In recent years, the efforts to recognize and develop the work of women in the sciences have brought to the fore a number of important scientists who a mere fifty years ago may have been left largely unknown, whose work may have been unrecognized or ascribed to another, or whose talents may have been discouraged – or even inhibited – from being developed. And with this, a number of other women whose accomplishments in the past have begun to receive their justly deserved and long overdue recognition.
