Women in STEM
Who was the first woman to go to space?
Valentina Tereshkova
This female scientist is the world's expert on chimpanzees
Jane Goodall
Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize for chemistry for her development of this theory (That also ultimately killed her)
Radioactivity
Clara Barton was a famous Civil War nurse that founded this medical organization
Red Cross
How did Filipino Fe del become the first woman admitted to Harvard Medical School in 1936?
Officials thought she was a man
Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1906-1972) was the first American woman to receive the Nobel Prize in which STEM field?
Physics
Who was the first woman to cross the Atlantic solo in an airplane?
Amelia Earhart
How many women have won Nobel Prizes in science?
65
American biochemist Jennifer Doudna is recognized as being the first to do what with the game-changing tool CRISPR?
She was the first to edit bacterial DNA with CRISPR
This field is tied with engineering for the largest gender disparity in STEM.
Computer Science
Almost 200 years ago the first computer programmer was born. What was her name?
Ada Lovelace
She is the COO of facebook and the author of "Lean In"
Sheryl Sandburg
She is the only woman in history to win 2 Nobel prizes (won both for contributions to science)
Marie Curie
This scientist was an Austrian-Swedish physicist who was one of those responsible for the discovery of the element protactinium and nuclear fission.
Lise Meitner
The longest-living cells in humans come from this part of the body
Brain
British scientist Rosalind Franklin’s meticulous preparation of her DNA samples for X-ray diffraction photographs inadvertently contributed to one of the biggest discoveries of the 20th century. What was that discovery?
The structure of DNA
What astronaut was the first black woman in space and had a guest appearance on Star Trek: The Next Generation?
Mae Jemison
What year did the first woman win a Nobel Prize in science?
1903
Hollywood star Hedy Lamarr did not just set hearts racing on-screen. She also helped invent which wartime device?
Secret Communication Systems
What daughter of a Nobel Prize winner helped create France's first nuclear reactor?
Irene Joliot-Curie, Marie Curie's daughter.
I am a mathematician who calculated the trajectories of Apollo 11, the mission which enabled man to take his first steps on the Moon. Who am I?
Katherine Johnson
American geneticist Mary-Claire King’s decades of research showed that breast cancer could be inherited, a discovery that transformed how scientists and doctors approached the treatment of this disease. What gene did she discover?
BRCA1
I recently won the Nobel Prize for my work in the COVID-19 vaccine.
Katalin Kariko
This scientist, born in 1906, is the inventor of computer programming. She was an American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral and one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer. She helped invent the first computer coding language used in business called COBOL.
Grace Hopper
The percentage of POC Women in STEM is:
<34%