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List Of Women Innovators And Inventors By Country
Women inventors have been historically rare in some geographic regions. For example, in the UK, only 33 of 4090 patents (less than 1%) issued between 1617 and 1816 named a female inventor. In the US, in 1954, only 1.5% of patents named a woman, compared with 10.9% in 2002.David Ghere, Fred M. B. Amram (2007). Inventing music education games. ''British Journal of Music Education'' 24(1): 55–75 Women's inventions have historically been concentrated in some areas, such as chemistry and education, and rare in others, such as physics, and electrical and mechanical engineering. Some names such as Marie Curie and Ada Lovelace are widely known, many other women have been active inventors and innovators in a wide range of interests and applications, contributing important developments to the world in which we live. The following is a list of notable women innovators and inventors displayed by country. Australia *Rose Cumming (1884–1968), innovative interior decoration *Sally Doming ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Curie C
Marie may refer to: People Name * Marie (given name) * Marie (Japanese given name) * Marie (murder victim), girl who was killed in Florida after being pushed in front of a moving vehicle in 1973 * Marie (died 1759), an enslaved Cree person in Trois-Rivières, New France * ''Marie'', Biblical reference to Holy Mary, mother of Jesus * Marie Curie, scientist Surname * Jean Gabriel Marie (other) * Peter Marié (1826–1903), American socialite from New York City, philanthropist, and collector of rare books and miniatures * Rose Marie (1923–2017), American actress and singer * Teena Marie (1956–2010), American singer, songwriter, and producer Places * Marie, Alpes-Maritimes, commune of the Alpes-Maritimes department, France * Lake Marie, Umpqua Lighthouse State Park, Winchester Bay, Oregon, U.S. * Marie, Arkansas, U.S. * Marie, West Virginia, U.S. Art, entertainment, and media Music * "Marie" (Cat Mother and the All Night Newsboys song), 1969 * "Marie" (Johnny Hallyda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Princess Stéphanie Of Belgium
Princess Stéphanie Clotilde Louise Herminie Marie Charlotte of Belgium (21 May 1864 – 23 August 1945) was a Belgian princess who became Crown Princess of Austria through marriage to Crown Prince Rudolf, heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Princess Stéphanie was the second daughter of King Leopold II of Belgium and Marie Henriette of Austria. She married in Vienna on 10 May 1881 Crown Prince Rudolf, son and heir of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria. They had one child, Archduchess Elisabeth Marie. Stéphanie's marriage quickly became fragile. Rudolf, depressed and disappointed by politics, had multiple extramarital affairs and contracted a venereal disease that he transmitted to his wife, rendering her unable to conceive again. In 1889 Rudolf and his mistress Mary Vetsera were found dead in an apparent murder-suicide pact at the imperial hunting lodge at Mayerling in the Vienna Woods. In 1900, Stéphanie married again, to Count Elemér Lónyay de Nagy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Zimmerman
Rachel Zimmerman Brachman (born Zimmerman; 1972) is a Canadian-born space scientist and inventor. She invented the "Blissymbol Printer" in 1984, making it simple for users with physical disabilities to communicate. A user can choose various Blissymbols to convey his or her thoughts and the printer translates those images to written text. Her invention was recognized worldwide and she has received several awards for her achievements. Rachel Zimmerman: Inventor of the Blissymbol Printer. Blissymbols were invented by Charles Bliss in the 1940s; however, it was only until the mid-1960s when people with disabilities started using Blissymbols to communicate, and it only became accessible until the 1980s. Blissymbols were traditionally used by having people pointing to a symbol that conveys what they are trying to say and then an assistant would ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine McCammon
Catherine Ann McCammon is a Canadian geoscientist who is employed by the University of Bayreuth. Her research focuses on surface and mantle processes, as well as the physics and chemistry of minerals. She is a Fellow of the European Association of Geochemistry and American Geophysical Union. In 2013, she was awarded the European Geosciences Union Robert Wilhelm Bunsen medal. She is the editor of the journal ''Physics and Chemistry of Minerals''. Early life and education McCammon attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for her undergraduate studies, where she majored in physics. She joined the American Geophysical Union as a member in 1978. She earned her doctorate at the Australian National University, where she studied the behaviour of iron oxides and sulphides. McCammon was a postdoctoral fellow with Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) at the University of Manitoba. Research and career In 1985, McCammon moved to the University of Briti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martha Matilda Harper
Martha Matilda Harper (September 10, 1857 – August 3, 1950) was an American businesswoman, Entrepreneurship, entrepreneur, and Invention, inventor who launched modern retail franchising and then built an international network of 500 franchising, franchised Beauty salon, hair salons that emphasized healthy hair care. Born in Canada, Harper was sent away by her father when she was seven to work as a Domestic worker, domestic servant. She worked in that profession for 25 years before she saved enough money to start working full-time producing a Hair conditioner, hair tonic she invented."Martha Matilda Harper" Women of the Hall. National Women's Hall of Fame. Retrieved 2010-02-10. The product, and the creation of special hair salons that utilized it, was successful. Harper began franchising the salon model to low-income wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maya Burhanpurkar
Maya Burhanpurkar (born February 14, 1999) is a Canadian researcher. Personal life Burhanpurkar was born in Orillia, Ontario, Canada and completed high school in 2016 at Barrie North Collegiate Institute. She is currently an undergraduate majoring in physics at Harvard College. She has been awarded a Rhodes scholarship to study Computer Science and the Philosophy of Physics at Oxford University. Career At the age of 10, Burhanpurkar built a microbiology lab in her family basement and began conducting scientific experiments after volunteering in a hospital in India. Two years later, she developed an intelligent-antibiotic which selectively kills pathogenic bacteria such as E-coli but preserves intestinal microbiota. When she was 13, she received the Platinum Award at the Canada-Wide Science Fair for her work on the cardiac and gastrointestinal safety of two Alzheimer's drugs. Burhanpurkar was inspired to study the safety of Alzheimer’s drugs after the death of her grandf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yvonne Brill
