For me, the knowledge that Einstein's papers were first published under his wife's name is startling. The author of the article notes that after their divorce, he didn't make any other major findings.

thanks, Kat and John, I never knew either that the first computer programmer was a woman. Galileo's daughter again sounds so remarkable. While I'm inspired by this info, my brain was mathematically deprogrammed when I was about 10, and has never recovered.

The information about Galileo's daughter is fascinating - a scholalrly, cloistered religious woman devoted to a man whose scientific exploration challenged everything sthat uphelp her life.