Agnes Scott College

Alphabetical Index of Women Mathematicians


A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z

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A

button Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718-1799)
button Florence Eliza Allen (1876-1960)
button Annie Dale Biddle Andrews (1885-1940)
button Hertha Ayrton (1854-1923)

B

button Clara Latimer Bacon (1866-1948)
button Grace M. Bareis (1875-1962)
button Nina Karlovna Bari (1901-1961)
button Ruth Aaronsom Bari (1917-2005)
button Mabel Schmeiser Barnes (1905-1993)
button Charlotte Barnum (1860-1934)
button Lida Barrett (1927-2021)
button Agnes Baxter (1870-1917)
button Lulu Hofmann Bechtolsheim (1902-1989)
button Alexandra Bellow (1935-)
button Suzan Rose Benedict (1873-1942)
button Elizabeth R. Bennett (1880-1972)
button Dorothy Lewis Bernstein (1914-1988)
button Joan S. Birman (1927- )
button Gertrude Blanch (1898-1996)
button Lenore Blum (1942- )
button Mary Everest Boole (1832-1916)
button Valentina Mikhailovna Borok (1931-2004)
button Marjorie Lee Browne (1914-1979)
button Josephine E. Burns (1887-1969)

C

button Mary Lucy Cartwright (1900-1998)
button Sun-Yung Alice Chang (1948- )
button Emilie du Chatelet (1706-1749)
button YoungJu Choie (1959- )
button Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (1923- )
button Fan Chung (1949- )
button Maria Cinquini-Cibrario (1905-1992)
button Edith Clarke (1883-1959)
button Teresa Cohen (1892-1992)
button Anna Julia Cooper (1858-1964)
button Elizabeth Morgan Cooper (1891-1967)
button Elizabeth Buchanan Cowley (1874-1945)
button Gertrude Mary Cox (1900-1978)
button Louise Duffield Cummings (1870-1947)
button Susan Jane Cunningham (1842-1921)

D

button Ingrid Daubechies (1954- )
button Florence Nightingale David (1909-1993)
button Elizabeth Dickerman (1872-1954)
button Caren Diefenderfer (1952-2017)
button Agnes Meyer Driscoll (1889-1971)

E

button Annie Jean Easley (1933-2011)

F

button Etta Falconer (1933-2002)
button Sister Mary Celine Fasenmyer (1906-1996)
button Philippa Garrett Fawcett (1868-1948)
button Kate Fenchel (1905-1983)
button Jacqueline Ferrand (1918-2014)
button Annie MacKinnon Fitch (1868-1940)
button Irmgard Flugge-Lotz (1903-1974)
button Anne Bosworth Focke (1868-1907)
button Irene Fonseca (1956- )
button Herta Taussig Freitag (1908-2000)

G

button Hilda Geiringer von Mises (1893-1973)
button Ruth Gentry (1862-1917)
button Sophie Germain (1776-1831)
button Nadeschda Gernet (1877-1943)
button Sister Mary Gervase (1888-1926)
button Gloria Gilmer (1928-2021)
button Ruth Gonzalez
button Evelyn Boyd Granville (1924- )
button Mary Gray (1938- )

H

button Margaret Jarman Hagood (1908-1963)
button Deborah Tepper Haimo (1921-2007)
button Louise Hay (1935-1989)
button Ellen Amanda Hayes (1851-1930)
button Euphemia Lofton Haynes (1890-1980)
button Nola Haynes (1897-1996)
button Olive Clio Hazlett (1890-1974)
button Cora Barbara Hennel (1886-1947)
button Anna Stafford Henriques (1905-2004)
button Caroline Herschel (1750-1848)
button Hu Hesheng (1928- )
button Gloria Hewitt (1935- )
button Grace Brewster Murray Hopper (1906-1992)
button Goldie Printis Horton (1887-1972)
button Hilda Phoebe Hudson (1881-1965)
button Irene Hueter (1965- )
button Hypatia (370?-415)

I

J

button Mary Jackson (1921-2005)
button Sof'ja Aleksandrovna Janovskaja (1896-1966)
button Svenlana Jitomirskaya (1966-)
button Katherine Johnson (1918-2020)

K

button Hermine Kalutsyan
button Carol Karp (1926-1972)
button Linda Keen (1940- )
button Claribel Kendall (1889-1965)
button Frances Clare Kirwan (1959- )
button Pelageya Yakovlevna Polubarinova Kochina (1899-1999)
button Nancy Kopell (1942- )
button Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850-1891)
button Cecilia Krieger (1894-1974)
button Krystyna Kuperberg (1944- )

