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First woman to do the first circumnavigation of Earth
1817

Jeanne Baret

She did the first circumnavigation of Earth.

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First woman to write a computer program
1840

Ada Lovelace

She wrote the first published algorithm ever specifically tailored for implementation on a computer.

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French pioneer filmmaker
1896

Alice Guy-Blaché

She did the first narrative fiction film and to direct a film.

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First woman to win a Nobel Prize
1903

Marie Skłodowska Curie

She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and only woman to win twice, and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences.

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First Female Engineer in Europe

1912

Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu

First Female Engineer: Technischen Universität Berlin (Germany)

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First Female Engineer in SouthAmerica

1918

Elisa Bachofen

First Female Engineer: Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina)

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First Female Engineer in Spain

1929

María del Pilar Careaga Basabe

First Female Engineer: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain)

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Second Female Engineer in Spain
1949

Isabel de Portugal Trabal i Tallada

First Female Engineer: Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya (Spain)

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Third Female Engineer in Spain
1960

Laura Tremosa Bonavia

Second Female Engineer: Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya (Spain)

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First woman in space
1963

Valentina Tereshkova

First woman to have flown in space (Russia).

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Director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory
1969

Margaret Hamilton

She developed on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo space program (USA).

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Pioneer of Astronomy
1970

Vera Rubin

First woman to discover the dark matter (USA).

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Geologist
2020

Kathryn D. Sullivan

First woman to reach the deepest known point in the ocean and the first person to travel to both Challenger Deep and to space (USA).

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