Yvonne Madelaine Brill (née Claeys; December 30, 1924 – March 27, 2013) was a Canadian American rocket and jet propulsion engineer. She is responsible for inventing the Electrothermal Hydrazine Thruster (EHT/Resistojet), a fuel-efficient rocket thruster that keeps today’s satellites in orbit, and holds a patent for its invention. During her career she was involved in a broad range of national space programs in the United States, including NASA and the International Maritime Satellite Organization.QMI AGENCY"Pioneer Canadian rocket scientist dead at age 88" ''The Toronto Sun'', March 27, 2013. Early life Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Yvonne Brill, is a first-generation Canadian, as her parents were immigrants from Belgium. She was inspired to attend school by Amelia Earhart, the first woman pilot to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. When she was young, her father encouraged her to open a shop in their hometown, while her high school science teacher told her that a woman w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LongPen
The LongPen is a remote signing device conceived of by writer Margaret Atwood in 2004 and debuted in 2006. It allows a person to remotely write in ink anywhere in the world via tablet PC and the Internet and a robotic hand. It also supports an audio and video conversation between the endpoints, such as a fan and author, while a book is being signed. The system was used by Conrad Black, who was under arrest, to "attend" a book signing event without leaving his home. See also *List of Canadian inventions and discoveries *Interactive whiteboard *Polygraph (duplicating device) *Autopen *Telautograph The telautograph is an analog precursor to the modern fax machine. It transmits electrical impulses recorded by potentiometers at the sending station to servomechanisms attached to a pen at the receiving station, thus reproducing at the receiving ..., another remote signing device, patented by Elisha Gray in 1888 References Pointing-device text input Computing output devices Marg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, and inventor. Since 1961, she has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of non-fiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight children's books, and two graphic novels, and a number of small press editions of both poetry and fiction. Atwood has won numerous awards and honors for her writing, including two Booker Prizes, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Governor General's Award, the Franz Kafka Prize, Princess of Asturias Awards, and the National Book Critics and PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Awards. A number of her works have been adapted for film and television. Atwood's works encompass a variety of themes including gender and identity, religion and myth, the power of language, climate change, and "power politics". Many of her poems are inspired by myths and fairy tales which interested her from a very early age. Oates, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suhayya Abu-Hakima
Suhayya "Sue" Abu-Hakima is a Canadian technology entrepreneur and inventor of artificial intelligence ( AI) applications for wireless communication and computer security. As of 2020, her company Amika Mobile has been known as Alstari Corporation as she exited her emergency and communications business to Genasys in October 2020. Since 2007, she had served as President and CEO of Amika Mobile Corporation; she similarly founded and served as President and CEO of AmikaNow! from 1998 to 2004. A frequent speaker on entrepreneurship, AI, security, messaging and wireless, she has published and presented more than 125 professional papers and holds 30 international patents in the fields of content analysis, messaging, and security. She has been an adjunct professor in the School of Information Technology and Engineering at the University of Ottawa and has mentored many high school, undergraduate, and graduate students in science and technology more commonly known as STEM now. She was name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosalyn Yalow
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (July 19, 1921 – May 30, 2011) was an American medical physicist, and a co-winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (together with Roger Guillemin and Andrew Schally) for development of the radioimmunoassay technique. She was the second woman (after Gerty Cori), and the first American-born woman, to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Biography Childhood Rosalyn Sussman Yalow was born in the Bronx, New York, the daughter of Clara (née Zipper) and Simon Sussman, and was raised in a Jewish household. She went to Walton High School (Bronx), New York City. After high school, she attended the all-female, tuition-free Hunter College, where her mother hoped she would learn to become a teacher. Instead, Yalow decided to study physics. College Yalow knew how to type, and was able to get a part-time position as a secretary to Dr. Rudolf Schoenheimer, a leading biochemist at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chu Ming Silveira
Chu Ming Silveira (; April 4, 1939 – June 18, 1997) was a Brazilian architect and designer, creator of the Orelhão telephone booth. Early life Chu Ming Silveira was born in Shanghai on April 4, 1941 to Chu Chen and Shui Young Queen. She was the second of four siblings. Her father was a civil engineer who served in Chiang Kai-Shek's Nationalist military against the Communists during the Chinese Civil War. After the Communist victory in 1949, her family faced violent persecution and repression for being on the Nationalists' side, which led her father to move the family to Hong Kong, where they stayed for a few months in hopes of eventually making it to America. In 1950, her family traveled from Hong Kong to Brazil on a three-month long voyage by ship. They initially arrived in Rio de Janeiro, then settled down in São Paulo, in the Bairro Pinheiros. Once in Brazil, Chu Chen and Shui Young Queen decided to baptize their children as Catholics with Western names. At the age of 9, C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