L

button Christine Ladd-Franklin (1847-1930)
button Olga Alexandrovna Ladyzhenskaya (1922-2004)
button Edna Kramer Lassar (1902-1984)
button Emma Trotskaia Lehmer (1906-2007)
button Marguerite Lehr (1898-1988)
button Paulette Libermann (1919-2007)
button Elizaveta Fedorovna Litvinova (1845-1919)
button Marie Litzinger (1899-1952)
button Mayme I. Logsdon (1881-1967)
button Ada Byron Lovelace, (1815-1852)
button Edith Hirsch Luchins (1921-2002)

M

button Sheila Scott Macintyre (1910-1960)
button F. Jessie MacWilliams (1917-1990)
button Isabel Maddison (1869-1950)
button Vivienne Malone-Mayes (1932-1995)
button Emilie Norton Martin (1869-1936)
button Verdiana Grace Masanja (1954- )
button Vera Nikoaevna Maslennikova (1926-2000)
button Dorothy McCoy (1903-2001)
button Dusa McDuff (1945- )
button Sharon Menard (1934- )
button Helen Abbot Merrill (1864-1949)
button Winifred Edgerton Merrill (1862-1951)
button Ida Metcalf (1857-1952)
button Maryam Mirzakhani (1977-2017)
button Cathleen Morawetz (1923-2017)
button Ruth Moufang (1905-1977)
button Anna Margaret Mullikin (1893-1975)

N

button Evelyn M. Nelson (1943-1987)
button Hanna Neumann (1914-1971)
button Mary Frances Winston Newson (1869-1959)
button Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)
button Emmy Noether (1882-1935)

O

button Olga Arsen'enva Oleinik (1925-2001)
button Gloria Olive (1923-2006)
button Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw (1912-2014)
button Helen Brewster Owens (1881-1968)

P

button Anna Helene Palmie (1863-1946)
button Raman Parimala (1948- )
button Leona May Peirce (1863-1954)
button Charlotte Elvira Pengra (1875-1916)
button Bernadette Perrin-Riou (1955- )
button Rózsa Péter (1905-1977)
button Sophie Piccard (1904-1990)
button Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia (1646-1684)
button Vera Pless (1931-2020)
button Freda Porter (1957- )
button Cheryl Praeger (1948- )

Q

R

button Virginia Ragsdale (1870-1945)
button Helena Rasiowa (1917-1994)
button Marina Ratner (1938-2017 )
button Mary Pensworth Reagor (1945- )
button Mina Rees (1902-1997)
button Nancy Reid (1952- )
button Idun Reiten (1942- )
button Julia Bowman Robinson (1919-1985)
button Judith Roitman (1945- )
button Louise Johnson Rosenbaum (1908-1980)
button Mary Ross (1908-2008)
button Alice Roth (1905-1977)
button Linda Rothschild (1945- )
button Mary Ellen Rudin (1924-2013)

S

button Cora Ratto de Sadosky (1912-1981)
button Cora Sadosky (1940-2010)
button Judith D. Sally (1937- )
button Mildred Leonora Sanderson (1889-1914)
button Jane Cronin Scanlon (1922-2018)
button Alice T. Schafer (1915-2009)
button Doris Schattschneider (1939- )
button Ida May Schottenfels (1869-1942)
button Charlotte Angas Scott (1858-1931)
button Elizabeth Scott (1917-1988)
button Lesley Sibner (1934-2013)
button Lao Genevra Simons (1870-1949)
button Mary Emily Sinclair (1878-1955)
button Clara Eliza Smith (1865-1943)
button Karen E. Smith (1965- )
button Mary Fairfax Somerville (1780-1872)
button Pauline Sperry (1885-1967)
button Bhama Srinivasan (1935- )
button Elizabeth Stephansen (1872-1961)
button Dorothy Maharam Stone (1917-2014)
button Alicia Boole Stott (1860-1940)
button Lorna Mary Swain (1891-1936)

T

button Daina Taimina (1954- )
button Theano (6th Century B.C.)
button Olga Taussky-Todd (1906-1995)
button Jean Taylor (1944- )
button Abigail Thompson (1958- )
button Marian Marsh Torrey (1893-1971)
button Bird Margaret Turner (1877-1962)

U

button Karen Uhlenbeck (1942- )
button Anne Barbara Underhill (1920-2003)
button Nina Uraltseva (1935- )

V

button Argelia Velez-Rodriguez (1936- )
button Dorothy Vaughan (1920-2008)
button Roxana Hayward Vivian (1871-1961)

W

button Johanna Weber (1910-2014)
button Mary Catherine Bishop Weiss (1930-1966)
button Anna Pell Wheeler (1883-1966)
button Mary F. Wheeler (1938- )
button Sylvia Young Wiegand (1945- )
button Grace Alele Williams (1932- )
button Ruth Goulding Wood (1875-1939)
button Margaret Wright (1944- )
button Dorothy Maud Wrinch (1894-1976)
button Sijue Wu (1964- )

X

Y

button Anna Irwin Young (1873-1920)
button Grace Chisholm Young (1868-1944)
button Lai-Sang Young (1952- )

Z