Time travelWhat would science be without these women?
To mark International Women's Day, we went in search of traces of women in history whose research, developments and discoveries still enrich our lives today.
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Ilse Knott-Ter Meer (1899-1996) graduated from the Technical University of Munich in 1924 as Germany's first female engineer. In 1960, she and five other female engineers founded a technical committee within the VDI to bring women closer to technology.