Quotes
This woman said, "Don't let others discourage you or tell you that you can't do it. In my day I was told women didn't go into chemistry. I saw no reason why we couldn't."
Gertrude Elion
This woman was a Navy admiral and received the defense distinguished service medal.
Grace Hopper
This woman, in addition to being an inventor, was a film actress and has a star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Hedy Lamarr
This woman died in 1958, and was therefore not awarded the Nobel Prize for her contribution to DNA structure.
Rosalind Franklin
This woman graduated from West Virginia State College, where she majored in math and French, at age 18.
Katherine Johnson
This woman said, "When you love science, all you really want is to keep working"
Maria Goeppert-Mayer
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) was passed in response to this woman's work.
Rachel Carson
This woman once lectured in a nightgown when her luggage was lost.
Rita Levi-Montalcini
This science power couple was award the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1947.
Gerty and Carl Cori.
This woman studied chemistry at the University of Washing and later earned her master's degree from the Univesity of Hawaii.
Alice Ball
This woman said, "The main stumbling block in the way of any progress is and always has been unimpeachable tradition."
Chien-Shiung Wu
This woman was an Italian senator and neurologist.
Rita Levi-Montalcini
At the University of Missouri, this Woman was considered a trouble maker for "always wearing pants".
Barbara McClintock
This woman won a Nobel Prize in chemistry and the order of merit.
Dorothy Hodgkin
This woman earned her PhD in mathematics at Yale University.
Grace Hopper
This woman said, "There is no joy more intense than that of coming upon a fact that cannot be understood in terms of currently accepted ideas."
Cecelia Payne-Gaposchkin
This woman was a Civil Rights activist and was a key part of the Supreme Court Case, Brown v. Board of Education.
Mamie Philipps Clark
This woman, who was a theoretical physicist, was nicknamed "Onion Madonna".
Maria Goeppert-Mayer
The University of Hawaii honored this woman with a plaque on a chaulmoogra tree.
Alice Ball
This woman studied astronomy and astrophysics at Cambridge University.
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
This woman said, "The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves."
Rachel Carson
This woman worked on the President's Commission on heart disease, cancer, and stroke in 1964.
Jane Cooke Wright
This woman would feed komodo dragons eggs from spoons.
Joan Beachamp Procter
In 1988, the woman won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her discoveries in drug treatment.
Gertrude Elion
This woman changed the practice of physics by disproving the "law of conservation of parity".
Chien-Shiung Wu