-Since she joined her brother she got the opportunity to collaborate with her brother on astronomical projects. With this she accepted and worked night to night on projects.

Additional links
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/68126/8-stellar-facts-
about-most-accomplished-female-astronomer-youve-never-heard

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwiwi-zK7dmBAxUzrYkEHTewC-sQFnoECBIQAw&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.schoolsobservatory.org%2Flearn%2Fhistory%2Fbiographies%2Fherschel%23%3A~%3Atext%3DShe%2520learned%2520to%2520read%2520and%2Che%2520gave%2520to%2520her%2520brothers.%26text%3DWhen%2520Caroline%2520was%252022%252C%2520she%2Cwith%2520her%2520older%2520brother%252C%2520William.&usg=AOvVaw0q9hAHOH8V-2ICODB48Ao2&opi=89978449

- Was born into a middle class family.
- Pretended to be a man to go to university.
- Worked with Carl Gauss
Important achievements
- First women mathematician to win a prize in France.
- First women known who managed to make great strides in mathematics with no formal training. 
- Best known for proving the first case of Fermat Last theorem
- Became the first woman to win a prize from the Royal Academy

- https://www.gcsu.edu/sites/files/page-assets/node-808/attachments/kagele.pd 

Obstacles & Opportunities
- Her father,  (wealthy merchant), was unsupportive of her interest in mathematics at first.
- She was banned from Paris’ Revolutionary Ecole Polytechnique, but continued to sneak in to study there
- Her mother was the daughter of a goldsmith and was friends with enlightened thinkers, this gave her the opportunity to listen to their ideas and talk with them.
- A lot of professors helped in her studies, while several disrespected her for being female

-Married at 13 to a wealthy French lawyer named Antoine Lavoisier. 

-Began to learn English 

-Perusaded financiers to invest in her husband's work. 

Obstacles/opportunities:
-She is the assistant and colleague of her husband.
-Family was wealthy, she had a luxurious lifestyle. 
Barries/opportunities
-An accomplished artist and worked to fund, negotiate, and promote the discoveries of her husband

Important achievements:
-Named the element oxygen, but her husband got credit for it instead. 
-Hosted visitors at salons like Benjamin Franklin and James Watt. 
-Contributed thirteen drawings that showed all the equipment used by the Lavoisiers in their experiments

- Her early education was by tutors.
- Instructed by her brother.

- Conway was a philosopher.

- She grew up in the house now known as Kensington Palace.
- Husband owned one of the finest libraries.
- Taught by Henry More, by letter.

ACHIEVEMENTS
- She is known to be the author of a single treatise of philosophy.

OBSTACLES/OPPORTUNITIES
- Anne Conway married someone who supported her intellectual interests.
- She was granted multiple opportunities throughout her life due to her family’s position in society.
- She could not attend university because she was a woman.

TEA
Anne Conway's husband was wealthy, but never present. She took advantage of her situation by turning her mansion into a place for thinkers. Over this time, she developed a new lover named Henry More who was a philosopher at Cambridge.

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Important achievements:
- One of most important contributions to science was explanations of the concepts of energy and eagerly conservation
-Her biggest project though, was to translate Newtons Principia in French. (Newtons Principia- Principals of time, force, and motion that have guided the development of modern physical science.
-Her translation also had clarifications, notes and examples which helped French scientists understand and build upon Newtons ideas

 
Barrier or Obstacles/Opportunities faced:
- She was rejected by scholarly institutions and men from higher education in academic schools because she was a woman.
- She was denied many times to sit in the King’s library at the Louvre because she was a female
- She was denied the many educational opportunities men had

TEA:
-  A few years after she was married, she started a long affair with Voltaire.
-She helped Voltaire many times from being jailed.

Additional Links:
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Gabrielle-Emilie-Le-Tonnelier-de-Breteuil-Marquise-du-Chatelet

https://departments.kings.edu/womens_history/emilieduchat.html#:~:text=Émilie%20was%20rejected%20by%20scholarly,most%20of%20them%20were%20men.

https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200812/physicshistory.cfm

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/five-things-know-about-french-enlightenment-genius-emilie-du-chatelet-180967561/ 

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