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Sabine Hyland]]''' discovered that the [[Inca Empire|Incas]] may have written phonetic information in knotted cords called [[Quipu|khipus]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Jane Somerville]]''' has "Unicorns" all around the world?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that when '''[[Barbara Low (biochemist)|Barbara Low]]''' and [[Dorothy Hodgkin]] determined the structure of [[penicillin]] in 1945, it was the largest molecule ever to be successfully investigated by [[X-ray crystallography]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that researchers '''[[Eileen Shore]]''' and '''[[Frederick Kaplan]]''' discovered the mutation responsible for [[Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva|a disease that turns muscle into bone]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that sexual-health doctor '''[[Mags Portman]]''' and activist '''[[Greg Owen (activist)|Greg Owen]]''' worked together to provide accessible [[HIV]] medication, preventing thousands of new HIV infections in the United Kingdom?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Wang Yening]]''' helped establish China's first specialization in X-ray metal physics?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the 1961 book '''''[[Ishi in Two Worlds]]''''' by '''[[Theodora Kroeber]]''' told the story of [[Ishi]] ''(pictured)'', the last known member of the [[Yana people#Yahi|Yahi people]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Lulu Grace Graves]]''' was co-founder and first president of the [[Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics|American Dietetic Association]] when it formed in 1917?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Elena Ivanovna Barulina]]'''{{`s}} 1930 paper became a standard guide to [[lentil]]s ''(seeds pictured)''?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Chuang Shu-chi]]''' was the first licensed female practitioner of [[traditional Chinese medicine]] in Taiwan?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[Freeman Dyson]] used a result by '''[[Marian Pour-El]]''' on the [[Undecidable problem|mathematical undecidability]] of the [[wave equation]] as evidence for the superiority of analog to digital forms of life?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the work of physician '''[[Elizabeth Ness MacBean Ross|Elizabeth Ross]]''' is still commemorated annually in Serbia despite her having spent only three weeks in the country?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that NASA [[Astrobiology|exobiologist]] '''[[Darlene Lim]]''' studies underwater volcanoes and desert stations in the [[Northern Canada|Canadian High Arctic]] to prepare humans for missions to [[Mars]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that in 1909, '''[[Ivy Evelyn Woodward|Ivy Woodward]]''' became the first female member of the [[Royal College of Physicians]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that a bracelet lost by '''[[Josephine Heffernan]]''' during the [[World War I|First World War]] was found in 2002, and returned to her family in 2017?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that computational biologist '''[[Bette Korber]]''' describes her development of a mosaic [[antigen]] vaccine against [[HIV]] as creating "little Frankenstein proteins"?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that in 1959, '''[[Lois Graham]]''' became the first woman in the United States to earn a PhD in [[mechanical engineering]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that while raising two young children, '''[[Li Minhua]]''' ''(pictured)'' became the first woman to earn a [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] in mechanical engineering at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Zhang Yonglian]]''', who spent 20 years doing classified research for the Chinese government, founded a laboratory to study [[sperm]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Wang Enduo]]''' survived breast cancer to become an academician of both the [[Chinese Academy of Sciences]] and [[The World Academy of Sciences]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that this month, the armour and explosives researcher '''[[Penelope Endersby]]''' became the first female chief executive of the [[Met Office]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that over the course of 45 years of conservation work by ornithologist '''[[Helen Hays]]''' ''(pictured)'', the [[tern]] population of [[Great Gull Island]] increased tenfold?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that based on her discoveries, '''[[Chen Saijuan]]''' developed treatment for [[acute promyelocytic leukemia]], turning it into a highly curable disease?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that in 2008, a team led by French astrophysicist '''[[Anne-Marie Lagrange]]''' directly imaged [[Beta Pictoris b]], an [[exoplanet]], confirming predictions of a massive planet existing around the star [[Beta Pictoris]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that in 1910, Indian obstetrician and gynaecologist '''[[Dossibai Patell]]''' became the first female member of the [[Royal College of Surgeons of England]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that neuroscientist '''[[Yang Dan (neuroscientist)|Yang Dan]]''' and her team discovered that mice either enter a dream state or eat more in response to activation of certain brain neurons?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[Bryology|bryologist]] '''[[Margaret Sibella Brown]]''' was awarded an honorary master of arts degree from [[Acadia University]] at the age of 84?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Yang Dan (chemist)|Yang Dan]]''' was awarded the [[List of TWAS Prize laureates|TWAS Prize]] for synthesizing bioactive natural compounds?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that neuroendocrinologist '''[[Catherine Woolley (scientist)|Catherine Woolley]]''' found evidence of [[Neuroplasticity|brain plasticity]] using [[Golgi's method|a technique]] described in 1873?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Joan L. Mitchell]]''' co-invented [[JPEG]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that racist graffiti on mathematician '''[[Chawne Kimber]]'''{{`s}} college campus, along with [[George Carlin]]'s [[seven dirty words]], inspired her to politicize her [[quilting]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that in 1934, the Austrian biochemist '''[[Regina Kapeller-Adler]]''' ''(pictured)'' developed an innovative [[Pregnancy test|test for early pregnancy]] based on the presence of [[histidine]] in urine?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the company set up by [[Horticulture|horticulturist]] '''[[Theodosia Burr Shepherd]]''' is considered the foundation of the California seed industry?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that in 2017, '''[[Renee Rabinowitz]]''' successfully sued [[El Al]] after the airline forced her to move at the request of a [[Haredi Judaism|Haredi Jewish]] man who refused to sit beside her?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Eleonore Trefftz]]''' was the second woman to become a scientific member of the [[Max Planck Society]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that sociologist '''[[Ashley Mears]]''' conducted an [[ethnography]] of the fashion industry while working as a model in New York and London?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that in 2001, [[HIV/AIDS]] campaigner '''[[Minoo Mohraz]]''' defied a media ban by using the word "[[condom]]" on [[Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting|Iranian national television]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Margaret Storkan]]''' made seven trips to the developing world on the hospital ship [[SS Hope|SS ''Hope'']] where she was the only dermatologist?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Mary Blair Moody]]''' became the first woman to earn an MD from [[University at Buffalo|Buffalo Medical College]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that a story by Argentine mathematician '''[[Magdalena Mouján]]''' about a [[Basques|Basque]] family that travels back in time to their homeland was blocked by the [[Francoist Spain|Franco regime]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that a solar-powered device for extracting water from the air, co-designed by '''[[Evelyn Wang]]''', has been compared to the moisture vaporators in ''[[Star Wars]]''?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that air conditioning refrigerant [[2,3,3,3-Tetrafluoropropene|HFO-1234yf]], developed by a team led by '''[[Barbara Haviland Minor]]''', is believed to be used in 50% of new vehicles produced in 2018, to help counter [[global warming]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the research of 2017 [[Spinoza Prize]] winner '''[[Eveline Crone]]''' has led the Netherlands to extend its juvenile detention age limit from 18 to 23?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Li Lin (physicist)|Li Lin]]''', her husband, and her father ''(pictured together with her mother)'' were all academicians of the [[Chinese Academy of Sciences]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that 98 years ago, biologist '''[[Edith A. Roberts|Edith Roberts]]''' founded the first ecological laboratory in the US, inspiring landscape architect '''[[Elsa Rehmann]]''' to use native [[Plant community|plant communities]] in [[garden design]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that Princess '''[[Vera Gedroits]]''' ''(pictured)''—good author but indifferent poet, lesbian but married a man—was a Russian military surgeon who pioneered battlefield [[laparotomy]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that after she was fired by fascists for being a Jew, agronomist '''[[Elza Polak]]''' ran a network of gardens to feed the [[Yugoslav Partisans|Yugoslav Partisan]] resistance movement during World War II?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Jill S. Tietjen]]''' tries to supply more role models for [[Women in engineering in the United States|women in engineering]] and [[Women in STEM fields|technology]] by regularly nominating candidates for awards and halls of fame?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that despite being a Serb, '''[[Tatjana Ljujić-Mijatović]]''' stayed in [[siege of Sarajevo|Serb-besieged Sarajevo]] and became the only woman member of the wartime [[Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that Croatian [[Oceanography|oceanographer]] '''[[Mira Zore-Armanda]]''' had difficulty gaining passage on research vessels because she was a woman?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Birgit Arrhenius]]''' revealed that a [[Torslunda plates|Torslunda plate]] helmeted figure, thought to represent [[Odin]], had its eye deliberately struck out, consistent with the associated legend?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Greta Arwidsson]]''', Sweden's first female professor of Scandinavian and Comparative Archaeology, turned to the subject while excavating the [[Valsgärde]] [[Ship burial|boat graves]] in school?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that Hungarian mathematician '''[[Márta Svéd]]''' earned her Ph.D. at age 75?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Emily Riehl]]''', former bassist for the band Unstraight, wrote about "unstraightening" in her research as a professional mathematician?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that when the English surgeon '''[[Frances Ivens]]''' joined the military hospital at [[Scottish Women's Hospital at Royaumont|Royaumont]] in France during the First World War, she had no experience in treating men?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that oceanographer and former [[Florida State University]] dean '''[[Nancy Marcus]]''' was also a magician and [[ventriloquism|ventriloquist]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the [[Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs|Pugwashite]], '''[[Patricia Lindop]]''', worked with Nobel Prize winner [[Joseph Rotblat]] on the effects of radiation on living organisms?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that in 1896, [[Arthur Schuster]] illustrated his lectures on the newly-discovered [[X-ray]]s with images of his daughter '''[[Norah Schuster]]''' ''(hands pictured)'' that required a 10-minute exposure?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Annalisa Crannell]]''' brings [[chopsticks]] to art galleries as a tool for finding [[vanishing point]]s?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that Australian mathematician '''[[Katherine Heinrich]]''' was the first female president of the [[Canadian Mathematical Society]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that before becoming chair of the [[Millennium Development Authority]], '''[[Yaa Ntiamoah Badu]]''' worked at the University of Ghana as a zoologist?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Margaret O'Flynn]]''' and her husband John Foley were the first wife-and-husband fellows of the [[Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Ilya Espino de Marotta]]''', lead engineer for the [[Panama Canal expansion project]], wears a pink hard hat on site to make a statement that women can do the job?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Gwen Fleming]]''', the first female major in the [[Royal Australian Army Medical Corps]], was called "sir" by her colleagues during the Second World War?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[MacArthur Fellows Program|Genius Grant]] winner '''[[Regina Barzilay]]''' helped decipher the ancient language [[Ugaritic]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that when '''[[He Luli]]''' was 14, an assassin's bombs killed her younger sister?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that US-educated sociologist '''[[Lei Jieqiong]]''' ''(pictured)'' served as vice-mayor of Beijing and taught at [[Peking University]] until the age of 100?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Carys Bannister]]''' drove rally cars and exhibited [[Welsh Corgi|corgis]] when not performing brain surgery?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Eugénie Henderson]]''' taught [[Far East|Far Eastern]] languages to the British Armed Forces during World War II?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Mollie McGeown]]''' set up the first [[dialysis]] unit in Northern Ireland?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Rosemary Biggs]]''' and her colleagues discovered the Christmas factor?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the asteroid [[11441 Anadiego]] was named after '''[[Ana Teresa Diego]]''', an Argentine student activist who was [[Forced disappearance|forcibly disappeared]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that a [[silverback gorilla]] sat on '''[[Hilary Swarts]]'''{{`}} head?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Marjorie Hahn]]''', a retired mathematics professor and international senior-level tennis player, approaches tennis games with the same plan that she uses for mathematical proofs?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Nicole Grobert]]''', professor of [[nanomaterials]] at the [[University of Oxford]], was awarded a [[Fellow of the Royal Society#Research Fellowships and other awards|Royal Society Industry Fellowship]] in 2016, her third fellowship from the Royal Society?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that marine biologist '''[[Marie Darby]]''', the first New Zealand woman to visit the Antarctic mainland, sailed to the [[Ross Sea]] on a tourist boat that ran aground on its first trip?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Diana Beck]]''' performed brain surgery on ''[[Winnie-the-Pooh (book)|Winnie-the-Pooh]]'' author [[A. A. Milne]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Jenny Morton]]''' discovered that sheep can recognise human faces?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the British [[paediatrician]] '''[[Tina Cooper]]''' assisted the [[Sierra Leone]] government in establishing a national immunisation programme?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Gillian Hanson]]''' was a world expert on treating the condition that ultimately killed her?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Elizabeth M. Bryan]]'''{{`s}} wedding was attended by 25 sets of twins?