Which is odd, because the first significant fictional mad scientist was a woman. Brian Aldiss ... was well-known for her work on “natural philosophy,” the pre-19th century phrase for the ...

How do you stop a mad scientist ... wrong end of a fight with a puma-woman. But all of these fictional comeuppances are proxies for our frustration with science’s potentially unchecked power.

When it comes to scientists ... feathers among those who believed women had no place in the scientific community. As a result, Cavendish was often called “Mad Madge.” But though Cavendish ...

Peep the eccentric behavior in this clip: Female mad scientist characters are hard to come by. The film “Birth/Rebirth” reimagines the “Frankenstein” story with a woman doctor who ...

In “The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science,” the former “S.N.L.” star “wanted to create a mad scientist whose highest goal was to respect and protect ...