Science
| Name | Life | Comments | Diagnosis | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mary Anning | (1799–1847) | English fossil collector and paleontologist from Lyme Regis, Dorset, England; subject of the book Mary Anning of Lyme Regis by Crispin Tickell; died at age 48 | diagnosed in 1845 at age 46 | |
| Mary Astell | (1666–1731) | English philosopher and feminist writer; died at age 65 | diagnosed in 1731 at age 65 | |
| Rachel Carson | (1907–1964) | American environmentalist and author (Silent Spring); died at age 56 | diagnosed in 1960 at age 53 | |
| Mary Culpeper | (16?? - 1635) | mother of English botanist, herbalist, physician, and astrologer Nicholas Culpeper | ||
| Sophie Germain | (1776–1831) | French mathematician; died at age 55 | ||
| Shirley Glass | (19?? - 19??) | psychotherapist and author of Not Just Friends and mother of public radio personality Ira Glass; died at age 67 | ||
| Jerri Nielsen | (1952–2009) | American physician who famously treated herself for breast cancer while stuck in the South Pole after discovering a lump on her breast, as depicted in the movie Ice Bound | diagnosed in 1999 at age 47 | |
| Edith Pechey | (1845–1908) | aka Mary Edith Pechey-Phipson; one of the first British female physicians, worked in India for 20 years, and was a women's rights activist; died at age 63 | diagnosed in 1907 at age 62 | |
| Marjorie Shostak | (1945–1996) | American anthropologist; died at age 51 | diagnosed in 1989 at age 44 | , |
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Famous quotes containing the word science:
“May we not assure ourselves that whatever woman’s thought and study shall embrace will thereby receive a new inspiration, that she will save science from materialism, and art from a gross realism; that the “eternal womanly shall lead upward and onward”?”
—Louisa Parsons Hopkins, U.S. scientist and author. As quoted in The Fair Women, ch. 16, by Jeanne Madeline Weimann (1981)
“All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us.... This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one’s brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.”
—Roger Bacon (c. 1214–c. 1294)
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—Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (1842–1911)