[harleyquinn]

I'm curious as to where you've come up with women have not contributed much to science. Below is just a small list from geology, to radioactivity, to inventions:

Mary Anning -- found the first complete icthyosaurus skeleton in 1811 as well as a plesisaur and a pterodactyl in 1828

Marie Curie -- is famous for her work on radioactivity. In fact, she and her husband, Pierre, first coined that word. She won the Nobel prize twice, first in 1903 (jointly with her husband, and with Henri Becquerel) for the discovery of radium and polonium, and again (by herself) in 1911 for the isolation of pure radium

Ellen Eguli (late 19C)-- invented the clothes wringer for washing machines

Rosalind Elsie Franklin (1920-1957) -- she was the first to recognize the helix shape of DNA

Mary Hebraea (1st C) -- discovered the formula for hydrochloric acid

Hikldegard (1099-1179) -- her ideas on universal gravitation are correct and pre-date Newton's by several centuries

Grace Hopper (1906-1992) -- The "mother" of the modern computer. Invented the modern subroutine. She invented the language APT. She verified the language COBOL

Lady Augusta Ada Byron Lovelace (1815-1851) -- She is considered the first computer programmer. Wrote the "code" to program Babbage's first computer.

Sarah Mather (19C) -- 1845 she received the patent for the submarine telescope and lamp

Maud Menten (20C) -- She was an early 20th century biologist working in Toronto, Canada in enzyme kinetics. The method she developed is called Michealis-Menten Kinetics and is the standard technique used today.

Emily Noether (1882-1935) -- developed the basis for group theory. Group theory is the mathematics behind the representation of all modern physics

Nettie Stevens (1861-1912) -- the biologist who determined that the X and Y chromosomes determine gender

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921 -) -- won half of the Nobel prize in medicine in 1977 "for the devlopement of radioimmunoassays of peptide hormones".


As I said, these are just a few, there are many more inventions and advances in science from women. Just go to your library or the web to read up on more.