Wikipedia:WikiProject Women's History/Kingston University 2013

Further information: wmuk:Kingston University Women in Science event

Wikimedia UK and Kingston University are running a Women in Science themed editing event on Monday 28 October in London.

Potential topics for the editathon

Articles to be created

• Ethel Bellamy (1881–1960), astronomical computer and seismologist
• Anne Beloff-Chain (1921–1991), biochemist
• Evelyn Mary Booth (1897-1988), botanist
• Jessie Hill Buchan (1848–1905), meteorologist
• Veronica Conroy Burns (1914-1998), curator of the Geological Museum, Trinity College, Dublin
• Marjorie Chandler (1897–1983), palaeobotanist
• Muriel Chapman (1894–1988), chemist
• Margaret Crosfield (1859–1952), geologist
• Una Fielding (1888–1969), neuroanatomist
• Margaret Fishenden (1889–1977), industrial researcher
• Mildred Gostling (1873–1962), chemist
• Jenny Graves, Australian biochemical geneticist
• Elizabeth Gray (1831–1924), fossil collector
• Mathilde Hertz (1891–1975), animal psychologist and sensory physiologist
• Hilda Ingold (1898–1988), chemist
• Maria Jacson (1755–1829), writer on botany
• Elizabeth Kent (1790–1861), botanist and writer
• Matilda Cullen Knowles (1864–1933), botanist
• Phebe Lankester (1825–1900), writer on botany and health
• May Leslie (1887–1937), chemist
• Gulielma Lister (1860–1949), mycologist and naturalist
• Jane Longstaff (1855–1935), biologist
• Elizabeth Macgregor (1920–2005), cytologist
• Doris Mackinnon (1883–1956), protozoologist
• Ida Maclean (1877–1944), biochemist
• Sarah Mawe (1767-1846), mineralogist and dealer in minerals
• Barbara Mawer (1936–2006), biochemist
• Mary Merrifield (1804–1889), writer on art and algologist
• Lady Anne Monson (c.1727–1776), botanist and collector of plants and insects, created at Lady Anne Monson
• Lady Charlotte Murchison (1788–1869), geologist
• Marion Newbigin (1869–1934), geographer and biologist
• Innes Pearse (1889–1978), medical practitioner and biologist
• Dorothea Pertz (1859–1939), botanist
• Christian Ramsay, Countess of Dalhousie (1786–1839), botanical collector
• Eleanor Reid (1860–1953), palaeobotanist
• Gertrude Maud Robinson (1886–1954), chemist
• Pamela Robinson (1919–1994), vertebrate palaeontologist
• Anna Russell (1807–1876), botanist
• Edith Saunders (1865–1945), botanist
• Lydia Shackleton (1828–1914), botanical artist
• Marion Delf-Smith (1883–1980), botanist
• Ethel Thomas (1876–1944), botanist
• Miriam Tildesley (1883–1979), anthropologist
• Lady Annie Purcell Walker (1871–1950), chemist
• Martha Whiteley (1866–1956), chemist
• Lilly Wigg (1749–1828), botanist
• Henrietta Wilson (1810–1863), botanist and writer
• Florence Yeldham (1877–1945), schoolteacher and historian of arithmetic

Other articles created

• Waltraud Falk (born 1930), German economist

Articles to be expanded or improved

• Women in computing
• Ruth Lynden-Bell
• Ann Dowling
• Lynn Gladden
• Dame Wendy Hall
• Sophie Wilson

Did You Know... nominations

• Template:Did you know nominations/Florence Yeldham
• Template:Did you know nominations/Lydia Shackleton
• Template:Did you know nominations/Charlotte Murchison

See also

• List of female Fellows of the Royal Society
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Women scientists/Worklist

Resources

• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Biographies
• Sections of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
• The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives from Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century - will be available on the day