Who is she? Why, one of the people who first provided evidence for the existence of dark matter. Via Jennifer Ouellette, who has managed to provide a perfect Ada Lovelace Day post a couple of weeks early.
I might add that Jen, and the rest of her crew at Cocktail Physics, are all potential choices for your post.
If there will be a collection about women scientists for Ada Lovelace day, someone ought to do an essay on Lise Meitner. Rosalind Franklin and Jocelyn Bell are not the only women who should have shared a part of a Nobel Prize but did not.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lise_Meitner
From the wikipedia article:
“Meitner also first realized that Einstein’s famous equation, E = mc2, explained the source of the tremendous releases of energy seen in atomic decay, by the conversion of the mass-defect into energy.”
She realized this when trying to understand the results of the possible splitting of Uranium that Otto Hahn had communicated to her in a private letter in December 1938.
George