Medical
Who founded the Red Cross?
Clara Barton
Hint: She was a nun!
Mary Kenneth Keller
Who was the first woman in all of Europe to graduate with a degree in engineering?
Alice Perry
Who was the first prominent African American in NASA who helped with the first U.S. flight to space?
(Hint: Hidden Figures)
Katherine Johnson
Who was a famous Greek philosopher and astronomer located in Egypt?
Hypatia
Who was the first woman to get a medical degree?
Elizabeth Blackwell
Who was the first programmer of the Mark I computer?
Hint: She was a U.S. Navy Admiral!
Grace Hopper
Who was one of the founding members of the Women's Engineering Society?
Hint: She was also the first member of the Federation of Housebuilders!
Laura Wilsonn
Who was the first American woman to go to space?
Sally Ride
Who was the first person to get 2 Nobel Prizes?
Hint: Physics and Chemistry
Mary Curie
Whose cells are used to test cancer and disease treatment?
Henrietta Lacks
Who was the person who founded the Institute for Women in Technology?
Anita Borg
Who was the first woman to patent a bridge?
Sarah Guppy
Who was the first African American woman to go to space?
Mae Jemison
Who discovered the double helix structure of DNA?
Hint: Her work was stolen after she died
Rosalind Franklin
Who served as President of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association?
Hint: She's a trans cardiologist!
Rebecca Allison
Who was the first computer programmer?
Hint: She wrote the first computer algorithm
Ada Lovelace
Who was the first woman to get a degree in electrical engineering at MIT?
Edith Clarke
Who was the first African American woman mathematician at NASA?
Mary Jackson
Who was best known for rejecting sexual selection and her theory about social selection?
Hint: She's trans!
Joan Roughgarden
Who was the person who developed the technique of using human tissue instead of lab mice to test cancer treatments?
Jane C. Wright
Who helped develop the Acorn RISC Machine?
Hint: The ARM is one of the most successful IP cores!
Sophie Wilson
Who was the first female engineer to be hired by Facebook?
Ruchi Sanghvi
Who was the first female engineer at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics?
Kitty Joyner
Who developed a systematic method for producing drugs based on knowledge of biochemistry and diseases?
Gertrude Elion