List of women innovators and inventors by country

Women inventors have been historically rare in some geographic regions.

For example, in the UK, only 33 of 4090 patents (less than 1%) issued between 1617 and 1816 named a female inventor.

[1] Women's inventions have historically been concentrated in some areas, such as chemistry and education, and rare in others, such as physics, and electrical and mechanical engineering.

[1] Some names such as Marie Curie and Ada Lovelace are widely known, many other women have been active inventors and innovators in a wide range of interests and applications, contributing important developments to the world in which we live.

[2][3] The following is a list of notable women innovators and inventors displayed by country.

Marie Curie (1867–1934), pioneering research into radioactivity
Rosalyn Yalow, Canada, medical IT applications
Ida Tin, Denmark, menstruation app
Marie Marvingt, France, airplane skis
Ida Noddack, Germany, nuclear fission
Maria Telkes, Hungary, solar energy
Patrizia Caraveo, Italy, particle physics
Saskia Wieringa, Netherlands, gender relations
Marie Curie, radioactivity
Beletskaya, Russia, organometallic chemistry
Portrait of Ada Lovelace, mathematician, possibly by Alfred Edward Chalon
Patricia Bath, USA, medical devices
Patricia Billings, USA, building materials
Olga D. González-Sanabria
Margaret Knight with one of her many inventions
Hedy Lamarr, Inventor, 1939
Sybil Rock