Amalie Emmy Noether Beatrice Tinsley Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Florence Jessie MacWilliams Henrietta Swan Leavitt Marie Skoldowska Curie Rosalind Franklin Maria Goeppert Mayer Edavaleth Kakkat Janaki Ammal Grace Murray Hopper Sonya Krukovskaya Barbara McClintock Biographical notes that have appeared in the Young World (The Hindu) (a) Sophie Germain (b) Gabrielle-Emilie le Tonnelier de Breteuil (c) Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya (d) Augusta Ada Byron (e) Rachel Carson (f)   Mary Somerville (g) Margaret Mead (h) Caroline Herschel Biographies from other sources Gigliola Staffilani (www.boston.com)