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2 April 1647, Frankfurt am Main, Germany → 13 January 1717, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Was a German scientist, entomologist, naturalist, explorer, scientific illustrator and painter of Swiss parents -
17 December 1706, Paris, France → 10 September 1749, Lunéville, France
Was a French mathematician, physicist and philosopher, translator of Newton into French and disseminator of his theories -
16 March 1750, Hannover, Germany → 9 January 1848, Hannover, Germany
Was a German astronomer who also lived in England. She worked with her brother Sir William Herschel in the development of their telescopes and in their observations -
20 January 1758,Montbrison, France→ 10 February 1836,Paris, Framce
Marie Lavoisier is often mentioned together with her husband, the scientist Antoine Lavoisier, and worked with him in collaboration, although her scientific achievements in chemistry are less well known -
1 April 1776, Rue Saint-Denis, Paris, France → 27 June 1831, Paris, France
Was a self-taught French mathematician and physicist who was one of the pioneers of elasticity theory and made important contributions to number theory. One of her most important works was the study of what later became known as Sophie Germain's prime numbers -
26 December 1780, Jedburgh, UK → 29 November 1872, Naples, Italy
Was a Scottish scientist, writer and scholar. Self-taught, she studied mathematics and astronomy and in 1835 was elected along with Caroline Herschel as the first female honorary members of the Royal Astronomical Society