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Jeanne LaDuke]]''' worked alongside [[Natalie Wood]] as a child actor before becoming a professional mathematician?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Jane Wynne]]''' taught her fellow [[paediatrician]]s to identify signs of child abuse?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Olive Scott]]''' was Britain's first dedicated [[pediatrics|paediatric]] [[Cardiology|cardiologist]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that biologist '''[[Inez Whipple Wilder]]''' made contributions to the study of fingerprints and salamanders?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Amy H. Herring]]''' led a study whose data showed many American women were reportedly [[Virginity|virgins]] at the birth of their first child?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the English [[neurologist]] '''[[Honor Smith]]''' was sent to Morocco by the [[World Health Organization|WHO]] to investigate an outbreak of paralysis caused by contaminated cooking oil?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Judith Kingston]]''' pioneered the use of chemotherapy to treat [[retinoblastoma]], an eye cancer found in children?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that in her first senate speech, socialist politician '''[[Fatma Hikmet İşmen]]''' accused the [[Directorate of Religious Affairs]] of fueling discrimination against [[Alawites]] by [[Sunni Islam|Sunni Muslims]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Barbara A. Bailar]]''' resigned from the [[United States Census Bureau]] in 1988 to protest a decision not to adjust the [[1990 United States Census|1990 results]] for systematic undercounting of minorities?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Anna Marguerite McCann]]''', the first female American [[Underwater archaeology|underwater archaeologist]], published the earliest research on [[Deep sea|deep-sea]] shipwrecks?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Jean Ginsburg]]''' established one of the first clinics in Britain for menopausal women?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that computer science lecturer '''[[Cynthia B. Lee]]''' promoted the use of gender-neutral language across her department at [[Stanford University]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Abbie Hutty]]''' hopes there really ''is'' [[life on Mars]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Melahat Okuyan]]''', a Turkish female [[microbiology|microbiologist]] and AIDS activist, once proposed the establishment of [[Male prostitution#Male brothels|male brothels]] for homosexuals and [[cross-dressing|cross-dresser]]s in order to improve public health?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Averil Mansfield]]''', a former president of the [[British Medical Association]], was Britain's first female professor of surgery?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Selna Kaplan]]''' led the first clinical trials of artificial [[growth hormone]] in the United States?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Fannie Eleanor Williams]]''' created blood storage techniques used in the first Australian blood bank?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Alison Van Eenennaam]]''' is working on a collaborative research project focused on the production of hornless dairy cattle through [[Genome editing|gene editing]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Annie Nicolette Zadoks Josephus Jitta]]'''{{`s}} unusual name inspired a book?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Christine Murrell]]''' was the first woman elected to the British [[General Medical Council]], but died before she could take her seat?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[Maryam Mirzakhani]] won the '''[[Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics|Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize]]''' for women in mathematics a year before she won the [[Fields Medal]] for the same work?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Anette Hosoi]]''' designed a robot snail that moved by rippling over artificial [[snail slime]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Kim Cobb]]''' used coral to profile [[El Niño]] over seven thousand years?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the hull of [[USS Albacore (AGSS-569)|USS ''Albacore'']] ''(launch pictured)'' had the '''[[Hilda Lyon|Lyon Shape]]''' that was originally designed for airships by a woman?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that when '''[[Elissa P. Benedek]]''' was named president of the [[American Psychiatric Association]] in 1990, she was only the second woman to fill that post since the group's founding in 1844?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that Canadian theoretical physicist '''[[Helen Freedhoff]]''' was doctoral advisor to [[Erwin Schrödinger|Schrödinger]]'s grandson?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Constance Wood]]''' was the first to install a cyclotron in a hospital, but was teased by one of her patients with a rat?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Bencie Woll]]''' was the first person to hold a professorship in [[sign language]] in the United Kingdom?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Kate Devlin]]''' is a computer scientist working in the field of [[sex robot]]s and human-computer interaction?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Frieda Fraser]]''' and [[Edith Williams]] corresponded for 24 years before they were able to acquire a home to live together in 1941?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[Krebiozen]], an expensive cancer treatment scam, was unmasked in 1963 by chemist '''[[Alma Levant Hayden]]''' ''(pictured)''?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Mary M. Crawford]]''' became [[Brooklyn]]'s first female ambulance surgeon after the hospital forgot to exclude women from applying?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Margot Shiner]]''', who fled Nazi Germany as a teenager, was instrumental in establishing the medical subspecialty of [[paediatric gastroenterology]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Linda Laubenstein]]''' was one of the first physicians in the United States to recognize the [[HIV/AIDS|AIDS]] epidemic in the early 1980s?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Kong Tai Heong]]''', the first Chinese woman to practice medicine in Hawaii, was credited by ''[[Ripley's Believe It or Not!]]'' as having delivered over 6,000 babies?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that astronomer '''[[Sidney C. Wolff]]''' was the first woman to direct a major observatory in the United States?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Anne Penfold Street]]''', one of Australia's leading mathematicians, earned bachelor's and master's degrees in chemistry before switching to mathematics?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Gail G. Shapiro]]''' was the first democratically elected president of the [[American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that African-American mathematics professor '''[[Thyrsa Frazier Svager]]''' and her physics professor husband Aleksandar Svager lived on one salary to build a scholarship fund?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the linguistic research of '''[[Elena Georgieva]]''' showed that [[Bulgarian grammar#Word order|Bulgarian word order]] may change based on the emphasis a speaker wants to convey?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Louise Nixon Sutton]]''' was the first African-American woman to be awarded a PhD in mathematics by [[New York University]] in 1962?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the Australian teacher '''[[Lorna Hodgkinson]]''' ''(pictured)'' was the first woman to receive a Doctorate of Education at [[Harvard University]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that microbiologist '''[[Jane Gibson]]''' established through her 1954 discovery that [[selenium]], a [[trace element]], is essential for [[coliform bacteria|coliform bacterial]] growth?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that Egyptologist '''[[Caroline Ransom Williams]]''' supervised the reception and installation of the [[Tomb of Perneb]] at the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Susannah Fox]]''', the U.S. government's [[Chief Technology Officer of the Department of Health and Human Services|chief health technology executive]], cited the [[Maker culture|maker movement]] as a promising source of future healthcare innovation?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the [[Molecular biology|molecular biologist]] '''[[Nessa Carey]]''' cites the slight figure of actress [[Audrey Hepburn]] ''(pictured)'' to illustrate the possible impacts of [[epigenetics]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[Joe Biden]] went door-to-door with '''[[Stephanie Hansen]]''' to help her win '''[[Delaware's 10th state senate district special election, 2017|a recent special election]]''' to the [[Delaware Senate]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Marjorie G. Horning]]''' demonstrated that drugs and their [[Drug metabolism|metabolites]] can be transferred from a pregnant woman to her developing child?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Alice Bowman]]''', Mission Operations Manager of the ''[[New Horizons]]'' [[Pluto]] exploration mission, is also a [[bassist]] and [[clarinet]]ist?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Maria Eugenia Bozzoli]]''' was one of the founders of anthropology in Costa Rica?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the British anthropologist '''[[Karin Barber]]''' started her academic career at the [[Obafemi Awolowo University|University of Ife]], where she was required to teach in Yoruba?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that Czech-Israeli [[food technology]] researcher '''[[Zdenka Samish]]''' said that every fruit and vegetable can be made into jam?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Mary Jackson (engineer)|Mary Jackson]]''' ''(pictured)'' became the first black female engineer at [[NASA]] after successfully petitioning the City of [[Hampton, Virginia]], to allow her to attend required graduate courses at a [[Racial segregation in the United States|whites-only]] school?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that as CEO of [[Intel]] Israel, '''[[Maxine Fassberg]]''' encouraged women, Arabs, [[Druze]], and [[Haredi Judaism|Haredi]] Jews to enter the high-tech sector?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that when '''[[Sarah Bavly]]''' arrived in Jerusalem to open a nutrition department in a new health center, she was forced to hide in the building for a week due to the outbreak of the [[1929 Palestine riots]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that before starting her pioneering genetic studies of complex human diseases such as [[atherosclerosis]], '''[[Nobuyo Maeda]]''' researched [[Hydrophiinae|sea snake]] [[snake venom|venoms]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that after '''[[Agnes Fay Morgan]]''' conducted a nutritional study with foxes, she presented her data wearing a [[stole (shawl)|stole]] made from the fur of her subjects?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[Epidemiology|epidemiologist]] '''[[Yasmin Altwaijri]]''' encourages other Saudi Arabian women to become scientists, arguing that this need not "cross the boundaries of our societal norms and customs"?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Salinee Tavaranan]]''' and her Border Green Energy Team installed [[solar power|solar panels]] and [[micro hydro|micro-hydro turbines]] at the [[Mae La refugee camp]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that cancer biologist '''[[Lubna Tahtamouni]]''' earned her PhD abroad and encouraged students from underprivileged regions of her native [[Jordan]] to do the same?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[The Bronx High School of Science|Bronx High School of Science]] graduate '''[[Naomi Amir]]''' is credited as "the founder of modern child neurology in Israel"?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that mathematician '''[[Moon Duchin]]''' was inspired to break [[Gender role|gender barriers]] in mathematics by a book on baseball player [[Jackie Robinson]]'s struggles against racism?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Nancy Sottos]]''' helped create the first polymeric [[self-healing material]], announced in ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'' in 2001?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Ami Radunskaya]]''', a mathematician who heads the [[Association for Women in Mathematics]], spent ten years as a [[cello|cellist]] and [[composer|music composer]] between high school and college?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the [[Industrial relations|labour studies]] scholar '''[[Kendra Coulter]]''' calls for interspecies solidarity between human and animal workers?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Helen Boyle]]''' was the first female president of the [[Royal Medico-Psychological Association]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the [[Bioarchaeology|bioarchaeologist]] '''[[Charlotte Roberts]]''' once worked as a nurse on a burns unit?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that 18th-century chemist '''[[Claudine Picardet]]''' translated scientific articles from Swedish, English, German, and Italian into French?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Lisbeth Hockey]]''' was the first nurse to be awarded an honorary fellowship by the [[Royal College of General Practitioners]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that in addition to becoming the first female full professor at [[Northwestern University]], botanist '''[[Margery C. Carlson]]''' had a [[nature preserve]] named after her?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the entomologist '''[[Alice Gray]]''' became known as the "Bug Lady" for her work with the public at the [[American Museum of Natural History]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that in 2010 '''[[Joanne M. Maguire]]''' became the first woman to receive the International von Kármán Wings Award?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that in 2000, '''[[Susan Hanson (geographer)|Susan Hanson]]''' became the first female geographer to be elected to both the [[National Academy of Sciences]] and the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Margaret Ursula Jones]]''' directed work at [[Mucking (archaeological site)|Mucking]], the largest [[archaeological excavation]] ever undertaken in Britain, for thirteen years, while living on site year round in a small caravan?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that botanist '''[[Margaret Blackwood|Dame Margaret Blackwood]]''' studied pine trees and maize, and had a species of fungus named after her?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[physicist]]s Justin Khoury and '''[[Amanda Weltman]]''' proposed an explanation for the existence of [[dark energy]] when the latter was 24 years old?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that a 1923 book by [[Progressive Era]] activist '''[[Kate Claghorn]]''' has been called "the one significant contemporary study of the immigrant and the American legal system"?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that as acting commissioner of the [[Bureau of Labor Statistics]], '''[[Aryness Joy Wickens]]''' was the highest-paid woman in the [[United States federal civil service|US civil service]] in 1954?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Jane Hamilton Hall]]''' oversaw the construction of the [[Clementine (nuclear reactor)|Clementine]], the world's first [[fast reactor]], the first to be fueled by plutonium and the first to use a liquid metal coolant?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Jeanne Burbank]]''' designed batteries for the first nuclear submarine, the [[USS Nautilus (SSN-571)|USS ''Nautilus'' (SSN-571)]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the botanist '''[[Ethel Thomas]]''' designed the [[University of London]]'s botany garden in [[Regent's Park]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Lois Jones (scientist)|Lois Jones]]''' led the first all-woman science team to [[Antarctica]] in 1969?