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Hypatia of Alexandria (ca. 355-415 or 416) : icon of mathematics in late antiquity -- Hildegard of Bingen (ca. 1098-1179) : building bridges between mysticism and science -- Laura Bassi (1711-1778) : the world's first female university professor -- Émilie du Châtelet (1706-1749) : mastermind of the early enlightenment -- Sophie Germain (1776-1831) : the greatest mathematician in France -- Caroline Herschel (1750-1848) : the great astronomer in her brother's shadow -- Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) : inventor of computer algorithms -- Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850-1891) : an irrepressible Russian mathematician -- Marie Curie (1867-1934) : pioneer of nuclear physics -- Lise Meitner (1878-1968) : discoverer of nuclear fission -- Emmy Noether (1882-1935) : the most important mathematician of all time -- Grete Hermann (1901-1984) : philosopher of quantum physics -- Chien-Shiung Wu (1912-1997) : queen of experimental nuclear research -- Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958) : the woman next to Watson and Crick -- Jane Goodall (*1934) : the great lady of primate research -- Jocelyn Bell Burnell (*1943) : Our guide to a new universe -- Lisa Randell (*1962) : high-flyer in theoretical physics today -- Maryam Mirzakhani (1977-2017) : the first female recipient of the Fields Medal.