Maria Wincklelmann Kirch

Maria Wincklelmann Kirch

Maria Winckelmann was a gifted German astronomer and the first woman to discover a comet. Even though her husband originally took credit for the discovery, he later admitted that she was the actual discoverer of the comet.

Irène Joliot-Curie

Irène Joliot-Curie

A French chemist and physicist who had a major impact on the field of chemistry, Marie was awarded (jointly with her husband) the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935.