But in a pinch, brilliant will do.
Poor Emmy...
Edmund Landau, when asked if he did not agree that Noether was an instance of a great woman mathematician: "Emmy is certainly a great mathematician; but that she is a woman, I cannot swear."
John Derbyshire's article about Emmy Noether
That's a woman?????
But-- she has sideburns that my Elvis impersonator husband would envy!
My God! It's John Denver! :-)