Women Scientists Posters, Prints, & Photographs, “A...-”
notable and famous women scientists for social studies and science classrooms.

Maria Gaetana Agnesi
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

Mary Anning
Virginia Apgar

Maria Gaetana Agnesi
b. 5-16-1718; Milan, Italy
d. 1-9-1799

Maria Gaetana Agnesi was a child prodigy recognized as a mathematician, and philosopher, and linguist. She is credited with writing the first book discussing both differential and integral calculus and was an honorary member of the faculty at the University of Bologna.

Agnesi can also be considered an activist for her composing and delivering a speech in Latin on a woman's right to education at the age of nine.

A crater on Venus is named in her honor.

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
b. 6-9-1836; England
d. 12-17-1917

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, the first woman qualify in Britain as a doctor, was also the first woman mayor in England.

• Elizabeth Garrett Anderson - The "Women of Renown" Series
• Garrett Sisters

Mary Anning
b. 3-21-1799; Lyme Regis, Dorset, England
d. 3-9-1847; breast cancer

Fossil collector and dealer Mary Anning made important finds in the Jurassic age marine fossil beds near her home. Her contributions to palentology helped to change early 19th century scientific thought about prehistoric life though she was hindered because of her gender and working class background.

FYI - Mary's entire family was involved in the dangerous collection of fossils on the seaside cliffs, and they supported themselves by selling the fossils they found. Her little dog Tray died in a landslide.

Mary Anning quotes ~
• “The world has used me so unkindly, I fear it has made me suspicious of everyone.”
• “Perhaps you will laugh when I say that the death of my old faithful dog has quite upset me, the cliff that fell upon him and killed him in a moment before my eyes, and close to my feet ... it was but a moment between me and the same fate.”

• Mary Anning at Amazon

Virginia Apgar
b. 6-7-1909; Westfield, NJ
d. 8-7-1974; NYC

Virginia Apgar is best remembered as the developer of a method of assessing the health of newborn babies that has drastically reduced infant mortality over the world. She was also the founder of the field of neonatology (care of newborn infants) and a leader in the fields of anesthesiology and teratology (broadly the study of birth defects).

Virginia Apgar quote ~
• “Women are liberated from the time they leave the womb.”

Anna Atkins
née Children
b. 3-16-1799; Tonbridge, Kent, England
d. 6-9-1871; Halstead Place

Anna Atkins, a botanist and early photographer, used plants to make contact prints, or photograms, for the first book illustrated with photographs. Atkins used the cynotype process that gives a cyan-blue print, familiar as a blueprint.