Taking Up Space
A "human computer", her calculations were critical in the success of NASA's first crewed spaceflights, and she was portrayed by Taraji P. Henson in the movie Hidden Figures
Who is Katherine Johnson?
The "Matilda Effect" describes the bias against acknowledging female scientists' contributions, with credit instead going to these clowns
Who are men?
Shuri is the chief scientist and princess of this fictional country in the MCU
What is Wakanda?
Famous British primatologist, known particularly for her expertise on chimpanzees as well as her activism
Who is Jane Goodall?
A member of the Class of '01, Professor of Engineering & Physics, Dean of the College, and well-known man of the people
Who is Rashid Zia?
She was the first Black woman in space, and she also guest starred on a episode of Star Trek: TNG
Who is Mae Jemison?
Her work led to the Nobel-prize-winning discovery of DNA's double helix structure, but she was not acknowledged for her contributions until after her death
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
Dr. Ellie Sattler is a paleobotanist played by Laura Dern who successfully fights off one of these large reptiles in Jurassic Park
What is a T Rex?
The first woman to win a Nobel prize, and only woman to have won two Nobel prizes, her first was in physics and her second was in chemistry
Who is Marie Curie?
The number of floors in the SciLi, said to correspond to the pH scale
What is 14?
She was the first American woman to fly in space, as well as the first queer astronaut, and she had a Ph.D. in physics , goals honestly
Who is Sally Ride?
The only woman in her Math and Physics program at Zurich Polytechnic, she was also Einstein's first wife and a likely significant contributor to his work
Who is Mileva Maric?
Neuroscientist and major character on CBS's the Big Bang Theory
Who is Amy Farrah Fowler?
Namesake of a famous theorem of symmetries as well as an influential contributor to the field of abstract algebra
Who is Emmy Noether?
In this year, Barus and Holley was official dedicated
What is 1965?
She was the first woman to fly in space, for 3 days on the Vostok 6 capsule
Who is Valentina Tereshkova?
An astrophysicist who discovered the first radio pulsars as well as the second female recipient of the Copley medal (although she did not share in the Nobel Prize awarded for the discovery)
Who is Jocelyn Bell Burnell?
In this aptly-titled movie and its subsequent franchise, Ellen Ripley is an engineer who saves humanity from a deadly extraterrestrial horror
What is Alien?
A movie star in the 30s and 40s, her invention of a frequency-hopping signal would later make Bluetooth and Wi-Fi possible
Who is Hedy Lamarr?
The Pixar movie which features a character named after this CS 15 prof and pioneer in computer graphics Andy van Dam, who taught many of the filmmakers
What is Toy Story?
She holds the American record for most days spent in space, currently at 665 total days
Who is Peggy Whitson?
She was a groundbreaking Chinese American particle physicist who created an experiment that disproved the law of parity (so of course her male collaborators won the Nobel Prize!)
Who is Chien Shiung-Wu?
This surgeon and medical researcher won a (fictional) Harper Avery award for pioneering an abdominal wall transplant surgery at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital
Who is Meredith Grey?
This book written by marine biologist Rachel Carson led to the banning of pesticide DDT
What is Silent Spring?
This student group launched Brown's first nanosatellite into space in 2018