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Elizabeth Truswell]]''' used ancient [[pollen]] to show that plants existed in [[Antarctica]] before the ice cap formed?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Helen Fricker]]''' was a member of the first group to drill into an Antarctic [[subglacial lake]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[In-Young Ahn]]''' ''(pictured)'' was the first Korean woman to visit [[Antarctica]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that a 1980s slide show of Asian [[lesbian]]s in history and literature created by '''[[June Chan]]''' and Katherine Hall has been called "grassroots scholarship"?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Rita Harradence]]''' and her husband synthesised [[penicillamine]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that Ukrainian-American [[endocrinologist]] '''[[Rita Sapiro Finkler|Ricka Sapiro Finkler]]''' began using the name Rita after [[Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Center|Saint Vincent's Hospital]] offered her a job which they later retracted when they discovered she was a woman?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Margarete Zuelzer]]''', only the 37th woman to earn a doctorate at the [[University of Heidelberg]], had to get special permission from her professors to attend their classes?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Utako Okamoto]]''', discoverer of [[tranexamic acid]], worked with her infant daughter on her back in the laboratory, as she could not find child care?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Ora Mendelsohn Rosen]]''' and her colleagues achieved a scientific breakthrough by cloning the human [[insulin receptor]] gene?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Louise Stevens Bryant]]''', a secretary for the [[Girl Scouts of the USA|Girl Scouts]], also worked with the English sexologist [[Havelock Ellis]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Mary Cabot Wheelwright]]''' ''(pictured as a child)'' recorded details about Navajo ceremonies in the early 20th century from medicine man [[Hosteen Klah]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Barbara Tsakirgis]]''' worked at archaeological excavation sites in [[Sicily]] for her doctoral thesis on the subject of Hellenistic houses at [[Morgantina]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that, speaking at the 2014 Conference on the Culture of Peace, '''[[Vijaya Melnick]]''' said that [[violence against women]] "continues to be our greatest shame and tragedy"?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the Welsh professor '''[[Karen Holford]]''' entered the first rounds of the [[Formula Woman|2004 Formula Woman Championship]] behind the wheel of a [[Caterham 7]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Ina Plug]]'''{{`s}} research work on [[fossil]]s from a site of an Early [[Iron Age]] settlement in the farm "Diamant" near Ellisr in South Africa was of [[Africanis|domestic dogs]] dated to 570 AD?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Helen Matusevich Oujesky]]''' pursued environmental research on pollution of soil and water, particularly of [[toxic waste]]s?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that forensic chemist '''[[Mary Louisa Willard]]''' was referred to as "Lady Sherlock" for assisting law enforcement officials?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Emily Temple-Wood]]''' says she will create a [[Wikipedia]] article about a [[Women in science|woman scientist]] for every harassing email she receives?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[National Security Agency|NSA]] [[cryptanalysis|cryptanalyst]] '''[[Dorothy Blum]]''' was using the [[Fortran]] programming language three years before its public release in 1957?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that biologist '''[[Katherine Sanford]]''' was the first person to successfully [[Cloning#Cell_cloning|clone]] a mammal cell ''[[in vitro]]''?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[Cell biology|cell biologist]] '''[[Ruth Lehmann]]''' studied [[Drosophila_embryogenesis#Maternal_effect_genes|maternal effect genes]] in [[Drosophila melanogaster|fruit flies]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that conservation biologist '''[[Leela Hazzah]]''' began a program teaching [[Maasai people|Maasai hunters]] to protect lions instead of hunt them?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[medical genetics|medical geneticist]] '''[[Meena Upadhyaya]]''' has developed tests to diagnose more than 20 genetic diseases?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Lesley Fallowfield|Dame Lesley Fallowfield]]''' was the UK's first professor of psycho-oncology?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that bioanalytical chemist '''[[Cynthia Larive]]''' uses [[Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy|NMR]] and [[mass spectroscopy]] to authenticate the contents of [[pomegranate juice]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Doris Mackinnon]]''' had a reputation for never repeating a lecture in 30 years?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the political scientist '''[[Siobhan O'Sullivan]]''' argues that animal activists should focus on the inconsistent treatment of animals relative to other animals, not relative to humans?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Yue Qi]]''' was a winner of the [[Foresight Institute Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology|Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology]] as a graduate student, and then went on to do research for [[General Motors]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Ann T. Bowling|Ann Bowling]]''' studied [[hereditary disease]]s in animals that were genetically linked to their coat color?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the British [[plant pathologist]] '''[[Mary Dilys Glynne|Mary Glynne]]''' climbed [[Mount Fuji]] when she was 68?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Suzanne Duigan]]''' was a botanist who specialised in [[palynology]], particularly the study of fossil [[pollen]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Olga Tufnell]]''' assisted in unearthing the biblical city of [[Tel Lachish|Lachish]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Christiane Floyd]]''' was the first female professor of computer science in Germany?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that Canada's status as a bilingual country inspired '''[[Janet Werker]]''' to study [[language acquisition]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Jennifer Childs-Roshak]]''' is the first person with a medical degree to become the chief executive of a [[Planned Parenthood]] affiliate?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Zvezdelina Stankova]]''' brought ideas from her Bulgarian mathematical education to California by founding the Berkeley [[Math circle|Math Circle]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Norma Cox Astwood]]''', a [[clinical psychologist]], became Vice President of the [[Senate of Bermuda]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Beatrice Helen Worsley]]''' wrote the first program for the [[Manchester Mark 1]], received the first PhD in [[computer science]], and holds the record among [[Women's Royal Naval Service|WRENs]] for the longest time at sea?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Angela Hartley Brodie]]'''{{'}}s award-winning research led to the development of [[steroidal aromatase inhibitors]] as new treatments for [[breast cancer]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that while everyone else thought the [[Equisetum arvense|field horsetail]] growing on [[Plant nursery|nursery land]] in [[Palmerston North]] was ornamental, Dame '''[[Ella Orr Campbell]]''' correctly identified it as an invasive species?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that according to '''[[Lynne Kelly (science writer)|Lynne Kelly]]'''{{'}}s theory, [[Stonehenge]] was used as a centre for recording and accessing knowledge?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Velma Scantlebury]]''', the first [[African American]] woman [[transplant surgeon]] in the United States, estimates she has completed over 2,000 organ transplants?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Brenda Andrews]]''' co-led a team of scientists to create the first fully detailed cell protein map?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that one of the first women to work in [[radio astronomy]], '''[[Elizabeth Alexander (astronomer)|Elizabeth Alexander]]''', actually preferred [[geology]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that nuclear chemist and [[Haitinger Prize]] winner '''[[Elizabeth Rona]]''' worked at the '''[[Bornö Marine Research Station]]''' for twelve summers analyzing sea sediments for their radium content?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Cicely Pearl Blair|Cicely Blair]]''' discovered that people with [[albinism]] cannot get [[Comedo|blackheads]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Frances Stackhouse Acton|Fanny Knight]]''' excavated a Roman villa, repaired a castle, wrote a book, and was an accomplished botanist and artist?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Mary Amdur]]''' gassed her own [[guinea pig]]s to prove that breathing [[sulphuric acid]] was dangerous?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that French economist '''[[Laurence Tubiana]]''', appointed Special Ambassador to the [[COP21]] climate change meeting in Paris, managed the negotiations that led to a new agreement signed by 195 countries?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that haematologist '''[[Lucy Meredith Bryce]]''' was the director of the first blood transfusion service in Australia?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that, while studying interfacial phenomena, '''[[Heather C. Allen]]''' discovered that [[halide]]s such as [[bromide]] are located close to the surface of water?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that Austrian physician '''[[Gisela Januszewska]]''', famed for her work among [[Bosnian Muslim]] women and highly decorated for her World War I service, died in the [[Theresienstadt concentration camp]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Victoria Bricker]]''' has studied the languages, astronomy, and ethnobotany of the [[Maya civilization|Maya]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Edith Irby Jones|Edith Irby]]''' made national news when she was accepted in 1948 as the first [[African American]] medical student in the [[Southern United States]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Christian Ramsay]]''' (pictured), honorary member of the [[Botanical Society of Edinburgh]], was so dedicated to [[botany]] that she died with a list of plants in her hand?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that, although '''[[Elizabeth Gray (fossil collector)|Elizabeth Gray]]''' died, her family's tradition of collecting fossils at [[Girvan]] lasted for 86 years?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that cell biologist '''[[Margaret Reed Lewis]]''' may have been the first person to successfully grow mammalian tissue ''[[in vitro]]''?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the British orthopaedic surgeon '''[[Samantha Tross]]''' made long jumps during her education?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that of the more than 3,000 [[Midwife|midwives]] working in the state of [[Florida]] in the early 1920s, '''[[Victoria Joyce Ely]]''' was the only one who was trained and licensed?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[gastroenterology|gastroenterologist]] '''[[Sara Murray Jordan]]''' co-wrote a cookbook titled ''Good Food for Bad Stomachs''?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[Physical therapy|physiotherapist]] '''[[Janet Carr]]''' specialised in [[stroke recovery|rehabilitation after stroke]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that while working on her graduate degree in chemistry, '''[[Emīlija Gudriniece]]''' won the Latvian Women's Motorcycle Championship in 1949, and then won it again in 1953?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Ruth Schmidt]]''', an employee of the [[United States Geological Survey]], was questioned in two [[McCarthyism|McCarthyist]] hearings because of her association with a bookstore?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[Cell biology|molecular cell biologist]] '''[[Mónica Bettencourt-Dias]]''' also studied scientific communication, the way scientists communicate with the public?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that conservationist '''[[Rose Gaffney]]''', known as "The Belle of Bodega Bay," helped halt the construction of a nuclear power plant in [[Bodega Bay, California]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Elisa Oricchio]]''' identified that the [[ephrin receptor]] [[EPHA7|EphA7]] plays a role in tumor development of [[follicular lymphoma]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Doris Calloway]]''' studied farts, space food, and broccoli?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that at 101 years old, '''[[Esther Somerfeld-Ziskind]]''' was still attending patients at Los Angeles Children's Hospital?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that collaboration between botanists '''[[Elinor Francis Vallentin]]''' and [[Arthur Disbrowe Cotton|A.D. Cotton]] resulted in the first comprehensive study of [[cryptogam]]s from the [[Falkland Islands]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Anne Beloff-Chain]]''' founded the Department of Biochemistry at the [[University of Buckingham]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that astrophysicist '''[[Naomi McClure-Griffiths]]''' discovered a new [[spiral arm]] in the [[Milky Way]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[May Owen]]''' discovered that the talcum powder used on surgical gloves caused infection and [[Peritoneum|peritoneal]] scarring?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Lidija Liepiņa]]''' worked with a team of other scientists in a mobile laboratory in a train boxcar, testing filters to create Russia's first functional [[gas mask]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Catherine Feuillet]]''' led a team to successfully map the largest [[wheat]] chromosome, 3B?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that Japanese physicist '''[[Toshiko Yuasa]]''' studied in Paris under [[Frédéric Joliot-Curie]] and developed her own beta-ray [[spectrometer]] in Berlin?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Vera Faddeeva]]'''{{`s}} 1950 book ''Computational methods of linear algebra'' was one of the first publications in that [[Linear algebra|field of mathematics]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Una Ryan]]''' and '''[[Una M. Ryan|Una Ryan]]''' both emigrated from their countries, study infectious disease, and were honored with the [[Order of the British Empire]] and [[Prime Minister's Prizes for Science]], respectively?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Marguerite Lehr]]''' conducted a televised lecture course on mathematics in the 1950s?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Louise Hay (mathematician)|Louise Hay]]''' was the only woman to direct a math department at [[University of Illinois at Chicago|a major research university]] in her era?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[biochemist]] '''[[Kathryn Ferguson Fink]]''' developed [[radiolabeling]] techniques that were used to study the success of [[chemotherapy]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Katherine Belov]]''' discovered that the [[contagious cancer]] decimating the [[Tasmanian devil]] spreads due to lack of genetic diversity?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that Singaporean [[Fungus|fungi]] expert '''[[Gloria Lim]]''' was once summoned by her country's [[Ministry of Defence (Singapore)|Ministry of Defence]] when their storage area developed [[mold]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Diana Marcela Bolaños Rodriguez]]''' studies marine [[Platyhelminths|flatworms]] to learn about their [[Regeneration (biology)|regenerative]] abilities?