Optics over time Women in Optics, Development & Education?

Our life is defined through light and optics by 2 fundamental concepts in science:-space and time- Until the Xth century, light was supposed to come from the eye. Ibn Al Haytham introduced an understanding of the behavior of light and the way images obtained in a camera obscura. He changed the dogma of vision: the sight is a result of light entering the eye from the world outside. Five centuries later we assist to the scientific revolution: Galileo with his telescope, the earth is no more the Centre of the universe and the authority in the observation of nature is shifted from human senses to instruments. With optics, light becomes the language of nature of atoms and molecules. Time scales varies from the very big with development of astronomical calendars (3100BC) to the femtosecond scale (in1980), to the very small, the scale of atoms and molecules in motion. What is the contribution over time of women in Optics, Development & Education?