History

This section of the Women in Biology Launch Page provides links related to history of women in science. If you just arrived, please start at the first page for an introduction to the site and an index (you can use the buttons at right to navigate all pages).

Women scientists past and present

Distinguished Women of Past and Present includes a page focused on prominent women biologists.
4000 years of women in science
Prominent women in science
AWIS has assembled an on-line timeline of women in history
Another Timeline
Women Scientists in history
Women in the spotlight
Women at MBL (Woods Hole)
Biographies of Women in Developmental Biology
Index of African American Women Scientists
Women Nobel Laureates
Women in Math and Science Links from the National Women's History Project
Women in Biomedicine
16 women in science
Great women in Science Page
Profiles from Euroscience Women in Science
Comprehensive list of Women's History links and an index of famous women from Women's Educational Equity site
Archives of Women in Science and Engineering from Iowa State
The Women's Museum, an "institute for the future", opens October 2000 in Dallas.
Great Women Hall of Fame
Women Inventors Museum
An essay about the history (or lack thereof) of women in science
Check out these profiles celebrating Women in Science and Technology Month, in June of each year.
Biographies of Women in Neuroscience

Individuals

Florence Nightingale broke a number of barriers, including the application of statistics to scientific and social problems--and all this as a woman in Victorian England!
Rosalind Franklin is one of the most famous of women biologists. There are a number of sites devoted to her, including this timeline and this essay. Also, this site discusses what really happened in The Double Helix? Genentech provides this Franklin biography.
Nettie Stevens found that inheritance of the X and Y chromosomes determined sex in insects.
Hypatia, probably the earliest of women in science
Elizabeth Hazen and Rachel Brown developed the antifungal drug Nystatin. Thanks to AWIS-San Diego for introducing me to these women!
Elizabeth Blackwell was the first medical graduate in the US. See this on line exhibition.
Maria Sibylla Merian, 17th c. artist, botanist, naturalist
Four heroines of science: Lise Meitner, Maria Goeppert Mayer, Rosalind Franklin, and Rachel Carson