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Charlotte Sahl-Madsen]]''' introduced [[multiple intelligences]] into the [[Universe (Danish amusement park)|Universe]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that after '''[[Cecilia Bouzat]]''' was given a [[L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science|L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science]] she was received by the President of Argentina?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Catherine A. Lozupone]]''' created the [[UniFrac]] algorithm, which has allowed researchers to plot the relationships between [[Microbiota|microbial communities]] in the human [[Gut (anatomy)|gut]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Andrea Ablasser]]''' discovered a molecule that warns nearby cells when it encounters a pathogen?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that American mechanical engineer '''[[Alice Agogino]]''' won the NSF's [[Presidential Young Investigator Award]] in 1985?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Vera Fedorovna Gaze]]''', who discovered around 150 [[emission nebulae]], had [[2388 Gase|a minor planet]] and [[List of craters on Venus|a crater on Venus]] named for her?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Stephanie Burns]]''', an [[organosilicon]] chemist, served as President and CEO of [[Dow Corning]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Yueh-Lin Loo]]''' invented [[nanotransfer printing]], a technique that allows electrical circuits to be printed onto plastic surfaces?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that German [[Astrophysics|astrophysicist]] '''[[Hanna von Hoerner]]''' designed the cosmic dust analyser onboard ''[[Rosetta (spacecraft)|Rosetta]]''?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Dorothea Leighton]]''' is one of the founders of the field of [[medical anthropology]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Patricia Numann]]''' founded the [[Association of Women Surgeons]], chaired the [[American Board of Surgery]], and was president of the [[American College of Surgeons]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the [[Armitt Library]] is named for the polyglot '''[[Mary Louisa Armitt]]'''?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Idelisa Bonnelly]]''' pushed for the first [[humpback whale]] sanctuary to be established and was inducted into the [[Global 500 Roll of Honour]] of [[United Nations Environment Programme|UNEP]] for her defense of the environment?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Tebello Nyokong]]''' is helping to pioneer a safer method of cancer detection and therapy that does not have the harmful side effects of chemotherapy?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Omowunmi Sadik]]''' has developed highly sensitive microelectrode biosensors that can detect [[Explosive material|explosives]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Frances Gertrude McGill]]''', a Canadian forensic pathologist, was referred to as the "Sherlock Holmes of Saskatchewan"?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that after '''[[Olga Fedchenko]]'''{{`s}} husband died on [[Mont Blanc]] in 1873, she was asked to continue their work by Moscow's [[Society of Devotees of Natural Science, Anthropology, and Ethnography|Society of Natural Scientists]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[bacteriologist]] '''[[Maria von Linden]]''' received a patent for her discovery that copper salts could be used as a disinfectant?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Ida Shepard Oldroyd]]''' curated the world's second largest collection of [[mollusk shell]]s?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Tsuruko Haraguchi]]''', the first Japanese woman to receive a PhD, helped establish an experimental psychology laboratory at [[Japan Women's University]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that towards the end of her life, biologist '''[[Mary Cynthia Dickerson]]''' had hallucinations of the Arctic explorer [[Vilhjalmur Stefansson]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that Soviet physician '''[[Vera Lebedeva]]''' instituted a successful program to reduce [[infant mortality]] in her country?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the [[Celsiella]], a type of [[glass frog]], was named after '''[[Josefa Celsa Señaris]]'''?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Marie Lebour]]''' studied the life cycles of marine animals until she was 88?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that biologist '''[[Kono Yasui]]''' was only allowed to study outside of Japan if she listed "home economics research" alongside "scientific research" on her application and agreed not to marry?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Ragnhild Sundby]]'''{{`s}} doctoral thesis concluded that fluctuations of [[Phyllocnistis labyrinthella|miner moth]] populations were mainly caused by parasitic wasps?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that German biochemist '''[[Ulrike Beisiegel]]''' is the first woman to serve as president of the [[University of Göttingen]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that botanist and ecologist '''[[Edith Clements]]''' illustrated most of her own books?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Michiyo Tsujimura]]'''{{`s}} discovery of vitamin C in green tea contributed to an increase in tea exports to America?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[theoretical physicist]] '''[[Mariangela Lisanti]]''' was named on ''[[MIT Technology Review]]''{{`s}} [[TR35]] list of innovators when she was 18 years old?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[neuroscientist]] '''[[Kay Tye]]''' has used light to identify connections in the brain that are linked to anxiety?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Grace Medes]]''' discovered the human [[metabolic disorder]] of [[Type I tyrosinemia|tyrosinemia]] in 1932?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that Canadian [[Oncology|oncologist]] '''[[Kathleen I. Pritchard]]''' was one of the most cited researchers in the world in 2014 and 2015?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Grace Oladunni Taylor]]''' was the first African to win the [[L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science|L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science]] and the second woman inducted into the [[Nigerian Academy of Science]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Eva-Maria Neher]]''', a German scientist in [[biochemistry]] and [[microbiology]] and founder of Göttingen Xlab, is married to [[Erwin Neher]], a [[Nobel laureate]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Myeong-Hee Yu]]''' won a [[L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science|L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science]] in 1998 for her work on the protein [[alpha-1 antitrypsin]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the [[seaweed]] expert '''[[Mary Philadelphia Merrifield]]''' learnt Swedish so she could correspond with the naturalist [[Jacob Georg Agardh]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that biologist '''[[Marvalee Wake]]''', an expert on [[caecilian]]s, is married to an expert on [[salamander]]s?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the [[glaciologist]] '''[[Moira Dunbar]]''' is the only female recipient of the [[Royal Canadian Geographical Society]]'s [[Massey Medal]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[1999 U.S. Figure Skating Championships#Novice results#Ice dancing|medal-winning]] ice dancer '''[[Kakani Katija Young]]''' is a bioengineer studying the contribution of sea creatures to [[tidal movement]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the Japanese chemist '''[[Chika Kuroda]]''' helped to create an [[antihypertensive drug]] from an onion skin?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Agathe L. van Beverwijk]]''' left her research role at the Amsterdam Cancer Institute because she refused to experiment on animals?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Kathrin Barboza Marquez]]''' rediscovered [[Tomes's sword-nosed bat|a bat]] in Bolivia which had been thought to be extinct in the country?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Alice Alldredge]]''', an expert on [[marine snow]], has been in the top 0.1% of the [[Web of Science]]'s highly cited researchers list since 2003?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that by 1975, the year [[Marcy Cottrell Houle]]'s book '''''[[Wings for My Flight]]''''' documents, only 324 pairs of [[peregrine falcon]]s resided in the United States?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Vida Latham]]''' advocated for women in [[dentistry]] and [[medicine]] throughout her career in both fields?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Cecile Hoover Edwards]]''', an expert on African-American nutrition, sought to identify low-cost foods with an optimal [[amino acid]] composition?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that after mathematician '''[[Hinke Osinga]]''' studied [[invariant manifold]]s in her doctoral dissertation, she made a [[crochet]] model of one?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that a street in [[Rome]] is named after female Italian mathematician '''[[Pia Nalli]]'''?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Loretta Marron]]''' became known as "the Jelly Bean Lady" after using [[jelly bean]]s to test bogus health products?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Berta Bobath]]''' and her husband, who jointly won an award for working with people with disabilities, took an overdose together?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[University of California, San Diego|UCSD]] [[Biophysics|biophysicist]] '''[[Rommie Amaro]]''' co-mentored a teen who won the 2013 [[Siemens Competition]], the 2013 [[Google Science Fair]], and the 2014 [[Intel Science Talent Search]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that chemist and science diplomat '''[[Nancy B. Jackson]]''' was the first implementer of the [[United States Department of State|U.S. State Department]]'s Chemical Security Engagement Program?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[genetics]] researcher and [[MIT]] professor emeritus '''[[Mary-Lou Pardue]]''' once declined a PhD and convinced her department to give her a master's degree instead?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[polymath]] '''[[Lina Eckenstein]]''' saw a link between the tomb of Pharaoh [[Seti I]] and the [[Cock Robin|death of Cock Robin]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Catherine T. Hunt]]''', the 2007 president of the [[American Chemical Society]], won the society's first election to use Internet voting?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[computer scientist]] '''[[Hilary Kahn]]''' advised Ph.D. students as a professor at the [[University of Manchester]] but never got a Ph.D. herself?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that Canadian tech entrepreneur '''[[Suhayya Abu-Hakima]]''', who has founded two startups and holds 30 international patents, received a [[Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal]] in 2012?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[astrobiology|astrobiologist]] and [[freediver]] '''[[Nathalie Cabrol]]''' selected the landing site for the Mars rover ''[[Spirit (rover)|Spirit]]''?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Susan Bailey]]''', a British specialist in child psychiatry, appeared as an [[expert witness]] in the [[Murder of James Bulger|James Bulger murder trial]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Toni von Langsdorff]]''' was inspired to become a physician because of [[Pott disease|spinal tuberculosis]], but was almost foiled by an [[Ophthalmology|ophthalmologist]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Sarah Spiegel (scientist)|Sarah Spiegel]]''' has received continuous funding for nearly 20 years from the [[National Institutes of Health]] to research the [[Sphingosine-1-phosphate|S1P molecule]], which she discovered?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Carden Wallace]]''' was in the team that discovered mass spawning on the [[Great Barrier Reef]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that a biography of the much-travelled Professor '''[[Josephine Tilden]]''' was titled "Algae of Acrimony"?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Lucille Farrier Stickel]]''' ''(pictured)'' was the first woman to become director of a United States national research laboratory?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Grace Eldering]]''', along with [[Pearl Kendrick]], developed the first successful [[pertussis]] [[vaccine]] and large-scale [[Randomized controlled trial|controlled trial]] for it?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Elena Cattaneo]]''' "show[ed] the influence that individual scientists can have in fighting anti-science forces"?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the [[Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology|Anita Borg Institute]] gave [[Visual impairment|blind]] computer scientist '''[[Chieko Asakawa]]''' their [[Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Awards|Women of Vision Award]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the [[computer scientist]] '''[[Jean Bacon]]''' became the first woman on the faculty of the Computer Laboratory at the [[University of Cambridge]] in 1985?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Molly Shoichet]]''' is a fellow of all three Canadian National Academies, the only person to hold this distinction?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Jeanne Lampl-de Groot]]''', a Dutch psychiatrist and protégée of [[Sigmund Freud]], fled the Nazis twice?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Lucie Randoin]]''' was made a member of the [[Legion of Honour]] in 1958?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Ethel Bellamy|an English computer]]''' was awarded a silver medal by the Vatican?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[cell biologist]] '''[[Zena Werb]]''' changed her undergraduate major from [[geophysics]] to [[biochemistry]] after being told there was no accommodation for women at a [[Field research|field site]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Chien-Shiung Wu]]''' conducted the [[Wu experiment]], which contradicted the hypothetical [[Parity (physics)#Parity violation|law of conservation of parity]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Lixia Zhang]]''' coined the term "[[middlebox]]"?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[endocrinology|endocrinologist]] '''[[Neena Schwartz]]''' had a 50-year career in scientific research, but only [[coming out|came out]] as [[lesbian]] after she retired?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the [[immunology]] professor '''[[Mary Collins (immunologist)|Mary Collins]]''' studies ways to use [[genetic engineering|genetically engineered]] [[HIV]] as a [[vaccine]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[evolutionary biology|evolutionary biologist]] '''[[Scott V. Edwards|Scott Edwards]]''' and [[social psychology|social psychologist]] '''[[Jennifer Richeson]]''' were the only two black scientists elected to the [[National Academy of Sciences|United States National Academy of Sciences]] in 2015?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Laura Forster]]''' was the first Australian woman doctor to volunteer her services as a medic in Belgium during World War I?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin]]''' was the first female full professor of mathematics in France?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that Lady '''[[Katherine Sophia Kane]]''' was the first woman to be elected to the [[Botanical Society of Scotland|Botanical Society of Edinburgh]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Nina Starr Braunwald]]''' designed, fabricated and implanted the first successful artificial [[Mitral valve|mitral]] [[Valve replacement|heart valve replacement]] in a human?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Abbie Lathrop]]'''{{`s}} mouse number 57 was the origin of the [[C57BL/6|C57BL/6 laboratory mouse]] ''(pictured)''?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Elda Emma Anderson]]''' prepared the first sample of pure [[uranium-235]] at the Manhattan Project's [[Los Alamos Laboratory]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Qian Xiuling]]''' ''(pictured)'' interceded with the German General [[Alexander von Falkenhausen |Falkenhausen]] to save nearly a hundred Belgians from execution?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Laurel van der Wal]]'''{{mdashb}}rocket scientist, cop, model, showgirl, art teacher, aircraft mechanic, switchman, casino shill{{mdashb}}was "impatient with people who do not make full use of all their capabilities"?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Sharon Anderson]]''' was the first woman to serve as president of the [[American Society of Nephrology]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Catherine Corrigan|Cari Corrigan]]''' was one of the first to analyze a new [[nakhlite]] from Mars?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that German-American economist '''[[Edith Hirsch (economist)|Edith Hirsch]]''' met her husband at the childhood home of [[Elsa Einstein|Albert Einstein's wife]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the asteroid [[3241 Yeshuhua]] is named after '''[[Ye Shuhua|a woman astronomer]]'''?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Judith Vaitukaitis]]''' developed the chemical technique for the first home pregnancy test after trying to use it to diagnose cancer?
