VERSION|0.5.1|NAME|Matt Westwood|DATE|1378807121|CONTENT|The Curie, Curium and Meitnerium, after Marie Curie and Lise Meitner.

Let me add Sophie Germain to the above list, who had to disguise her gender under the alias &quot;Monsieur Leblanc&quot; when she introduced herself to Gauss.

In shamefully recent times, women have been forbidden from taking up positions of authority in many universities. My particular field of interest being mathematics, I also present for your delectation:

Lilian R. Lieber, who wrote copious works of popularisation in the early-to-mid C20 but despite a long career at Long Island University, very little about her is known.

Sofia Kovalevskaya, who was actively discriminated against because of her gender, and who actually had to get married in order to be [i]legally allowed[/i] to leave home to go to University in the first place.

On the other hand, Maria Gaetana Agnesi was an 18th century mathematician, linguist and philosopher about whom one does not hear about such discrimination.|EMAIL|prime.mover@proofwiki.org|IP-ADDRESS|81.142.211.61|MODERATIONFLAG|