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if we are talking about female mathematicians don't forget Emmy Noether: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Noether

She's one of the few true aliens I regard as up there with von Neumann and Einstein, who have some kind of ridiculous direct line of communication with the fabric of reality.

You're doing a bit of a disservice to Newton and Maxwell there, surely. And lots of Einstein's work was derivative of others.

Special Relativity was completely ripped off from Henri Poincaré and Hendrik Lorentz (but then they were not German and the physics establishment was dominated by Germans at the time).

Einstein's 1921 Nobel prize pointedly ignores Relativity and was awarded for his work on the photoelectric effect, a backhanded slap if there were none.

We are talking about a migrant Jewish female mathematician who was discriminated against trying to start a career in the USA in mid-1940s.

Emmy Noether had a comparable background and had her problems with academia, too

Yes, Emmy Noether was a pure genius (one of the greatest mathematician of all time), and was never named full professor (even though she had Hilbert support).

Who did not reshape mathematics, unlike Emmy Noether.

Yes. When I read the headline, I thought it was going to be about Noether. Even then, I'd argue she reshaped physics, not mathematics itself, unlike, say, Galois or Gödel.

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