Augusta Ada Byron, contessa di Lovelace, meglio nota come Ada Lovelace (Londra, 10 dicembre 1815 – Londra, 27 novembre 1852), è stata una nobildonna e matematica britannica, nota soprattutto per il suo contributo alla macchina analitica ideata da Charles Babbage. Tra i suoi appunti sulla macchina di Babbage si rintraccia anche un algoritmo per generare i numeri di Bernoulli, considerato come il primo algoritmo espressamente inteso per essere elaborato da una macchina, tanto che Ada Lovelace è spesso ricordata come la prima programmatrice di computer al mondo, benché alcuni contestino tale affermazione.

Marie Curie (1867 – 1934), born Maria Salomea Sklodowska, was a Polish physicist, mathematician and chemist. Passionate about her studies since she was a child and gifted with a brilliant mind, in order to enroll in the degree course in physics and mathematics she was forced to leave her country of origin: in Poland at the time, controlled by tsarist Russia, women were not allowed to attend university. She graduated in 1894 from the Sorbonne, of which she became the first female lecturer in 1906. Thanks to her studies on radioactive substances she has revolutionized the natural sciences; she was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, and she is the only person in the world who was awarded two Nobel Prizes in different disciplines (Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 and Chemistry in 1911).