International Day of Women and Girls in Science Timeline

December 22, 2015

UN Resolution Adopted

The General Assembly of the United Nations adopts a resolution to make February 11 of every year the International day of of Girl and Women in Science.

1903

First Nobel Prize to a Woman

Physicist Marie Curie becomes the first women to win Nobel Prize

2700 BC

First Woman Scientist

Merit-Ptah had the words "chief physician" inscribed on her tomb