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List of women innovators and inventors by country

Women inventors have been historically rare in some geographic regions. For example, in the UK, only 33 of 4090 patents (less than 1%) issued between 1617 and 1816 named a female inventor.[1] In the US, in 1954, only 1.5% of patents named a woman, compared with 10.9% in 2002.[1] Women's inventions have historically been concentrated in some areas, such as chemistry and education, and rare in others, such as physics, and electrical and mechanical engineering.[1] Some names such as Marie Curie and Ada Lovelace are widely known, many other women have been active inventors and innovators in a wide range of interests and applications, contributing important developments to the world in which we live.[2][3]

Marie Curie (1867–1934), pioneering research into radioactivity

The following is a list of notable women innovators and inventors displayed by country.

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Rosalyn Yalow, Canada, medical IT applications

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Ida Tin, Denmark, menstruation app

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Marie Marvingt, France, airplane skis


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Ida Noddack, Germany, nuclear fission

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Maria Telkes, Hungary, solar energy

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Patrizia Caraveo, Italy, particle physics

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Saskia Wieringa, Netherlands, gender relations

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  • Omowunmi Sadik (born 1964), microelectrode sensing, environmental applications

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    Marie Curie, radioactivity
    Marie Curie (1867–1934), radioactivity

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Beletskaya, Russia, organometallic chemistry

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Portrait of Ada Lovelace, mathematician, possibly by Alfred Edward Chalon

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Patricia Bath, USA, medical devices
 
Patricia Billings, USA, building materials
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Olga D. González-Sanabria
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Margaret Knight with one of her many inventions
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Hedy Lamarr, Inventor, 1939
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Sybil Rock
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References edit

  1. ^ a b c David Ghere, Fred M. B. Amram (2007). Inventing music education games. British Journal of Music Education 24(1): 55–75 doi:10.1017/S0265051706007224
  2. ^ "Scientists and inventors: the women who changed the world". Iberdrola. Retrieved 9 May 2022.
  3. ^ "Women of Invention: Women Inventors and Patent Holders". Library of Congress: Science Reference Guides. Retrieved 9 May 2022.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Women inventors (8 October 2021), European Patent Office (accessed 9 May 2022)
  5. ^ a b c d e Carmen Borca-Carrillo (31 March 2022). Five Women Inventors You Didn't Learn About in History Class. Smithsonian (accessed 9 May 2022)
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