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*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Alice H. Lichtenstein]]''' is the lead author of the [[American Heart Association]]'s Diet and Lifestyle Recommendations?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the psychologist '''[[May Smith (psychologist)|May Smith]]''' spent three years studying the effects of fatigue on herself?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that during World War II, '''[[Genevieve Grotjan Feinstein]]''' ''(pictured)'' made "one of the greatest achievements in the history of U.S. codebreaking"?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Angella D. Ferguson]]''' discovered that African-American infants learned to sit and stand at a younger age than European-American babies?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that marine biologist '''[[Anne Rudloe]]''' of the [[Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratory]] was also a [[Zen|Zen Buddhist]] Abbot?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Maria Elizabetha Jacson]]''' was wary of offending her society's conventions by writing about sexual classification?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the lack of minorities and women in '''[[Shirley M. Malcom]]'''{{`s}} college classes later inspired her to manage the [[National Science Foundation]]'s Minority Institutions Science Improvement Program?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Naomi Sager]]''' helped develop the first computer program to parse English?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the Canadian-born [[psychiatrist]] '''[[Lydia Giberson]]''' was the first woman assistant vice president of the [[MetLife|Metropolitan Life Insurance Company]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[cardiologist]] and [[Gambia]]n native '''[[Hannah Valantine]]''' is the Chief Officer for Scientific Workforce Diversity at the United States [[National Institutes of Health]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Dagmar Hülsenberg]]''', with a doctorate in both [[Management accounting|cost accounting]] and [[materials science]], was the youngest professor in the [[German Democratic Republic]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Constance Ellis]]''' was the first woman to receive a [[Doctor of Medicine|medical degree]] from the [[University of Melbourne]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that if not for her high scores in high school, '''[[Xuemei Chen]]''' might not have been able to study [[plant physiology]] at [[Peking University]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Margaret Allen]]''' was the first woman to perform a [[heart transplant]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the [[China|Chinese]] physicist '''[[He Zehui]]''' ''(pictured)'' researched [[nuclear physics]] in [[Heidelberg]] during World War II?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Alice Perry]]''' was the first woman to graduate as an engineer in Ireland and the United Kingdom?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Sinah Estelle Kelley]]''' helped mass-produce [[penicillin]] for the [[U. S. Department of Agriculture]] following the [[Second World War]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Myra Adele Logan]]''' was the first woman to perform open heart surgery?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Kimberly Bryant (technologist)|Kimberly Bryant]]''' founded [[Black Girls Code]], an organization that aims to teach one million African-American girls to [[Computer code|code]] by 2040?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Eliza Ann Grier]]''' ''(pictured)'', an emancipated slave, was the first African-American woman licensed to practice medicine in the state of [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the first woman elected to the Geological Society of America, '''[[Mary Emilie Holmes]]''', was also one of the cofounders of a historically black college?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Frances Ames]]''' was the first woman to receive a Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Cape Town?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the engineer '''[[Willie Hobbs Moore]]''', credited with expanding Japanese manufacturing practices at [[Ford Motor Company]], was the first African-American woman to receive a PhD in physics?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Aleen Cust]]''' ''(pictured)'' was the first female vet recognised by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons in Ireland and the United Kingdom?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[immunologist]] '''[[Mary Loveless]]''' collected and prepared some 30,000 insects to use for her research into insect venom allergies?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that in the 1960s, '''[[Kamal Ranadive]]''' established India's first [[tissue culture]] research laboratory at the Indian Cancer Research Centre in [[Mumbai]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Huda Zoghbi]]''' ''(pictured)'', the physician–scientist who identified the gene that causes [[Rett syndrome]], originally wanted to study literature?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[Columbia University]] professor '''[[Deborah Mowshowitz]]''' teaches introductory biology by having students solve famous historical problems?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the scientist '''[[Lisa-Ann Gershwin]]''', who has discovered 200 species of [[jellyfish]], is related to [[George Gershwin]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that when '''[[Mary Brodrick]]''' ''(pictured)'' applied to study [[Egyptology]] at the [[Sorbonne]] in Paris, she was told, "But we do not take little girls here"?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the book accompanying '''[[Computer Engineer Barbie]]''' was withdrawn in 2014 after protests that it depicts Barbie as incompetent with computers?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that Dr. '''[[Mary Cannon]]'''{{`s}} research group found that more than one-fifth of Irish 11- to 13-year-olds have experienced "[[auditory hallucinations]]"?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[James Colliander]], '''[[Gigliola Staffilani]]''', and [[Terence Tao]] are part of a collaborative group of mathematicians called the I-team?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that mathematician '''[[Linda Preiss Rothschild]]''' settled for graduate study at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]] after [[Princeton University|Princeton]] rejected her for being female?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Elaine Surick Oran]]'''{{`s}} techniques for simulating [[Fluid dynamics|dynamic fluid flows]] have been applied to phenomena as varied as the movements of [[fish]] and the explosions of [[supernovae]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Ioana Dumitriu]]''' began taking graduate mathematics courses as a college freshman, and became the first female [[Putnam Fellow]] the following year?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Iota Sigma Pi]]'''{{`s}} National Honorary Member award has gone to chemists [[Marie Curie]], [[Gerty Cori]], and [[Dorothy Hodgkin]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that British botanist '''[[Dorothea Pertz]]''' also trained as a masseuse?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that Canadian botanist, combat ambulance driver, and political activist '''[[Julia Wilmotte Henshaw]]''' ''(pictured)'' urged women voters to support conscription, yet was also [[Anti-suffragism|anti-suffrage]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the [[Presidency of Bill Clinton|Clinton administration]] abandoned plans to nominate '''[[Alicia Munnell]]''' to the [[Federal Reserve Board of Governors]] following protest by ten [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] [[United States Senate|Senators]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Maude Delap]]''' was the first person to breed [[jellyfish]] in captivity?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Matilda Cullen Knowles]]''' is considered the founder of modern studies of Irish [[lichen]]s?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Elsie Dalyell]]''' was made an [[Officer of the Order of the British Empire]] after travelling across Europe with the [[Royal Army Medical Corps]] to provide aid during World War I?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that while serving as chair of the [[United States Atomic Energy Commission|US Atomic Energy Commission]], '''[[Dixy Lee Ray]]''' was chauffeured to and from her office along with her [[Scottish deerhound]] and [[miniature poodle]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that in 1920 '''[[Louise Pearce]]''' tested a cure for the fatal epidemic of [[African trypanosomiasis|African sleeping sickness]] in the [[Belgian Congo]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[MacArthur Fellow]] '''[[Tami Bond]]''', known for her study of [[black carbon]], became interested in engineering after her car broke down?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Hoylande Young]]''' was the first woman division head at the [[Argonne National Laboratory]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the [[National Council of Women of Australia]] made '''[[Margaret Windeyer]]''' an honorary life president in 1918, though she had never been a member of the council's executive board?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Bertha Lamme Feicht]]''' was both the first woman to ever receive a degree in engineering from [[Ohio State University]] and to be employed by [[Westinghouse Electric (1886)|Westinghouse Electric]] as an engineer?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the popular science writers '''[[Elizabeth and Mary Kirby]]''' [[Crowdsourcing|crowdsourced]] their first joint book in 1848?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Susan Leeman]]''' was the first woman elected to the [[National Academy of Sciences]] in physiology and pharmacology?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that English biochemist '''[[Ida Maclean]]''' was the first woman on staff at the [[Victoria University of Manchester|Manchester University]] chemistry department, and the first to be admitted to the [[Chemical Society|London Chemical Society]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Frances McConnell-Mills]]'''{{`}} father, a doctor, refused to pay for her medical school tuition because he thought medicine was "too hard a life for a woman"?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that quirky dogs and plural wugs helped '''[[Jean Berko Gleason]]''' show that young children extract linguistic rules from what they hear, rather than just memorizing words?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Ivy Parker]]''' was the first woman to receive a [[PhD]] in chemistry from the [[University of Texas]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Nancy M. Hill]]''', one of the first women [[physician]]s in the United States, founded a society to provide shelter and support for unwed mothers and their babies in [[Dubuque, Iowa]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Janet Greig]]''' and her sister '''[[Jane Stocks Greig|Jane]]''', both doctors, were founding members of [[Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne|Melbourne's Queen Victoria Hospital]] and inductees of the [[Victorian Honour Roll of Women]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[bacteriologist]] '''[[Sara Branham Matthews]]''' was considered to be one of the "grand ladies of microbiology"?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Justina Ford]]''' ''(pictured)'' was the only [[African American]] woman to be [[medical license|licensed]] as a physician in [[Denver]] for nearly 50 years?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Cassandra Pickett Durham]]''' was the first woman to earn a medical degree in the U.S. state of [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that in the last ten years, '''[[Lisa Kewley]]''' has won a Hubble postdoctoral fellowship, the [[Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy|Annie J. Cannon Award]], the [[Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy|Newton Lacy Pierce Prize]], and been elected Fellow of the [[Australian Academy of Science]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that astronomer '''[[Adelaide Ames]]''' joined the [[Harvard College Observatory]] as a research assistant because she could not find any jobs in journalism?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that biology teacher '''[[Blanche Evans Dean]]''' wrote several books about Alabama's [[natural history]] after becoming frustrated with the lack of books on the subject?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Liebe Sokol Diamond]]''', who was born without several fingers, became an [[orthopedic surgeon]] specializing in children's hand deformities?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[marine zoologist]] '''[[Daphne Gail Fautin]]''', described as the world authority on [[sea anemones]] ''(pictured)'', lives and works in landlocked [[Lawrence, Kansas]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that chemist '''[[Madeleine M. Joullié]]''' developed [[1,3-Indandione|indanediones]], used by the [[United States Secret Service|U.S. Secret Service]] to detect [[fingerprint]]s?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Doris Huestis Speirs]]''', after whom an annual prize bestowed by the [[Society of Canadian Ornithologists]] is named, exhibited her paintings with the [[Group of Seven (artists)|Group of Seven]] and the [[Canadian Group of Painters]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Vera Bogdanovskaia]]''' ''(pictured)'' was killed in 1896 while trying to make [[Methylidynephosphane|H-C≡P]], a chemical not successfully synthesized until 1961?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[E. Gail de Planque]]''' was the first woman and first [[health physicist]] to become a Commissioner at the US [[Nuclear Regulatory Commission]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Irene Greif]]''' is a founder of [[computer-supported cooperative work]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that Dr. '''[[Edith Claypole]]''' died of [[typhoid]] while working on immunizations for [[WWI]] troops, even though she had been immunized herself?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Ada Hitchins]]'''{{`s}} measurements of [[atomic mass]] from [[uranium]] ores ''(pictured)'' provided the first experimental evidence for the existence of [[isotope]]s?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that after working on the [[Manhattan Project]], '''[[Myrtle Bachelder]]''' went on to develop methods for the purification of the rare elements [[tellurium]] and [[indium]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that biochemist '''[[Sofia Simmonds]]''', despite her scientific accomplishments, was not promoted to [[full professor]] at [[Yale University|Yale]] until nearly 30 years after she started there?