Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850-1891) was the world’s first female professor of mathematics. She taught at Stockholm University, where she was awarded a Professorial Chair. Born in Russia, she entered into a ...

The first female professor of medicine in Britain and Ireland, from County Antrim, has been recognised with an Ulster History Circle blue plaque. The pioneering Dame Louise McIlroy was the first ...

Dame Louise served at a French camp hospital at the start of World War One The first female professor of medicine in Britain and Ireland, from County Antrim, has been recognised with an Ulster ...