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Biographies of computer scientists to create or improve[edit]

Donna Hudson - designing and implementing a system called EMERGE.
Christel Hamann - Took out a U.S. patent on a Calculating machine in 1903.
Christiana Newhaus - Patented an Abacus in 1890.
Lydia D. Myers - Patented an Abacus in 1895.
Mary E. Winter - Patented an Adding machiene in 1882.
Eidth Olson - Major player in the miniaturizing of computers. Career Inorganic Chemist. Devised photographic and lithopgraphic techniques for printed circuits.
Margaret Cavanaugh - Programmed Argonne's first scientific computer. (It had about 2 kilobytes of memory)!
Betty Holberton - Important in the Moore School Project (was Elizabeth "Betty" Holberton)
Betty Jennings - Important in the Moore School Project
Frances Spence - Important in the Moore School Project
Kay Mauchly - Important in the Moore School Project (Was Kathleen McNulty at the time). Designed necessary new hardware with Richard Clippinger and created modications for the ENIAC for it's original rudimentary storage capacity.
Marlyn Wescoff - Important in the Moore School Project
Marie Pape-Carpantier - Invented a boulier numérateur, an educational calculator that uses colored balls to make the calculations.
Ruth Teitelbaum - Important in the Moore School Project
Grace Hopper - Of her many contributions she standardized the programming languages for the US Navy and wrote the first compilier. Primary designer of COBOL programming language.
Thelma Estrin - Part of the group at the Institute for Advanced Studies that built computers. One of the IEEE's only female fellows. Huge impact on biomedical computing ventures (particularly as pertaining to the brain). Did research on the electrical activity of the brain.
Adele Goldstine - Important in the Moore School Project. Helped write ENIAC's documentation, was ENIAC's first programmer. Taught other women to program (directly or through a manual).
Betty Holberton - Important in the Moore School Project (was Elizabeth "Betty" Holberton)
Betty Jennings - Important in the Moore School Project
Frances Spence - Important in the Moore School Project
Kay Mauchly - Important in the Moore School Project (Was Kathleen McNulty at the time). Designed necessary new hardware with Richard Clippinger and created modications for the ENIAC for it's original rudimentary storage capacity.
Marlyn Wescoff - Important in the Moore School Project
Marie Pape-Carpantier - Invented a boulier numérateur, an educational calculator that uses colored balls to make the calculations.
Helen Alma Newton Turner (1908–1995), Australian geneticist and mathematician
Sarah Ann Douglas, pioneer in field of human-computer interaction, researcher at Xerox PARC; one of first women department heads at AAU institution
Joyce Currie Little
Doris R. Entwisle
Janet Abbate, researcher of computer science
Arianna W. Rosenbluth, who helped create/implement the Metropolis algorithm
Augusta H. Teller, who helped create/implement the Metropolis algorithm

Biographies of mathematicians to create or improve[edit]

Stephanie B. Alexander, U.S. mathematician, article is a US-mathematician-STUB
Elizabeth S. Allman, U.S. mathematician, article is a US-mathematician-STUB
Grace Andrews (mathematician), U.S. mathematician, article is a US-mathematician-STUB
Grace Marie Bareis (1875–1962), American mathematician, first women to receive math PhD from Ohio State
Marcy Barge, U.S. mathematician, article is a US-mathematician-STUB
Patricia E. Bauman, U.S. mathematician, article is a US-mathematician-STUB
Mildred Bennett (b. 1921), U.S. mathematician, second woman electrical engineer hired by Westinghouse
Joan Birman, U.S. mathematician, article is a US-mathematician-STUB
Dorothy Brady, U.S. mathematician, article is a US-mathematician-STUB
Vyjayanthi Chari, U.S. mathematician, article is a US-mathematician-STUB
Mei-Chu Chang, U.S. mathematician, 2017 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
Marion Cohen, U.S. mathematician, article is a US-mathematician-STUB
Teresa Cohen, U.S. mathematician, article is a US-mathematician-STUB
Donatella Danielli, U.S. mathematician, 2017 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
Laura DeMarco, U.S. mathematician, article is a US-mathematician-STUB
Mary P. Dolciani, U.S. mathematician, article is a US-mathematician-STUB
Kirsten Eisenträger, U.S. mathematician, 2017 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, article is a US-mathematician-STUB
Natalia Filatkina, German mathematician, shared the 2006 Sofia Kovalevskaya Award. de:Natalia Filatkina
Irene Fonseca, U.S. mathematician, article is a US-mathematician-STUB
Lorraine Foster, U.S. mathematician, article is a US-mathematician-STUB
Marguerite Frank, U.S. mathematician, article is a US-mathematician-STUB
Susan Friedlander, U.S. mathematician, article is a US-mathematician-STUB
Helen G. Grundman, U.S. mathematician, article is a US-mathematician-STUB
Jane M. Hawkins, U.S. mathematician, article is a US-mathematician-STUB
Rebecca A. Herb, U.S. mathematician, article is a US-mathematician-STUB
Patricia Hersh, U.S. mathematician, article is a US-mathematician-STUB
Eleanor Jones, U.S. mathematician, article is a US-mathematician-STUB
Kathryn Hess, U.S. born mathematician working in France, 2017 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
Cathy Kessel, U.S. mathematics educator, past-president of AWM
Ellen Kirkman, U.S. mathematician, article is a US-mathematician-STUB
Irena Lasiecka, U.S. mathematician, article is a US-mathematician-STUB
Marie Litzinger, U.S. mathematician, article is a US-mathematician-STUB
Susan Loepp, U.S. mathematician, article is a US-mathematician-STUB
Mayme Logsdon, U.S. mathematician, article is a US-mathematician-STUB
Judith Q. Longyear, U.S. mathematician, article is a US-mathematician-STUB
Irina Mitrea, U.S. mathematician, article is a US-mathematician-STUB
Irena Peeva, U.S. mathematician, article is a US-mathematician-STUB
Julia Pevtsova, Russian-born mathematician working in U.S., 2017 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, article is a US-mathematician-STUB
Jill Pipher, U.S. mathematician, article is a US-mathematician-STUB
Ami Radunskaya, U.S. mathematician, co-director of EDGE, president-elect of AWM, AMS Fellow Class of 2016
Marjorie Rice, U.S. mathematician, article is a US-mathematician-STUB
Catherine A. Roberts, U.S. mathematician, Executive Director of American Mathematical Society, Providence, Rhode Island
Karen Saxe, U.S. mathematician, Director of American Mathematical Society, Washington, D.C. office
Jane Cronin Scanlon, U.S. mathematician, article is a US-mathematician-STUB
Maria E. Schonbek, U.S. mathematician, article is a US-mathematician-STUB
Alice Silverberg, U.S. mathematician, article is a US-mathematician-STUB
Stephanie Singer, U.S. mathematician, article is a US-mathematician-STUB
J. Laurie Snell, U.S. mathematician, article is a US-mathematician-STUB
Irene Stegun, U.S. mathematician, article is a US-mathematician-STUB
Bonnie Stewart, U.S. mathematician, article is a US-mathematician-STUB
M. B. W. Tent, U.S. mathematician, article is a US-mathematician-STUB
Tatiana Toro, Columbian-American mathematician, 2017 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, article is a STUB
Dorothy Vaughan, U.S. mathematician, article is a US-mathematician-STUB
Marie A. Vitulli, U.S. mathematician, AWM/MAA Falconer Lecturer, AWM Service Award Recipient (January 2017), creator of Women in Math Project
Judy L. Walker, U.S. mathematician, article is a US-mathematician-STUB
Ruth J. Williams, U.S. mathematician, article is a US-mathematician-STUB

