The Untold Stories
Scotland's Women Inventors
Mathematicians, astronomers, virologists, surgeons — the women whose names belong on the wall.
Mary Somerville
1780–1872
Mathematician and astronomer; the word 'scientist' was coined for her.
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1857–1911
Catalogued thousands of stars; discovered the Horsehead Nebula.
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1930–2007
Discovered the first human coronavirus.
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1902–1979
Mathematician; the Gray graph is named for her.
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1864–1939
First woman awarded a doctorate from the University of Munich.
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b. 1943
Discovered the first radio pulsars.
Coming SoonValerie Hunter Gordon
1921–2016
Inventor of the disposable nappy.
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1903–1994
Wartime radar physicist.
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1891–1963
First female professor at a Scottish university.
Coming SoonElizabeth Fulhame
fl. 1780
Pioneer of catalysis and photochemistry.
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1828–1905
Philanthropist of women's education.
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1864–1917
Pioneer of women's medicine and wartime hospitals.
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1840–1912
Led the Edinburgh Seven; opened medicine to women.
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1857–1930
Collector and arranger of Hebridean folk song.
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contemporary
First to grow human eggs from precursor cells in the lab.
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