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# The big list of women who did things
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Unfinished, obviously.
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Last updated: 2023-02-28
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## Art
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- [Aphra Behn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphra_Behn): one of the first English women to earn her living by her writing
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- [Tina Bell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina_Bell): pioneer of the "grunge" music genre, before Nirvana
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- [Diemoth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diemoth): 12th-century recluse who transcribed at least forty-five manuscripts; notable for her "beautiful handwriting"
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- [Enheduanna](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enheduanna): first known poet
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- [Herrad of Landsberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herrad_of_Landsberg): 12th-century nun who wrote an early pictoral encyclopedia, *Hortus deliciarum*, to teach the women in her convent about the sciences of the time
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- [Murasaki Shikibu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murasaki_Shikibu): wrote the first novel, *The Tale of Genji*
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- [Valerie Thomas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Thomas): invented the illusion transmitter, critical for the invention of 3D movies
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## Computers
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- [Ada Lovelace](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace): the first computer programmer
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- Kathleen Booth: inventor of assembly language
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- [Evelyn Berezin](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Berezin): designed the first computer word proecssor
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- [Margaret Hamilton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hamilton_(software_engineer)): lead programmer on the Apollo project
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- [Grace Hopper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper): created the first compiler
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- [Susan Kare](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Kare): "pioneer of pixel art"; designed many of the icons, fonts, and images for Apple, NeXT, and IBM in the 1980s
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- [Hedy Lamarr](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr#Inventor): invented Wi-Fi
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- [Ruth Teitelbaum](https://web.archive.org/web/20221129021942/https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-women-behind-eniac): one of the six women who programmed ENIAC
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- [Gladys West](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_West): mathematician who developed the satellite geodesy models eventually developed into the Global Positioning System (GPS)
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## Industry
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- [Tabitha Babbitt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabitha_Babbitt): invented the circular saw
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- [Katharine Burr Blodgett](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Burr_Blodgett): invented non-reflective (invisible) glass
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- [Josephine Cochrane](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Cochrane): invented first commercially successful dishwasher
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- [Bette Nesmith Graham](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bette_Nesmith_Graham): invented Liquid Paper
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- [Margaret Knight](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_E._Knight): invented the paper bag machine
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- [Stephanie Kwolek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie_Kwolek): invented Kevlar
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## Medicine
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- [June Almeida](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/June_Almeida): discovered the coronavirus group of viruses
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- [Leila Denmark](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Leila_Denmark): synthesised the first vaccine for pertussis (whooping cough)
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- [Rosalind Franklin](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind Franklin]: discovered the double-helix formation of DNA
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- [Barbara McClintock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_McClintock): discovered that genes can move between chromosomes
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- [Rita Levi-Montalcini](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Levi-Montalcini): discovered nerve growth factor
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- [Andromachi Papanikolaou](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromachi_Papanikolaou): key factor in the development of the pap smear test
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- [Candace Pert](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Candace_Pert): discovered the opiate receptor in the brain
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- [Mildred Catherine Rebstock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mildred_Rebstock): first person to synthesise chloromycetin (an antibiotic)
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- [Trota of Salerno](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Trota_of_Salerno): first gynecologist
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- [Nettie Stevens](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nettie_Stevens): discovered that chromosomes determine sex
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- [Flossie Wong-Staal](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Flossie_Wong-Staal): proved that HIV causes AIDS
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## Science
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- [Patricia Bath](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Bath): inventor of the Laserphaco Probe
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- [Ethel Bauer](https://web.archive.org/web/20220716220051/https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/history/ethel-heinecke-bauer.html): planned lunar trajectories for the Apollo program, critical to 13's safe return
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- [Jocelyn Bell Burnell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Bell_Burnell): discovered first pulsar
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- [Annie Jump Cannon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Jump_Cannon): developed the first stellar classification system; classified almost 400,000 stars
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- [Mary Jackson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Jackson_(engineer)): NASA's first Black female engineer
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- [Mae Jemison](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae_Jemison): first Black woman in space
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- [Katherine Johnson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Johnson): mathematician crucial for the success of the first USA spaceflights
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- [Mary Kenner](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Kenner): inventor of the menstrual pad; holder of the record for the most patents awarded to a Black woman in the USA
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- [Inge Lehmann](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inge_Lehmann): discovered the Earth has a solid inner core
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- [Lise Meitner](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Lise_Meitner): discovered nuclear fission
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- [Mary Sherman Morgan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Sherman_Morgan): invented hydyne (a liquid rocket fuel)
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- [Cecilia Payne](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilia_Payne-Gaposchkin): discovered what the universe and sun are made of
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- [Clarice Phelps](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarice_Phelps): part of the team that discovered element 117 (tennessine); first Black woman involved with the discovery of a chemical element
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- [Vera Rubin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Rubin): discovered dark matter
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- [Seondeok of Silla](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Seondeok_of_Silla): set up first astronomy tower in Asia
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- [Donna Strickland](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Strickland): winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics for the practical implementation of chirped pulse amplification
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- [Judy Sullivan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Sullivan): biomedical engineer for the Apollo 11 spaceflight
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- [Maria Telkes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1ria_Telkes): co-built first solar-power-heated heated home with Eleanor Raymond
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- [Marie Tharp](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Tharp): mapped the floor of the Atlantic Ocean; proved the theory of continential drift
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- [Chien-Shiung Wu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chien-Shiung_Wu): first woman to become president of the American Physical Society; worked on the Manhattan Project and proved that parity is not conserved
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- [...and many more](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_female_scientists_before_the_20th_century)
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## Social Change
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- [Claudette Colvin](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudette_Colvin): pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement; efused to give up her bus seat nine months before Rosa Parks did
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- [Temple Grandin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Grandin): one of the first public figures to publically come out as Autistic; animal welfare activist that campaigned for humane treatment of cattle in beef processing plants
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- [Judith Heumann](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Heumann): held the longest sit-in in a government building for the enactment of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (civil rights protection for disabled people)
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## Misc
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- [Marie Van Brittan Brown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Van_Brittan_Brown): co-invented home security surveillance
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- [Bessie Coleman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Coleman): first Black woman to earn an international pilot's license; first known female aviator
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- [Elizabeth Magie](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizzie_Maggie): created the progenitor to the *Monopoly* board game
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