Marie Curie was the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize and made history despite the male-oriented science field. She was regarded as one of the brightest and best in her field of work, even when, during their time, it was very challenging to prove a woman's worth in the scientific community.
CNN reports that the United Nations data revealed that scientific researchers were only comprised of less than 30 percent of women. Studies show that this could be due to several factors, including but not limited to women being discouraged from pursuing science.
Pew Research Center said that women are still underrepresented today in various science fields, such as in engineering, computer science, and physical science.
Despite gender discrimination and lack of recognition, many women are still aspiring in these fields, hoping to make historical contributions someday and advance their understanding of the world. Although many of them went underrecognized, still their contribution has helped generations of women in science.
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Below are ten women who also made history in science with their helpful contributions that you should know:
Mary Anning (1799-1847)
It is said that Mary Anning, a seaside paleontologist, inspired the children's tongue twister "she sells seashells by the seashore." Her hometown, Lyme Regis in southwestern England, is near the area where several Jurassic fossils can be found.
Emmy Noether's research helped lay the foundation for modern physics and two critical fields in mathematics. She was considered to be one of the great mathematicians in the 20th century.
The most popular of her works is the Noether Theorem, which laid the groundwork for further work necessary for modern physics and quantum mechanics.
Noether later helped with abstract algebra, the work that other mathematicians most highly regard her. She went on to make several contributions in different fields of science before her death in April 1935.
She was a Jewish woman, so when Adolf Hitler ordered the expulsion of Jews in universities, she saw students in her home. She followed fellow German scientists like Albert Einstein to the United States.
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