Ada Lovelace
First computer algorithm
Considered the first programmer in history, she wrote the first algorithm intended to be executed by a machine.
These extraordinary women scientists whose contributions have been minimized or attributed to others
Considered the first programmer in history, she wrote the first algorithm intended to be executed by a machine.
An Austro-Swedish physicist, she discovered nuclear fission but the Nobel Prize was awarded only to her colleague Otto Hahn.
A British-American astronomer, she discovered that stars are mainly composed of hydrogen and helium.
A Chinese-American physicist, she conducted the experiment demonstrating parity violation, but only her male colleagues received the Nobel Prize.
Her X-ray crystallography work was essential to discovering the structure of DNA.
An American geneticist, she discovered that sex is determined by chromosomes (X and Y).
A British astrophysicist, she discovered pulsars during her thesis, but the Nobel Prize was awarded to her thesis supervisor.