Great Women Scientists in the World Who are Unknown and Unfamous...

Great Women Scientists in the World Who are Unknown and Unfamous...

 

The stigma about women in science persists, but each of the women in this list has directly contributed to the lexicon of modern life.

1.   Emmy Noether:

 

Emmy Noether is cited by Einstein and his contemporaries as the Athena of math, and a woman without whom modern mathematics and its teaching would be fundamentally different. Basically she is a German Mathematician..

Noether is responsible for abstract algebra. She completely rewrote the books on so many mathematical concepts that the adjective Noetherian is found in several different concentrations within mathematics. Her theorem, aptly dubbed “Noether’s Theorem,” yields fundamental laws such as the conservation of linear momentum and the conservation of energy. Even today, Noether’s work is used in the study of black holes, objects that were still science fiction for decades after her death.

 Noether is not simply the mother of modern mathematics because she was a prolific

revolutionary. She was the Giving Tree of mathematicians, allowing scholars to use her
work without credit. Because of her intellectual generosity, she is honorarily listed as a
coauthor of contemporary math articles—often in fields that have only a cursory
affiliation with her work.

2.   Ada King, Countess of Lovelace:

 

Punch cards and computational machines had been around since the turn of the 19th century, but by 1842, they were still clunky, specifically arithmetical computers. Babbage had worked on computation machines called difference engines, and had just proposed a new engine, called the Analytical Engine. Lovelace recognized the potential of Babbage’s engine went beyond simple or even complex mathematics, and devoted her to further Babbage’s work. While translating and extrapolating on an Italian article about the analytical engine, she wrote the first algorithms that would be considered a computer program.

It would be over a century before anyone recognized her notes for what they were, and Lovelace for what she was: the world’s first computer programmer. In 1953, as modern computer science was still in its larval stages, Lovelace’s notes were republished as homage to her contributions and to the progress made in the field.

 

                                                                                                                To be Continued in next blog…….