Famous Women in STEM
The first woman to win a Nobel Prize, and the first person to win Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields.
Who is Marie Sklodowska-Curie?
In Hidden Figures, Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson work at this American space agency.
What is NASA?
In The Big Bang Theory, this is Sheldon Cooper's profession.
What is a theoretical physicist?
In this decade, Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier published their landmark paper inventing Nobel prize winning CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing.
What are the 2010s?
A primatologist and anthropologist renowned for her groundbreaking long-term studies of wild chimpanzees in Tanzania.
Who is Jane Goodall?
What is the name of the metal used to make highly advanced weapons and technology in Black Panther.
What is vibranium?
In House, this is Dr. Gregory House's medical department and specialty.
What is diagnostic medicine or infectious disease?
In this decade, Marie Curie discovered polonium and radium.
What are the 1890s or 1900s?
The chemist whose X-ray diffraction images were vital to discovering the double helix structure of DNA.
Who is Rosalind Franklin
The is the name of fictional single-celled alien microorganism that stores immense amounts of energy, featured in a recent Ryan Gosling movie.
What is an astrophage?
Featured in The Last of Us, this fungus that manipulates the behaviour of infected insects in real life, is the cause of a zombie apocalypse.
What is ophiocordyceps/cordyceps.
In this decade, the famous antifungal medication Nystatin was developed by American microbiologist Elizabeth Lee Hazen and American chemist Rachel Fuller Brown. (Hint: Cinderella was premiered during this time)
What is the 1950s?
A NASA mathematician whose orbital mechanics and trajectory calculations were critical for Project Mercury and the Apollo 11 moon landing.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
This 2014 Christopher Nolan film features a fictional black hole called Gargantua, with its visual depiction informed by calculations from physicist Kip Thorne.
What is Interstellar?
This Netflix show, named after a theory predicting the movements of three celestial bodies (such as planets, stars, or moons).
What is Netflix's 3 Body Problem?
In this decade Margaret Hamilton invented the term "software engineering" and directed the programming division at the MIT laboratory which developed the Apollo 11’s flight software.
What is the 1960s?
This woman set multiple spaceflight records, including being the first woman to journey around the Moon during the Artemis II mission in April 2026.
Who is Christina Koch.
The British mathematician and codebreaker of the German Enigma Code in WWII is the subject of The Imitation Game?
Who is Alan Turing?
This is the name the chemical used that turned Walt's meth blue in the hit show Breaking Bad.
What is methylamine?
In this decade, Dr. Patricia Bath pioneered and invented the Laserphaco Probe for laser cataract surgery.
What are the 1980s?