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Women scientists

Women scientists from antiquity to the present.

 

In French

  • Bertrand, A. Les Naturalistes artistes : ces voyageurs dessinateurs. In Le Nièrson, 148, 2020, p. 26-29 [Maria Sybilla Merian] [PS5934]
  • Demeure, E. Julia Anna Gardner, une femme engagée. EchoSciences Grenoble, le 17 mars 2020, https://www.echosciences-grenoble.fr/articles/julia-anna-gardner-une-femme-engagee
  • Goodall, J. Les chimpanzés et moi. Stock, 1981. [A5934]
  • Lawalrée, A. et al. Anne-Marie Libert (1782-1865) : biographie, généalogie, bibliographie. [S.n.], 1965. [B51101]
  • Lortet, P. et al. Les promenades botaniques de Clémence Lortet, née Richard (1772-1835). In Bulletin de la Société linnéenne de Lyon, 87/7-8, 2018, p. 199-254 [P4212]
  • Paulme, D. Mary Kingsley (1862-1900). In Gradhiva : revue d'histoire et d'archives de l'anthropologie, 10, 1991, p. 85-88. Disponible en ligne : https://doi.org/10.3406/gradh.1991.1394
  • Ruwet, J.-C. Hommage à Dian Fossey: du mythe de King-Kong à nos cousins les gorilles. In Cahiers d'ethologie appliquée, 6/2, 1986, p. 225-298 [P6179]

 

