On Jane Coe, 17th century printer.
October 08, 2011
On Jane Coe, 17th century printer.
Professor Karen Spärck Jones (d. 2007) - significant contributions to natural language processing, machine translation, and search
Lucy Wills was the haematologist who discovered folate, publishing reports of her studies into ‘anaemia of pregnancy’ in the Indian Journal of Medical Research.
Delia Derbyshire, electronic music pioneer, creator of the Dr Who theme tune. (A post from last year’s ALD, but too good to miss.)
Chien-Shiung Wu (1912-1997), Chinese-born American physicist
Dr. Sandra K. Johnson: Parallel processing expert and first African-American woman electrical engineering PhD in the U.S.
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On the mathematician Emmy Noether (1882-1935).