In honor of Women’s History Month and the enduring impact of women in science, The Scientist invited readers to share the names of the female researchers who have inspired them most. From pioneering ...

The history of science has long been dominated by familiar male names, yet women have made extraordinary contributions that have fundamentally shaped our understanding of the world. Despite their ...

When the Eiffel Tower opened for the 1889 Exposition Universelle, its girders bore in gold lettering the names of scientists whom Gustave Eiffel said had honoured France since 1789.

In the 1920s, when quantum mechanics was young, physicists Jane Dewey and Laura Chalk performed some of the first experimental tests of the theory, based on a phenomenon called the Stark effect. Later ...

In The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science, author Dava Sobel celebrates the many women who came to Paris to work with Marie Curie after she won the 1903 ...

In the 1960s, a group of physicists and historians began a massive project meant to catalogue and record the history of quantum physics. It was called Sources for History of Quantum Physics (SHQP). As ...

Cristina Roccati graduated from the University of Bologna when few other Italian women earned degrees, and she taught physics for decades Manuela Callari This portrait of Cristina Roccati (left) is by ...

A list of 72 female scientists to be engraved on the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, has been prepared. According to Le Monde on the 26th, local time, the city of Paris received the candidate list from ...

In her groundbreaking trilogy, “Women Scientists in America,” she told the stories of numerous accomplished but largely invisible women. By Penelope Green Margaret W. Rossiter, a historian whose ...