marie curie was also a bit of a chemisist, but that shouln't really matter i think. She is however, the most obvious choice, (~ there is much information about her)
it would be nice perhaps to investigate (emmy?) Noether's life, a
very important physicist and mathematician from about 1900. (see e.g
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~his...ther_Emmy.html )
or also nice is perhaps renata kallosh, a theoretical physicist.
http://www.witi.com/center/witimuseu...8/061898.shtml
Bo