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Emily Lakdawalla]]''' of [[The Planetary Society]] has identified places where Martian [[unmanned aerial vehicle|drones]] can land on Earth?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[June Lascelles]]''' was an Australian [[microbiologist]] who taught and researched into bacteria at [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] and [[UCLA]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that between animal experiments, research physiologist '''[[Maria Carmela Lico]]''' ''(pictured)'' read novels by Argentinian writer [[Julio Cortázar]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Catherine Clarke Fenselau]]''' was the first trained [[Mass spectrometry|mass spectrometrist]] on the faculty of an American medical school?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Adeyinka Gladys Falusi]]''' of [[Nigeria]] is a [[L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science|L'Oréal-UNESCO]] laureate for her [[molecular genetics]] research into hereditary blood disorders such as [[sickle-cell disease]] and [[alpha-thalassemia]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that chemist '''[[Pauline Gracia Beery Mack]]''' was the first woman to win the [[Silver Snoopy award]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Mary Lura Sherrill]]''' is one of three women from the same research group who have independently won the [[Garvan-Olin Medal|Garvan Medal]] for women in chemistry?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Julie Makani]]''' won the [[Royal Society Pfizer Award]] for her research into [[sickle cell disease]] in [[Tanzania]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Beryl Platt, Baroness Platt of Writtle|Beryl Platt]]''' helped design and test three WWII fighter planes: the [[Hawker Hurricane|Hurricane]], the [[Hawker Typhoon|Typhoon]], and the [[Hawker Tempest|Tempest V]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that Professor '''[[Karimat El-Sayed]]''' learnt how to balance her scientific ambitions and her family life from [[Kathleen Lonsdale]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[pathologist]] '''[[Frieda Robscheit-Robbins]]''' did not share her [[George Whipple|male research partner]]'s 1934 [[Nobel Prize]], but he shared the prize money with her?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Akiko Kobayashi (chemist)|Akiko Kobayashi]]''' got the [[L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science|L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science]] for creating a material that is both organic and metallic?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Leila Schneps]]''' ''(pictured)'', mathematician, researcher, and author of ''Math on Trial'' also writes mathematically-themed murder mysteries under the pen-name Catherine Shaw?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Marie Meurdrac]]'''{{`s}} 1656 book on ''Useful and Easy Chemistry, for the Benefit of Ladies'' had ten editions in three languages?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that before it was added to the [[National Register of Historic Places]], '''[[Edith Marion Patch]]'''{{`s}} house nearly went up in flames?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Edith Humphrey]]''' is thought to be the first British woman to obtain a doctorate in chemistry, in 1901?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Vivian Wing-Wah Yam]]''' was the youngest member to be elected to the [[Chinese Academy of Sciences]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Nalini Anantharaman]]''' won a [[Mathematical Physics]] prize for her work on [[quantum chaos]], [[Schrödinger equation]]s and quantum unique [[ergodicity]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that cell biologist '''[[Rachael Dunlop]]''' and her colleagues discovered how an amino acid produced by blue-green algae might trigger the onset of [[Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis|ALS]] (Lou Gehrig's disease)?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Jennie Patrick]]''', a woman who was told she did not belong at the [[University of California, Berkeley|University in Berkeley]] in the 1970s, received the Outstanding Women in Science and Engineering Award in 1980?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Josephine Silone Yates]]''' ''(pictured)'' was the first black woman to head a college science department in the United States?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Vivienne Cassie Cooper]]''' is [[New Zealand]]'s "leading expert" on the microscopic algae [[diatom]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that collections left by naturalists '''[[Frederick Lukis]]''' and his daughter '''[[Louisa Collings|Louisa]]''', wife of [[Sark]]'s feudal ruler '''[[William Thomas Collings]]''', are the most significant natural history collections displayed by the museums of [[Guernsey]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[YinzCam]]''', a Pittsburgh-based company providing official [[mobile app]]s for more than 30 professional sports franchises, was created by [[Carnegie Mellon University]] Professor '''[[Priya Narasimhan]]'''?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[anthropologist]] '''[[Nina Jablonski]]''' was inspired to study science by a [[National Geographic Channel|National Geographic]] program on [[palaeontologist]] [[Louis Leakey]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that American astronomer '''[[Pamela L. Gay]]''' has directed [[List of citizen science projects|citizen science projects]] enabling people to help map the [[Lunar surface|surface of the Moon]] through an online mapping interface?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that former Chilean Environment Minister '''[[Adriana Hoffmann]]''' identified 106 new species of cacti?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Janice Eberly]]''' was the first female National President of [[Future Farmers of America]] and then Chief Economist for the [[U.S. Treasury Department]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Estelle Ramey]]'''{{`s}} name was formalized so that she could go to school?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Judith Pipher]]''' has been referred to as the "mother of [[infrared astronomy]]"?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Mary Hamilton Swindler]]''' was the first woman editor-in-chief of the ''[[American Journal of Archaeology]]'' (1932–46) since its inception in 1885?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Emily Willingham]]''', a biologist from Texas, was called "one of the sharpest science writers in the blogosphere" by [[Steve Silberman]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that of 143 gorillas studied by '''[[Magdalena Bermejo]]''' in October 2002, only 13 were still alive four months later?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Susan Gerbi]]''' worked with [[Joseph Gall]] to develop [[in situ hybridization|''in situ'' hybridization]] for her Ph.D. research?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Nora Lilian Alcock]]''' was the Scottish government's first [[plant pathology|plant pathologist]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that British physiologist '''[[Mabel Purefoy FitzGerald]]''' attended [[Oxford University|Oxford]] before women were granted degrees and 75 years later received an honorary [[Master's degree|master's]] when she was 100 years old?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Bertha Parker Pallan]]''' ''(pictured)'' was one of the first female Native American archaeologists?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that female physicist '''[[Elizabeth Laird (physicist)|Elizabeth Laird]]''' came out of retirement during WWII to research radar?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Anna Baetjer]]''' discovered the link between [[chromium]] exposure and cancer?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that mathematician '''[[Grace Bates]]''' was the only woman allowed to study [[differential equation]]s in her final year at college?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the Ph.D dissertation of taphonomist '''[[Kay Behrensmeyer]]''' suggested that [[sauropod]]s were terrestrial?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that photographer '''[[Cecilia Glaisher]]''' compiled an illustrated book of ferns during the [[Victorian fern craze]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that pioneering petrographer '''[[Eleanora Knopf]]''' was the daughter of General [[Tasker H. Bliss]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that medical illustrator '''[[Audrey Arnott]]''' passed on techniques she learned from [[Max Brödel]] to other British illustrators?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that macromolecular crystallographer '''[[Martha L. Ludwig]]''' solved the first [[flavoprotein]] structure?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that ophthalmologist '''[[Antoinette Pirie]]''' investigated the effect of [[mustard gas]] on the [[cornea]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that mathematician '''[[Sibyl M. Rock]]''' ''(pictured)'' helped develop both [[Analog computer|analog]] and [[Digital computer|digital]] computers for use in [[Mass spectrometry|mass spectrometry]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the first modern [[cochlear implant]] was developed by Austrian electrical engineer '''[[Ingeborg Hochmair]]'''?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the first person to isolate Vitamin E, '''[[Gladys Anderson Emerson]]''', taught history before starting her career in biochemistry?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Blanche Wheeler Williams]]''' and [[Harriet Boyd Hawes]] discovered the ancient [[Minoan civilization|Minoan]] complex at [[Gournia]] in 1901?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Gloria Long Anderson]]''', a chemist and school administrator, was appointed by [[President Richard Nixon]] to serve on the [[Corporation for Public Broadcasting]]'s board?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[genetics|geneticist]] '''[[Florence Margaret Durham]]''' bred 6,983 guinea pigs for her study of whether daily doses of alcohol had hereditary effects?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Diane Harper]]''', who formerly worked on the clinical trials of the [[HPV vaccine]], has since questioned the vaccine's safety and efficacy?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Fatimata Seye Sylla]]''' has spearheaded efforts to get [[Senegal]]ese women and children Internet access?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Elizabeth Press]]''' worked with [[Rodney Porter]] for 25 years, contributing significantly to his 1972 [[Nobel Prize]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the first female professor at Glasgow University, '''[[Delphine Parrott]]''', was especially good at vivisecting mice?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[cryobiologist]] '''[[Audrey Smith]]'''{{`s}} scientific papers include "A Simple Method for Reanimating Ice-cold Rats and Mice" and "Resuscitation of Hamsters after Supercooling or Partial Crystallization"?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the subjects of '''[[Marjorie Senechal]]'''{{`s}} books include [[quasicrystal]]s, [[Albania]], and [[silk]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Jean Swank]]''' ''(pictured)'', who studied [[black hole]]s and [[neutron star]]s, was awarded the [[NASA Distinguished Service Medal]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that biochemist '''[[Nancy T. Chang|Nancy Chang]]''' ''(pictured)'' became interested in biology after reading James Watson's book on the discovery of the double helix?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Mary Anne Whitby]]''', who had reintroduced [[sericulture]] to England in the 1830s, carried out selective breeding experiments on her silkworms which were published by [[Charles Darwin|Darwin]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that Kuwaiti electrochemist '''[[Faiza Al-Kharafi]]''' was the first woman to head a major university in the [[Middle East]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[paleobotanist]] '''[[Shya Chitaley]]''' named an extinct plant species for [[Cleveland]]{{'}}s bicentennial and also had an extinct plant species named for her?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that ''' [[Alice Ball]]''' developed an injectable medicine that was the most effective treatment of [[leprosy]] before the 1940s?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that geologist '''[[Sharon A. Hill]]''' has investigated and reported on recent claims about [[Bigfoot#Bigfoot_DNA_claim|Bigfoot DNA evidence]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that nuclear physicist '''[[Katharine Way]]''' co-edited a 1946 bestseller which included essays by [[Niels Bohr]], [[Albert Einstein]] and [[Robert Oppenheimer]], and sold over 100,000 copies?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Leona Woods]]''' was the only woman present when the [[Chicago Pile-1|world's first nuclear reactor]] went critical?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Lesley Yellowlees]]''' is the first female president of the [[Royal Society of Chemistry]] and is the subject of two portraits in the [[National Portrait Gallery, London|National Portrait Gallery]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that astrophysicist '''[[Joan Feynman]]''' ''(pictured)'', sister of noted physicist [[Richard Feynman]], discovered that [[Aurora_(astronomy)|auroras]] are caused by the [[solar wind]]'s magnetic field interacting with Earth's [[magnetosphere]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Margaret C. Snyder|Margaret Snyder]]''' was the first director of the [[United Nations Development Fund for Women]] (UNIFEM)?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the research of '''[[Gertrude Van Wagenen]]''' ''(pictured)'' and [[John McLean Morris]] led to the development of the [[emergency contraception|morning-after pill]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that Norwegian female academic pioneers from the 19th century included '''[[Dagny Bang]]''', '''[[Kristine Munch]]''', '''[[Louise Isachsen]]''', '''[[Helga Eng]]''' and '''[[Rikke Nissen]]'''?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Hilde Levi]]''' helped develop the radiocarbon dating equipment used to date the [[Grauballe Man]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Tilly Edinger]]''' founded [[paleoneurology]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Ynes Mexia]]''' collected 150,000 plant samples during a career that began at the age of 55?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that pioneering midwife '''[[Marie LaChapelle]]''' first delivered a baby when she was 15?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that American botanist '''[[Mary Katharine Brandegee]]''' earned her M.D. but never practiced medicine?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that Soviet botanist [[Nikolai Vavilov]] tried to lure '''[[Margaret Newton]]''' to work at [[VASKhNIL|Lenin Academy of Agricultural Sciences]] with an offer that included a camel caravan?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Mary Helen Wright Greuter|Helen Wright]]''' researched the history of [[telescope]]s?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Elaine Didier]]''' ''(pictured)'', director of the [[Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum|Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum]] in [[Michigan]], sewed her own [[wedding dress]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that archeologist '''[[Anna Curtenius Roosevelt]]''', the great-grandaughter of [[Theodore Roosevelt]], described a [[pre-Columbian]] civilization in [[Brazil]] as having "outstanding indigenous cultural achievements"?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that in the early 1900s, '''[[Gabrielle Howard|Gabrielle Matthaei]]''' determined the role of temperature in photosynthesis, though the reaction does not bear her name today?