In English 

  • [S.n.] Women and science. Office for Official Publication of the European Communities, s.d. [R2297]
  • Buckland, A. Women Geologists 1780-1840: Re-reading Charlotte Murchison. In A. Arnonova et al. (eds), Handbook of the Historiography of the Eart and Environemental Sciences, Springer, 2025, 34 p. Available online : https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40799-4_7
  • Brown, P.S. Early women ichthyologists. In Environmental biology of fishes, 41(1-4), 1994, p. 25-26 [P2807]
  • Campbell, K.E. Papers in avian paleontology honoring Hildegarde Howard. In Contributions in science, 130, 1980, 160 p. [P4944]
  • Chauhan, P.R. & Patnaik, R. Gudrun Corvinus (1932-2006) - Pioneering paleoanthropologist. In Quaternary International, 192/1, 2008, p. 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2007.11.023
  • Cifelli, R.L. Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska (1925-2015). In Nature, 520, 2015, p. 158. [P1158] Available online : https://www.nature.com/articles/520158a
  • Cleevely, R.J. et al. Mrs Elizabeth Gray (1831-1924) : a passion for fossils. In Bulletin of the British Museum (Historical series), 17/2, 1989, p. 167-258 [P1510]
  • Cofano, A. & De Ceglie, E. Travels with Lyell. Mary Horner's "Hidden" Contribution to Early Nineteenth-Century Geology. In Journal of Geoethics and Social Geosciences, 3 (special issue), 2025, 20 p. 
  • Creese, M.R.S. & Creese, T.M. British women who contributed to research in the geological sciences in the nineteenth century. In Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 117, 2006, p. 53-83. [OFx]
  • Desmond, C.J. Mary Leakey : the international archaeologist from Africa. In Kaupia Darmstaedter Beitraege zur Naturgeschichte, 6, 1996, p. 1-5 [P6714]
  • Eldredge, N. Elisabeth Vrba obituary: palaeontologist who solved a problem that vexed Darwin. In Nature, vol. 639, 2025, p. 570. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-00778-w https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00778-w
  • Falcon-Lang, H. Marie Stopes : passionate about palaeobotany. In Geology Today, 24/4, 2008, p. 132-136. [PG31588]
  • Geological Society (The). Charlotte Murchison née Hugonin  (1788-1869), fossil collector and artist. The Geological Society (s.d.) https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/the-library/online-exhibitions/women-and-geology/charlotte-murchison/
  • Gregg, T. G. Among the great apes. In Lithuanian Heritage, november/december 1998, p. 12-15 & 29. Available online : https://www.draugas.org/extracts/bgaldikas.pdf
  • Johnson, B.A. Women in geology : who are we, where we come from, and where are we going? The Geological Society of America, 2018. [P3513]
  • Kölbl-Ebert, M. Barbara Marchioness of Hastings (1810-1858) - Fossil collector and 'lady geologist'. In Earth Sciences History, 23/1, 2004, p. 75-87. (on demand)
  • Kölbl-Ebert, M. Mary Buckland (née Morland) 1797-1857. In Earth Science History, 16/1, 1997, p. 33-38. (on demand)
  • Marche, T. Orra White Hitchcock: a virtuous woman. In Marilyn Zurmuehlen Working Papers in Education, 10(1), 1991, p. 50-52. (on demand)
  • Martin, P. Lives with science profiles of Senior New Zealand Women in Science. Museum of New Zealand, 1993 [B60313]
  • Mateos, R.M. & Ruiz-Constán, A. GEAS women who study the earth. ASGMI, 2021. [C40494]
  • Mitchell, J.H. The mothers of conservation. In Sanctuary : the journal of the Massachusetts Audubon Society, Centennial issue, 1996, 20 p. [voir P6178] 
  • Mroske, S. & May, T.W. Naming names: the first women taxonomists in mycology. In Studies in mycology, 89, 2018, p. 63-87. Available online : https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6002341/pdf/main.pdf
  • North, G.W. Marie Tharp: The lady who showed us the ocean floors. In Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 35, 2010, p. 881-886. [OFx]
  • Pearson, T.G. Women and the birds. In Circular of the National Association of Audubon Societies, 3, s.d. [à vérifier]
  • Pilbeam, D. Mary Douglas Leakey (1913-1996). In American Anthropologist, 100(4), 1998(1999), p. 988-990 [P1024]
  • Schiebinger, L. Gendered innovations in science and engineering. Stanford University Press, 2008. [C33568]
  • Sinclair, G.W. Memorial to Alice E. Wilson (1881-1964). In GSA Bulletin, 77(11), 1966, p. 215-218. [P4549]
  • Sperling, L. Partners in selection bean breaders and women bean experts in Rwanda. CGIAR Gender Program, 1994. [R254]
  • Thode, S. Orra White Hitchcock (1796-1863): an Amherst woman of art and science. In Archives of Natural History, vol. 39/1, 2012, p. 184-185. Available online : https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/epub/10.3366/anh.2012.0084
  • Torrens, H. Mary Anning (1799-1847) of Lyme: the greatest fossilist of the world ever knew. In British Journal for the History of Science, 28(3), 1995, p. 257-284. Available online : https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007087400033161
  • Vincent, P. et al Mary Anning's legacy to French vertebrate palaeontology. In Geological Magazine, 2013, 14 p. [P4362]
  • Whitlock, C. Estella Bergere Leopold (1927-2024), passionate environmentalist who traced changing ecosystems. In Nature, 628, 8006, 2024, p. 32. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-00905-z https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00905-z
  • Wilson, D. Julia Anna Gardner (1882-1960). In Nautilus, 75(3), 1961-1962, p. 122-123. [P4777]

 

In Dutch 

  • ​Stuldreher-Nienhuis, J. Verborgen paradijzen : het leven en de werken van Maria Sibylla Merian 1647-1717. Van Loghum Slaterus, 1944 [S612]

 

In other languages 

  • Castaño, F. & Apesteguía, S. Annie Dhondt, los bivalvos del Cretácico. In Castaño, F. & Apesteguía, S. Mujeres de las pierdas : breves biografías de algunas geólogas y paleontólogas que nos precedieron. Azara, 2023, p. 214-215. 
  • Castaño, F. & Apesteguía, S. Mujeres de las pierdas : breves biografías de algunas geólogas y paleontólogas que nos precedieron. Azara, 2023. Available online : https://fundacionazara.org.ar/img/libros/mujeres-de-las-piedras.pdf
  • Stibral, K. Eine Gebirglerin und die Wissenschaft - Josephine Kablik als prominente Wissenschaftlerin des Riesengebirges. In Góry Literature Kultura, 17, 2024, p. 23-36. Available online : https://czasopisma.uwr.edu.pl/glk/article/view/17584 [Josefína Kablíková, née Ettel, 1787-1863]
  • Wettengl, K. Maria Sybilla Merian und die Frankfurter Naturalienkabinette des 18. Jahrhunderts. Senckenberg Forschungsintitut und Naturmuseum, 2003.