Famous Female Scientists
A 2016 documentary focusing on 3 Black female NASA engineers- Katherine Goble Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson
Hidden Figures
The powerhouse of the cell
Mitochondrion
Common name of dihydrogen monoxide
Water
Formula for Pythagorean Theorem
a^2 + b^2 = c^2
Rectangles = squares?
Nope!
The first woman to earn a Nobel Prize
Marie Curie
Biggest bone in the human body
Femur
The heaviest element with stable isotopes; most radioactive elements decay to it
Lead
A 9 sided shape
Nonagon
Formula for Ohm’s law
Voltage= Current×Resistance
Rosalind Franklin’s discovery
Structure of DNA
The main difference between prokaryotes and eukaryotes
Prokaryotes don’t have a nucleus (or membrane-bound organelles)
An alkane with a chain of 5 carbons
Pentane
The name for 10^100
A googol
The number of triangular faces on an icosahedron
20
Advocated for the health of poor women and went on to found a medical school in England for women
Elizabeth Blackwell
The order of taxonomic rank, from least to most specific
Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
The closer an electron gets to a proton, the greater the force of attraction
Coulomb’s Law
The numerical value of tan(pi/3)
sqrt3
Number of terrestrial biomes
9 (Taiga, Temperate Rainforests, Temperate Seasonal Forests, Tropical Rainforests, Shrubland, Temperate Grassland, Savanna, Desert, and Tundra)
A modern scientist who studies dark matter, including “dark stars” in the universe
Katherine Freese
A type of gene regulation in bacteria in which usually repressed genes are activated in the presence of a ligand
Inducible operon
This equation balanced: _Al + _NH4ClO4 -> _Al2O3 + _AlCl3 + _NO + _H2O
3, 3, 1, 1, 3, 6
The integral of this function: 1/sqrt(8x-x^2)
arcsin((x-4)/4) + C
Intrinsic spin of a proton
1/2