Generation after generation, women have advanced science from the shadows. This timeline invites you to discover the so-called “Matildas”—pioneers made invisible, yet essential to scientific history.
Émilie du Châtelet
1706 – 1749
Filed(s) : physics, mathematics
Caroline Herschel
1750 – 1848
Filed(s) : astrology
Ada Lovelace
1815 – 1852
Filed(s) : mathematics, informatics
Rosalind Franklin
1920 – 1958
Filed(s) : molecular biology
Vera Rubin
1928 – 2016
Filed(s) : astrophysics
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
1943 - ...
Filed(s) : astrophysics