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that in 2011, geneticist '''[[Riin Tamm]]''' ''(pictured)'' was chosen as one of 26 scientists to travel around Estonia and take part in events at schools and academic institutions?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that a few years after earning two degrees in [[Aquatic toxicology|marine toxicology]], '''[[Riki Ott]]''' ''(pictured)'' became unexpectedly involved with the [[Exxon Valdez oil spill|''Exxon Valdez'' oil spill]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Mary Barber (bacteriologist)|Mary Barber]]''' discovered that natural selection caused [[penicillin]] resistance to increase in ''[[Staphylococcus]]'' bacteria?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Helen Dyer]]''' discovered why [[chemotherapies]] with [[heavy metal (chemistry)|heavy metal]]s are toxic?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Leonora Bilger]]''' was the 1953 recipient of the American Chemical Society's [[Garvan–Olin Medal]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Ida Barney]]''' was given the 1953 [[Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy]] for measuring the positions of over 150,000 stars?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that Irish [[phycology|algologist]] '''[[Anne Elizabeth Ball]]''' has two species of seaweed named for her?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the collections of amateur [[Natural history|natural historian]] '''[[Mary Elizabeth Barber]]''' may have influenced [[Charles Darwin]]'s deliberations on the role of moths in orchid pollination?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Judith Donath]]''' has explored the use of [[Artificial intelligence|artificial]] emotions in [[avatar]]s and their potential use in [[online advertising]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that British astronomer '''[[Isis Pogson]]''' was probably named after [[The Isis|a river]], and [[42 Isis|an asteroid]] was probably named after her?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that geologist '''[[Sydney Mary Thompson]]''' discovered a [[glacial erratic]] that redefined the westernmost extent of the [[Irish Sea Glacier]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that phycologist '''[[Mary Parke]]''' first described the oyster larvae food ''[[Isochrysis galbana]]''?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[San Francisco Conservatory of Music]] faculty member '''[[Indre Viskontas]]''' ''(pictured)'' has performed research into the [[Neuroscience|neurological]] basis of memory, reasoning, and self-identity?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[Hertha Ayrton]]'s 1902 candidature to be the first '''[[List of female Fellows of the Royal Society|woman elected Fellow of the Royal Society]]''' was turned down on the basis that as a married woman she had no standing in law?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that British mathematician '''[[Margaret Meyer]]''' was the first woman to be elected to the [[Royal Astronomical Society]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that biochemist '''[[Rosalind Pitt-Rivers]]''' co-discovered the thyroid hormone [[triiodothyronine]] in 1952?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that pharmacologist '''[[Edith Bülbring]]'''{{`s}} work on [[catecholamine]]s and [[smooth muscle]] led to her election as a [[List of female Fellows of the Royal Society|Fellow of the Royal Society]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Ida Freund]]''' was the first female university chemistry lecturer in the United Kingdom?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Beatrice Hicks]]''', the founding president of the [[Society of Women Engineers]], created a device that made the moon landings possible?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that anthropologist '''[[Beatrice Blackwood]]''' ran Oxford's [[Pitt Rivers Museum]] from 1938 until 1959?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Marjory Stephenson]]''', along with [[Kathleen Lonsdale]], was one of the first two women to be elected a [[Fellow of the Royal Society]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Helen Porter]]''' helped to pioneer the use of [[radioactive tracer]]s in botany?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that neuropsychologist '''[[Eleanor Maguire]]''' was awarded an [[Ig Nobel Prize]] for demonstrating that London taxi drivers have large [[hippocampus|hippocampi]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that organic chemist '''[[Darshan Ranganathan]]''' did pioneering work in [[protein folding]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Mary Pickford (physiologist)|Mary Pickford]]''' was the first woman appointed to a medical professorship at [[Edinburgh University]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Kamala Sohonie]]''' received the [[Rashtrapati Award]] for her work on supplementing tribal diets with the beverage ''[[neera]]''?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Ann Bishop (biologist)|Ann Bishop]]''', an early female [[protozoology|protozoologist]], studied treatments for parasitic diseases including [[amoebic dysentery]] and [[malaria]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that geochemist '''[[Terry Plank]]''', awarded a [[MacArthur Fellow|2012 MacArthur genius grant]], grew up in a [[schist]] quarry and in third grade was the youngest member of the [[Delaware Mineralogical Society]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Mary Buckland]]''', a [[scientific illustrator]], took a year-long geological tour as a honeymoon with her husband [[William Buckland]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Margarete Bieber]]''' was the second woman to become a university professor in Germany?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that Tar Heel '''[[Annie Lowrie Alexander]]''' ''(pictured)'' was the first licensed female physician in the [[Southern United States]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[DARPA]] director '''[[Arati Prabhakar]]''' was the first female director of [[National Institute of Standards and Technology]], and also the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in applied physics from [[California Institute of Technology|Caltech]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that botanist''' [[Sara Plummer Lemmon]] '''authored the legislation to make the [[Eschscholzia californica|golden poppy]] ''(pictured)'' the state flower of [[California]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Elizaveta Karamihailova]]''' pioneered [[nuclear research]] in [[Bulgaria]] and made some of the earliest observations of [[neutron radiation]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that anthropologist '''[[Gene Weltfish]]''' lost her [[Columbia University]] faculty job and could not find another when U.S. Senators investigated her for alleged [[McCarthyism|un-American activities]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that anthropologist '''[[Alice G. Dewey]]''' was dissertation advisor for [[Barack Obama]]'s mother [[Ann Dunham]] at the [[University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa|University of Hawaiʻi]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that pioneering immunologist '''[[Marian Koshland|Bunny Koshland]]''' helped develop an oral [[cholera vaccine]] before she worked on the [[Manhattan Project]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the employment of '''[[Ruth Sawtell Wallis]]''' during the [[Great Depression|Depression]] was "unthinkable" because her husband was also a professor?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that swarms of Japanese [[Mictyris|soldier crabs]] of the species '''''[[Mictyris guinotae]]''''', named after French biologist '''[[Danièle Guinot]]''', can be used in place of the [[billiard ball]]s in [[billiard-ball computer]]s?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[Ada Initiative]] co-founder '''[[Valerie Aurora]]''' ''(pictured)'' chose Anita as her middle name, after the computer scientist [[Anita Borg]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[malacologist]] '''[[Myra Keen]]''' was called the "First Lady of Malacology"?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Caroline Birley]]'''{{`s}} lifelong love of [[geology]] started with stones she collected as a child on family holidays?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that according to Russian sociologist '''[[Daria Khaltourina]]''' ''(pictured)'', [[Protestantism]] influenced positively the [[capitalist]] development of social systems through the promotion of literacy and Bible reading?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that in 2004, '''[[Arfa Karim]]''' became the youngest [[Microsoft Certified Professional]] at the age of nine years?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Florence Violet McKenzie]]''', Australia's first female [[electrical engineer]], taught [[Morse code]] to thousands of sailors free of charge?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Jane Dieulafoy]]''' ''(pictured)'' received special permission from the French government to wear men's clothing in public?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[peace movement|peace activist]] '''[[Rachel MacNair]]''' founded the [[pro-life]] [[Susan B. Anthony List]] in 1993?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Fay Ajzenberg-Selove]]''' had to fight a discrimination case against the [[University of Pennsylvania]] to be hired as a tenured professor of physics?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Marimba Ani]]''' first introduced the term [[Maafa]] to describe the [[African holocaust]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the American [[neuroscientist]] '''[[Jacqueline Crawley]]''' has been President of both the [[International Behavioral Neuroscience Society]] and the [[International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Christiane Ziegler]]''' excavated the '''[[Tomb of Akhethetep]]''' ''(pictured)'' from 1991–1999?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the first woman to write a book on childbirth was '''[[Louise Bourgeois Boursier]]'''?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Elizabeth J. Feinler]]''' ''(pictured)'', better known as "Jake", ran the [[InterNIC|Network Information Center]] of the [[Internet]] until 1989?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[Netherlands|Dutch]] child psychologist '''[[Bloeme Evers-Emden]]''' was deported to [[Auschwitz concentration camp|Auschwitz]] on the same train as [[Anne Frank]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Ann Preston]]''' was the first female [[Dean (education)|dean]] of any [[medical school]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Mary Frances Winston Newson]]''' was the first American woman to be awarded a PhD in [[mathematics]] from a European university?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the [[Prehistory|prehistoric]] [[Archaeology|archaeologist]] '''[[Johanna Mestorf]]''' was the first female museum director in [[German Empire|Germany]], and at 71 became the first or second female professor?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the New Zealand mushrooms '''''[[Amanita australis]]''''', '''''[[Amanita nothofagi|A. nothofagi]]''''', '''''[[Entoloma haastii]]''''', '''''[[Mycena cystidiosa]]''''', '''''[[Mycena minirubra|M. minirubra]]''''', and '''''[[Oudemansiella australis]]''''' were all described by '''[[Greta Stevenson]]''' as new to science?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Ellen Hayes]]''' was not only a rare 19th-century female mathematics professor but was also the first woman to run for statewide office in [[Massachusetts]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Graciela Chichilnisky]]''', who proposed the [[Kyoto Protocol]]'s market for [[carbon credit]] [[emissions trading|trading]], obtained her PhDs in [[mathematics]] and [[economics]] without ever having been an [[undergraduate education#United States system|undergraduate]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that after her '''[[Baby Tooth Survey]]''' showed kids took in [[strontium-90]] from [[nuclear fallout]], Dr. '''[[Louise Reiss]]'''{{`s}} son picked up the phone and heard the caller say "This is [[John F. Kennedy|John Kennedy]], can I talk to your mom?"
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that for the 80th birthday of [[List of monarchs of Tonga|King]] [[Taufa'ahau Tupou IV|Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV]] of [[Tonga]], '''[[Adrienne L. Kaeppler|Adrienne Kaeppler]]''', curator of [[Oceania|Oceanic]] [[Ethnology]] at the [[Smithsonian Institution]], set up a special exhibition at the Tongan National Museum?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Yin Yin Nwe]]''', a Burmese geologist, was appointed [[UNICEF]] Representative to [[China]] on December 1, 2006?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Mary J. Rathbun]]''' described over 1000 new [[crustacean]] taxa, but never attended college, and received a [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] only after she retired?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Annie Meinertzhagen]]''' spent part of her [[honeymoon]] studying birds at [[Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild|Walter Rothschild]]’s [[Natural History Museum at Tring|ornithological museum]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the detection of [[supernova]] [[SN 2008D]] on {{Nowrap|January 9}}, 2008, by '''[[Alicia M. Soderberg]]''' using data from [[NASA]]'s ''[[Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission|Swift]]'' [[X-ray]] [[space telescope]] marked the first time a supernova was observed as it occurred?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that Chilean '''[[Eloísa Díaz]]''' was the first female [[physician|doctor]] in [[South America]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[Anthropology|anthropologist]] '''[[Ursula Graham Bower]]''' fought for the [[British Army]] as a [[guerrilla]] with the [[Naga people]] during [[World War&nbsp;II]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Emil Spjøtvoll]]''' was the first [[Rector#Norway|rector]] of the [[Norwegian University of Science and Technology]], whose creation he originally opposed?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize]]winner '''[[Antje Boetius]]''' believes life forms she discovered may be able to help control future [[climate change]] through [[anaerobic digestion]] of [[methane]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that 2004 [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize]]winner for neurobiology, '''[[Hannah Monyer]]''', can speak several languages and play the piano?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the wife and husband '''[[Alette Schreiner|Alette]]''' and '''[[Kristian Schreiner]]''' conducted medical research together, although Alette did not hold an academic position?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that more than twenty attendants of the '''[[Cécile DeWitt-Morette]]'''{{'}}s summer school in the [[Alps]] were later awarded the [[Nobel Laureate|Nobel Prize]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that despite having a [[Ph.D.]] and being a foremost North American authority on the difficult [[mushroom]] genera ''[[Lactarius]]'' and ''[[Russula]]'', '''[[Gertrude S. Burlingham]]''' only ever taught high school [[biology]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[sex therapy]] pioneer '''[[Helen Singer Kaplan]]''' advocated for people to enjoy [[sexual intercourse]] as much as possible as opposed to seeing it as something dirty or harmful?
