[Aki]

Who are some of the well-known females in the world of physics/ astronomy? It seems to me that most of them are guys...

[Bramski]

Check out these links -

http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/lists/86.html
http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/

[Aki]

wow, there's a lot of them! Now I have to pick one about write about her

[Bo]

what/why do you want to write about female physicists?

Bo

[lindagarrette]

Must be a school project. I recomment Gail Gulledge Hanson.

[Aki]

lol, yeah, lindagarrette is right.

I have Marie Curie in mind, but she's not really a physicist, is she? otherwise I'll think about doing Gail Gulledge Hanson, even though I don't have a clue who she is.

[Bo]

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

[sanctus]

Yeah, I agree with Bo. If you would do a research on Noether, then I would be interested if you put somewhere on the web to share it.

[Aki]

Bo, I think you got a good point, probably a bunch of people are going to pick Curie. Thanks for the links, I'm going to read them now and decide.

[Tormod]

No, no, Aki. Choose a more controversial figure - like Lise Meitner, who was completely ignored by the Nobel Committee who awared the Nobel Prize in physics to her colleague Otto Hahn - for HER discoveries.

http://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/meitner.html

and

http://www.users.bigpond.com/Sinclai...seMeitner.html

...or if you could write about an astronomr, Cecilia Payne would be a great choice. She was the one who discovered that hydrogen was the most abundant element in the universe, and that our sun had to contain huge amounts of it in order to work:

http://www.uuworld.org/2003/01/lookingback.html