Thanks to WikiProject Women scientists, WikiProject Feminism, User:Gobonobo, and User:Dsp13 for their work to develop this list or lists this draws from.

Categories for existing articles[edit]

Association for Women in Mathematics[edit]

Louise Hay Award[edit]

See Louise Hay Award.

M. Gweneth Humphreys Award[edit]

See M. Gweneth Humphreys Award

AWM Service Award[edit]

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2017

Kathleen (Fowler) Kavanagh, Clarkson University
Michelle Manes, University of Hawaii
Maura Mast, Fordham University
Marie A. Vitulli, University of Oregon

2016

Heather Lewis, Nazareth College of Rochester
Heather Russell, University of Richmond
Rebecca Segal, Virginia Commonwealth University
Bettye Anne Case, Professor Emerita, Florida State University, AWM Life Time Service Award

2015

Irina Mitrea, Temple University
Kathryn Leonard, California State University Channel Island
Elebeoba E. May, University of Houston
Christina Sormani, City University of New York, Graduate Center and Lehman College

2014

Tai Melcher, University of Virginia
Katharine Ott, University of Kentucky

2013

Rebecca A. Herb, University of Maryland College Park
Marge Bayer, University of Kansas
Holly Gaff, Old Dominion University
Erica Voolich, Somerville High School, Massachusetts
Pao-sheng Hsu, University of Maine Orono
Rachel Kuske, University of British Columbia
Victoria Howle, Texas Tech University
Shari Moskow, Drexel University
Krystyna Kuperberg, Auburn University
Rebecca Goldin, George Mason University

Alice T. Schafer Prize[edit]

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1990 Linda Green and Elizabeth Wilmer
1991 Jeanne Nielsen Clelland
1992 Zvezdelina E. Stankova
1993 Catherine H. O'Neil and Dana Pascovici
1994 Jing Rebecca Li
1995 Ruth Britto-Pacumi
1996 Ioana Dumitriu
1997 no prize given
1998 Sharon Ann Lozano and Jessica A. Shepherd
1999 Caroline J. Klivans
2000 Mariana E. Campbell
2001 Jaclyn (Kohles) Anderson
2002 Kay Kirkpatrick and Melanie Wood
2003 Kate Gruher
2004 Kimberly Spears
2005 Melody Chan
2006 Alexandra Ovetsky
2007 Ana Caraiani
2008 Galyna Dobrovolska and Alison Miller
2009 Maria Monks
2010 Hannah Alpert and Charmaine Sia
2011 Sherry Gong
2012 Fan Wei
2013 MurphyKate Montee
2014 Sarah Peluse
2015 Sheela Davadas
2016 Mackenzie Semper
2017 Hannah Larson
2018 Libby Taylor

Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize[edit]

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Shabnam Akhtari, 2021-22
Julie Bergner, 2018-19
Julia Gordon, 2017-18
Pallavi Dani, 2016-17
Malabika Pramanik, 2015-16
Sema Salure, 2014-15
Megumi Haradi, 2013-14
Ling Long, 2012-13
Anna Mazzucato, 2011-12
Patricia Hersh, 2010-11
Maria Gordina, 2009-10
Irina Mitrea, 2008-09
Rebecca Goldin, 2007-08

AWM-Joan & Joseph Birman Research Prize in Topology and Geometry[edit]

page for this prize needs to be created

2017 Emmy Murphy, MIT
2015 J. Elisenda Grigsby, Boston College

AWM-Microsoft Research Prize in Algebra and Number Theory[edit]

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2018 Melanie Matchett Wood, University of Wisconcin-Madison
2016 Lauren Williams, University of California, Berkeley
2014 Sophie Morel, Princeton University

AWM-Sadosky Research Prize in Analysis[edit]

see Sadosky_Prize

AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecturer[edit]