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Harriet Tubman
In 1820, Harriet Tubman was born. In Deccember, 1851, she guided a group of 11 fugitives northward. She worked for the Union Army as a cook and a nurse. She has been ones of the most famous civilians in American History before the Civil War. -
Christine Ladd-Franklin
Chrstine Ladd-Franklin was born December 1, 1847. She studied trigonometry, biology, and languages on her own. She translated Schillers "Des Madchens Klage" into English which was published in the Hartford local newspaper. She was also a lecturer on logic and psychology for 5 years at Johns Hopkins University. -
Clara Latimer Bacon
Clara Latimer Bacon was born on August 23, 1866. She graduated from Hedding College, Abdingdon, Illonois in 1886. She recieve her B.A. degree from Wellesley College in 1890. She then got promoted to associate professor at Goucher in 1905 and to full professor in 1914. -
Amy Beach
Amy Beach was born September 5, 1867. She was a piano virtuoso, considered the first major American female composer and one of the leading composers of the New England School. Her mother, Clara Imogene Marcy Cheney, started teaching her how to play the piano at age six. WHen her husband died in 1910, her comeback as a concert pianist proved to be successful. -
Virginia Ragsdale
Virginia Ragsdale was born on December 13, 1870. She graduated in 1887 as valedictorian. She attended Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina, and was in the establishment of a YMCA on campus. She also graduated from Guilford College with a B.S. degree in 1892 with the highest Scholastic average. -
Elizabeth Stephansen
Elizabeth Sephansen was born on March 10, 1872. She was the first woman from Norway to recieve a doctoral degree in any subject. She taught at the Norwegian Agricultural College from 1906 until her retirement in 1937. She also published 4 mathematical reserach papers on partial differential equations and difference equations. -
Helen Keller
Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880. She graduated, cum laude, from Radcliffe in 1904 at the age of 24. Helen was born blind and dea. She also raised awareness, money, and support for the blind. Also, she help find the ALCU. -
Edith Clarke
Edith Clarke was born on February 10, 1883. She studied mathematics and astronomy at Vassar College. In 1947, she was appointed a full professor at the University of Texas, becoming the first female professor of electrical engineering in the country. In 1948, she became the 1st woman elected as a fellow of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. -
Elizabeth Morgan Cooper
Elizabeth Cooper was born on January 19, 1891 and died on May 17, 1967. She was the principal of the Buckingham school for girls in Cambridge, MA. She graduated from Radclife College with A.B, magna cum laude, in mathematics. She also wrote an Algebra book, which stayed unpublished, called "Letters to Anne." -
Mabel Schmeiser Barnes
Mabel Schmeisser Barnes was born on July 29, 1905. She graduated from Cornell in 1926 with a B.A. degree in mathematics. In 1933, she became 1 of 2 women accepted into the 1st group of mathematicians. She then retired in 1971 as Professor Emerita of mathematics. -
Grace Hopper
Grace Hopper was born on December 9, 1906. She was an American Computer Scientist and a United States Navy Officer. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Vassar in 1928 with a bachelors degree in mathematics and physics. Then, she retired from the Naval Reserve with the rank of Commander at the end of 1966. -
Sheila Scott Macintyre
Shelia Scott Macintyre was born on April 23, 1910. She attented Edinbergh Ladies College with first class honors in mathematics and got natural philosophy from the University of Edinbergh. She was a co-author of a German-English mathematic dictionary. Some of the results she wrote were published in the journal of the London Mathematical Society. -
Julia Bowman Robinson
Julia Bowman Robinson was born on December 8, 1919. She recieved her doctorate in 1948. She became the first woman mathematician to be elected to the National Academy of sciences in 1975. She graduated in 1936 with honors in mathematics and science courses and the Bausch-Lomb medal for all around excellence in science. -
Carol Karp
Carol Karp was born on August 10, 1926 She earned a masters degree in mathematics from Michigan State University in 1950. She wrote a book named "Languages with Expressions of Infinate Length." She was also a consulting editor of the Journal of Symbolic Logic. -
Mary Lou Retton
Mary Lou Retton was born Janruary 24, 1968. She trained in Gymnastics with Romanian coach Bela Karolyi and won the American Cup and the U.S. Nationals. At the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, she won a gold medal in the women's all-around and it was the first time a female gymnast outside Eastern Europe won that event.
