The 10 best unsung female scientists (mostly of the past)

**C C** · May 26, 2015 05:30 PM

http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/...scientists

EXCERPT: Rachel Swaby, author of a book highlighting women’s contributions to science, chooses her favourite female scientists, from the greatest dinosaur hunter to the inventor of Kevlar...

Mary Anning - Palaeontologist (1799-1847)

Alice Hamilton - Pathologist (1869-1970)

Lise Meitner - Physicist (1878-1968)

Inge Lehmann - Seismologist (1888-1993)

Hilde Mangold - Experimental embryologist (1898-1924)

Elsie Widdowson - Nutritionist (1906-2000)

Virginia Apgar - Anaesthesiologist (1909-1974)

Chien-Shiung Wu - Physicist (1912-1997)

Anne McLaren - Developmental biologist (1927-2007)

Stephanie Kwolek - Chemist (1923-2014)

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