*{{icon|DYK}} ...  that '''[[Janet Vida Watson]]'''{{`}}s first job involved researching the growth of chickens, but that she went on to become the first woman  president of the [[Geological  Society of London]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that Canadian [[astrophysics|astrophysicist]] '''[[Victoria Kaspi]]''' was one of the first to observe the [[millisecond pulsar|cosmic recycling]] of [[pulsar]]s?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that 13-year-old '''[[Emer Jones]]'''{{`}}s "Research and Development of Emergency Sandbag Shelters" helped her win the 2008 [[Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition]], the youngest ever and her school's debut?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that in 1974, [[Rudolf Jaenisch]] and '''[[Beatrice Mintz]]''' created the first [[transgenesis|transgenic]] mouse by injecting DNA from [[Simian virus 40]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[Stanford University]] biochemist '''[[Annette Salmeen]]''' was both an [[1996 Summer Olympics|Olympic]] gold medalist and a [[Rhodes Scholar]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that Dr. '''[[Ruth L. Kirschstein]]''', appointed as the director of the [[National Institute of General Medical Sciences]] in 1974, was the first woman to direct an institute at the [[National Institutes of Health]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[psychiatrist]] '''[[Marie Nyswander]]''', who developed the [[methadone]] treatment for [[heroin]] [[drug addiction|addicts]], was herself addicted to [[cigarette]]s?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that stand-up comedian and actress '''[[Retta (comedian)|Retta]]''' said her role on ''[[Parks and Recreation]]'' is stressful because she was initially unsure the show would last due to poor reviews?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Nancy Wexler]]''', who discovered the location of the gene that causes [[Huntington's disease]] and created a genetic test for it, is herself at risk as the daughter of a sufferer?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[physical chemistry|physical chemists]] '''[[Isabella Karle]]''' and her [[Nobel Prize]]-winning husband [[Jerome Karle]] retired in July 2009 after a combined 127 years of employment at the [[United States Naval Research Laboratory|U.S. Naval Research Laboratory]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[Romania]]'s ruling [[Social Democratic Party (Romania)|Social Democratic]]–[[Democratic Liberal Party (Romania)|Democratic Liberal]] coalition was divided over [[Ministry of Education, Research and Innovation (Romania)|Education Minister]] '''[[Ecaterina Andronescu]]'''{{'}}s intervention in the appointment of school directors?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Angelika Amon]]''' discovered two [[gene regulatory networks]] that regulate the exit of cells from [[mitosis]] to the [[G1 phase]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Martha Wollstein]]''' became the first female member of the [[American Pediatric Society]] in 1930?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Marcia McNutt]]''', nominee for director of the [[United States Geological Survey]], studied [[underwater demolition]] and [[explosive material|explosives]] handling with the [[Underwater Demolition Team|U.S. Navy UDT]] and [[United States Navy SEALs|Seal Team]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[theoretical biologist]] '''[[Mary Jane West-Eberhard]]''' says that she learnt more about science at high school from her English course on critical reading and writing than from her biology class?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[paleontology|paleontologist]] '''[[Gerta Keller]]''' theorizes that dinosaurs did not become extinct until 300,000 years after the [[Chicxulub crater|Chicxulub meteor]], though she agrees that "I'm sure the day after, they had a headache"?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Anna Goldfeder]]''', a pioneering researcher in the fields of [[radiology]] and [[cancer treatment]], worked as a research scientist in an abandoned building for two years before she secured enough grant money to move her laboratory?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that as a student, [[mathematician]] '''[[Audrey Terras]]''' was steered into [[math]] away from her other choice, [[history]], by a post-[[Sputnik]] program that paid students to study mathematics?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that before being dismissed for flawed casework analysis, [[forensic chemistry|forensic chemist]] '''[[Joyce Gilchrist]]''' contributed evidence for 23 [[trial %28law%29|trial]]s that resulted in [[capital punishment|death sentences]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Ida Henrietta Hyde]]''' was the first woman to receive a [[Ph.D.]] at the [[University of Heidelberg]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Elizabeth Lee Hazen]]''' developed the world's first useful [[antifungal]] [[antibiotic]], [[nystatin]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that in 1980, [[planktology|planktologist]] '''[[Grethe Rytter Hasle]]''' was the only female representative of [[natural sciences]] in the [[Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[British people|British]] [[anthropologist]] '''[[Kathleen Gough]]''' and her husband were believed to be on the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]]'s [[watchlist]] due to their alleged [[Marxist]]  leanings?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Jane Sterk]]''' joined the [[Green Party of British Columbia]] after witnessing environmental degradation in Mexico and became its leader six years later?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Eslanda Goode Robeson]]''', wife of [[Paul Robeson]], was the first black to head the Surgical Pathology Department at [[New York-Presbyterian Hospital]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Lorene Rogers]]''' was described as the first woman to serve as head of a public university in the [[United States]] when she became president of the [[University of Texas at Austin]] in 1974?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Marcia P. Sward]]''', who created the children's [[environmental education]] program ''GreenKids'', started her career as a [[mathematician]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that British [[plant physiology|plant physiologist]] '''[[Daphne Osborne]]''' showed that the gas [[ethylene]] is a natural [[plant hormone]] which regulates [[senescence|ageing]] and the [[abscission|shedding]] of leaves and fruits?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Lisa Rossbacher]]''', president of [[Southern Polytechnic State University]], is the first female [[geologist]] to become a university president?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[linguist]] '''[[Carol Chomsky]]''' developed the technique of repeated reading, in which children gain fluency by reading along with a recording of a text until they can do so on their own?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Łucja Frey]]''' ''(pictured)'' is considered to be one of the first female academic [[neurology|neurologists]] in Europe?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Harriet Holter]]''', an [[economist]] by education, has been described as a pioneer of [[women's studies]] in the [[Nordic countries]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that mathematician '''[[Karen Vogtmann]]''' co-authored a paper which produced a method for quantifying the difference and computing the distance between two [[phylogenetic tree]]s?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that during the [[occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany|German occupation of Norway]], '''[[Astrid Løken]]''' combined [[entomology|entomological]] [[field research]] with secret photography for the [[Norwegian resistance movement|resistance group]] [[XU]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Julia Morton]]''' was the "poison plant center in south [[Florida]]"?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[American Australian]] [[astronomer]] '''[[Penny Sackett]]''' has been appointed as the next [[Office of the Chief Scientist (Australia)|Chief Scientist of Australia]] and will commence her duties in November 2008?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[chemosynthesis]], the process enabling [[deep sea]] [[invertebrate]]s to survive without [[sunlight]], was discovered by '''[[Colleen Cavanaugh]]'''?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Lydia Becker]]''', founder of the ''Women's Suffrage Journal'', was also an amateur [[botany|botanist]] and friend of [[Charles Darwin]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[Australia]]n [[natural history|naturalist]] and [[botanical illustrator|botanical artist]] '''[[Rica Erickson]]''' wrote her first book ''Orchids of the West'' in 1951?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that Dr. '''[[Maressa Orzack]]''' at [[Harvard Medical School]] stated that 40 percent of ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' players were [[Video game addiction|addicted]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Jane S. Richardson]]''' developed the ubiquitous [[ribbon diagram]] method of representing [[protein]]s?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[Yolngu]] [[Australian Aborigines|aboriginal]] leader '''[[Raymattja Marika]]''' was [[Northern Territory]]'s [[Australian of the Year]] in 2006?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Safi Faye]]''' is a [[Senegal]]ese [[film director]] whose work is better known in [[Europe]] than in her native [[Africa]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that by using the [[Bevatron]] and nuclear emulsion technique, '''[[Sulamith Goldhaber]]''' was the first person to observe nuclear interactions of the [[antiproton]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that  '''[[Emmy Noether]]''' ''(pictured)'' was called "the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began" by [[Albert Einstein]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the [[United States of America|American]] [[mathematician]] '''[[Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler]]''' married a former professor, who was actually a [[Russia]]n [[double agent]] named Sergei Degaev?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the utility of [[heavy water]] as a [[Neutron moderator|moderator]] in a [[Nuclear reactor technology|nuclear reactor]] was demonstrated by '''[[Klara Döpel]]''' and her husband [[Robert Döpel|Robert]] in the 1940s?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[Georgia Institute of Technology|Georgia Tech]] professor '''[[Rebecca Grinter]]''' supervised a 2005 study which found that [[iTunes]] users in the workplace experience "[[playlist]] anxiety"?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Bess Thomas]]''', a former [[Australia]]n librarian, became the first female to be given the position of "Chief Librarian" in [[New South Wales]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[New York City]]-born [[mathematician]] '''[[Judith Roitman]]''' serves as the guiding [[Zen teacher|teacher]] of the Kansas Zen Center?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Helen Abbott Michael]]''', originally trained as a [[pianist]], became a [[Phytochemistry|plant chemist]] and earned her [[Doctor of Medicine|MD]] after a chance purchase of [[Hermann von Helmholtz|Helmholtz's]] ''Treatise on Physiological Optics'' on a trip to Europe?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[National Scientist of the Philippines|National Scientist]] '''[[Fe del Mundo|Dr. Fe del Mundo]]''' was the first [[Filipino people|Filipina]]  enrolled in [[Harvard Medical School]] and the only female student at that time?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Ann C. Noble]]''', inventor of the "Aroma Wheel", was the first woman hired as a faculty member of the [[UC Davis Department of Viticulture and Enology]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Marsha Looper]]''', a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] [[state legislator]] elected to the [[Colorado House of Representatives]] in 2006 by a 2-to-1 margin, is also a [[systems engineer]], [[real estate broker]], and [[ranch]]er?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Yoky Matsuoka]]''', a [[neuroscience]] and [[robotics]] researcher, was once the 21st ranked [[tennis]] player in Japan?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[herpetologist]] '''[[Doris M. Cochran]]''', the [[Smithsonian Institution]]'s first female curator, died four days after her retirement?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that in 1902, 23-year-old [[Briton|British]] [[archaeozoology|archaeozoologist]] '''[[Dorothea Bate]]''' discovered a new species of [[dwarf elephant]] in a cave on the island of [[Cyprus]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[Mdm2]], whose role in regulating [[p53]] was discovered by [[British]] scientist '''[[Karen Vousden]]''', is a potential target for [[Chemotherapy|anti-cancer drugs]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Amri Hernandez-Pellerano]]''', a Puerto Rican [[electronics engineer]] and scientist, designed the power systems electronics for the [[NASA]] [[WMAP]] mission?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Mercedes Reaves]]''', a [[Puerto Rico|Puerto Rican]] [[research]] [[engineer]] and [[scientist]], is responsible for the design of a viable, full-scale [[solar sail]] at the [[NASA]] [[Langley Research Center]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that ''[[Boston Legal]]'' actress '''[[Meredith Eaton-Gilden]]''' (''pictured'') is also a practicing [[clinical psychologist]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Olga D. González-Sanabria]]''', a [[Puerto Rico|Puerto Rican]] [[scientist]] and [[inventor]], is the highest ranking [[Hispanic]] at [[NASA]] [[Glenn Research Center]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[National Medal of Science]] recipient '''[[Evelyn M. Witkin]]''''s interest in [[mutation|mutagenesis]] led her to discover mechanisms of bacterial [[DNA repair]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[United States|American]] [[systems theorist]] '''[[Debora Hammond]]''' explores new ways of thinking about [[complex systems]] that support more participatory forms of [[social organization]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Cecilia Krieger]]''', who translated the work of [[Sierpinski]] into English, was the first woman to receive a Ph.D in mathematics in Canada?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that debt-relief activist '''[[Ann Pettifor]]''' staged a 70,000 person protest which formed a [[human chain]] and encircled the [[24th G8 summit|1998 G8 summit]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[Plant collecting|plant collector]] '''[[Mary Strong Clemens]]''' sometimes paid for field-trip accommodation with [[scripture]] lessons and [[hymn]]-singing?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Kadambini Ganguly]]''' ''(pictured)'' was one of the first female graduates in the [[British Empire]] and the first female [[medicine|conventional]] doctor in [[South Asia]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[cognitive psychology|cognitive psychologist]] '''[[Elizabeth Spelke]]''' showed that human beings are born with many innate skills?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Claudia Alexander]]''' was the last project manager of [[NASA]]'s [[Galileo spacecraft|Galileo mission]] to [[Jupiter]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that Mount Burbidge in [[Namadgi National Park]] was named for Australian botanist '''[[Nancy Tyson Burbidge]]''', who was instrumental in lobbying for the foundation of the park?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that economist '''[[Barbara Ward]]''', an early advocate of [[sustainable development]], was the first woman ever to address a [[synod]] of [[Roman Catholic]] [[bishop]]s?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Jane Colden]]''' was the first female [[botany|botanist]] to describe [[flora]] in the [[United States]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that [[Germany|German]] [[naturalist]] '''[[Amalie Dietrich]]''', who spent 10 years working in [[Australia]], was the first person to collect the highly [[venom]]ous [[snake]]s known as [[taipan]]s?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw]]''' is [[India]]'s richest [[woman]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that '''[[Terri Irwin]]''', co-owner of the [[Australia Zoo]] and co-star of ''[[The Crocodile Hunter]]'' series on television, began caring for injured [[wildlife]] as a child and ran her own rehab facility for 5 years before she met [[Steve Irwin]]?
*{{icon|DYK}} ... that the word ''[[ecology]]'' was coined by '''[[Ellen Swallow Richards]]''', the first woman admitted to the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]?
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