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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Williamina Fleming
1857–1911
Catalogued thousands of stars; discovered the Horsehead Nebula.
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Marion Gray
1902–1979
Mathematician; the Gray graph is named for her.
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Maria Gordon (Ogilvie)
1864–1939
First woman awarded a doctorate from the University of Munich.
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Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell
b. 1943
Discovered the first radio pulsars.
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Valerie Hunter Gordon
1921–2016
Inventor of the disposable nappy.
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Dr Marion Ross
1903–1994
Wartime radar physicist.
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Dr Margaret Fairlie
1891–1963
First female professor at a Scottish university.
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Elizabeth Fulhame
fl. 1780
Pioneer of catalysis and photochemistry.
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Isabella Elder
1828–1905
Philanthropist of women's education.
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Prof. Evelyn Telfer
contemporary
First to grow human eggs from precursor cells in the lab.
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