I nominate Emmy Noether, whose work on the relationship between mathematical symmetry and conservation laws is still the heart of theoretical physics. http://e

I nominate Emmy Noether, whose work on the relationship between mathematical symmetry and conservation laws is still the heart of theoretical physics. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Noether http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Noether Hers is a remarkable story indeed.