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Women in Science: 100 years back -> 1918

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July 23, 1918  - Emmy Noether published her famous theorem that every differentiable symmetry of the action of a physical system has a corresponding conservation law.  https://www.sciencenews.org/article/emmy-noether-theorem-legacy-physics-math https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ6o1cDxV7o 1918  - Lina Stern who is best known for her pioneering work on the blood–brain barrier, was the first woman awarded professional rank at the University of Geneva, being a Professor of chemio-physiology, and researching cellular oxidation. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18421636 https://sanp.ch/resource/jf/journal/file/download/article/sanp/en/sanp.2010.02158/2010_04_035.pdf/ Stern-Gattiker Prize (https://www.samw.ch/en/Funding/Stern-Gattiker-Prize.html) In 2018, the SAMS has launched a new prize to recognize women in academic medicine and to motivate early-career female scientists. The prize is named after two women with distinguished medical careers: Lina Stern ,...