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| Margaret Cavendish - 1653 She shocked Europe by publishing a book of science poems. Society matrons dubbed her "Mad Madge." She wrote the first published science fantasy. |
Emilie du Chatelet Published a translation of Newton's Principia into French along with her own thoughts on gravity. Voltaire dubbed her "Lady Pom Pom Newton." |
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| A professor of physics in Italy supported by the Pope! She also had 12 children, and worked at home doing experiments there. | Mary Somerville, the Queen of 19th century science. Gifted in math, she became famous for her pop science books. Oxford named a college after her. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Passed Over for the Nobel Prize--> | |||||||||||||||||||