Timeline
Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826 – 1898)
The name “Matilda Effect” comes from her. She was one of the first to denounce the erasure of women in history, particularly in science.
Marie Curie (1867 – 1934)
Discoveries: Research on radioactivity, double Nobel Prize (Physics in 1903, Chemistry in 1911).
Lise Meitner (1878 – 1968)
Contributed to the discovery of nuclear fission.
Chien-Shiung Wu (1912 – 1997)
Experimentally demonstrated the non-conservation of parity, a fundamental principle in physics.
Marthe Gautier (1910 – 2014)
Discovered the chromosomal origin of trisomy 21.
Rosalind Franklin (1920 – 1958)
Captured the double-helix structure of DNA using X-ray diffraction.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell (born 1943)
Discovered pulsars in 1967 during her PhD research.
Donna Strickland (born 1959)
Research on ultra-short laser pulses (CPA technique).
Katie Bouman (born 1989)
Led the development of the algorithm that produced the first image of a black hole.
Women in Tech and AI (21st century)
Still relevant today: their contributions to AI ethics and technological research are often minimized or appropriated.