Science
She won the Nobel Prize in 1903 for her work in radioactivity. She also has an element named after her.
a. Jane Goodall
b. Marie Curie
c. Vera Rubin
d. Rosalind Franklin
e. Inge Lehmann
b. Marie Curie
She is considered the world's first computer programmer.
a. Annie Easley
b. Grace Hopper
c. Ada Lovelace
d. Mary Keller
e. Mary Wilkes
c. Ada Lovelace
She is best known for her contribution to the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge. She was also the first person to walk across it.
a. Emily Roebling
b. Hedy Lamarr
c. Stephanie Kwolek
d. Mary Anderson
e. Martha Coston
a. Emily Roebling
She is one of the head artists in American Modernism, and one of the first to produce purely abstract works of art.
a. Louise Bourgeois
b. Frida Kahlo
c. Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
d. Georgia O'Keefe
e. Mary Cassatt
d. Georgia O'Keefe
She made major contributions to the fields of theoretical physics and abstract algebra. Albert Einstein dubbed her as “the most significant mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.”
a. Hypatia
b. Sophie Germain
c. Sofia Kovalevskaya
d. Dorothy Vaughn
e. Emmy Noether
e. Emmy Noether
She is the most famous primate scientist in history, most renown for her work with chimpanzees.
a. Jane Goodall
b. Marie Curie
c. Vera Rubin
d. Rosalind Franklin
e. Inge Lehmann
a. Jane Goodall
She was a US Navy Admiral who was one of the programmers on the Harvard Mark I computer. She also created COBOL, a programming language still in use today.
a. Annie Easley
b. Grace Hopper
c. Ada Lovelace
d. Mary Keller
e. Mary Wilkes
b. Grace Hopper
She discovered Kevlar; she also has 17 patents to her name.
a. Emily Roebling
b. Hedy Lamarr
c. Stephanie Kwolek
d. Mary Anderson
e. Martha Coston
c. Stephanie Kwolek
She is known for her uncompromising self portraits. She divorced fellow artist Diego Rivera.
a. Louise Bourgeois
b. Frida Kahlo
c. Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
d. Georgia O'Keefe
e. Mary Cassatt
b. Frida Kahlo
She is considered the first female mathematicians and is known for helping develop the astrolabe. She most known for her work on conic sections (circle, ellipse, parabola, hyperbola).
a. Hypatia
b. Sophie Germain
c. Sofia Kovalevskaya
d. Dorothy Vaughn
e. Emmy Noether
a. Hypatia
Using X-ray crystallography, she discovered the shape of DNA- the double helix.
a. Jane Goodall
b. Marie Curie
c. Vera Rubin
d. Rosalind Franklin
e. Inge Lehmann
d. Rosalind Franklin
She designed and wrote the software system, as well as the operating system, of the world's first personal computer called LINC.
a. Annie Easley
b. Grace Hopper
c. Ada Lovelace
d. Mary Keller
e. Mary Wilkes
e. Mary Wilkes
She invented windshield wipers.
a. Emily Roebling
b. Hedy Lamarr
c. Stephanie Kwolek
d. Mary Anderson
e. Martha Coston
d. Mary Anderson
She was Marie Antionette's portrait painter and painted nearly 1000 works in both portraits and landscapes.
a. Louise Bourgeois
b. Frida Kahlo
c. Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
d. Georgia O'Keefe
e. Mary Cassatt
c. Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
She is the first woman to be honored by the Paris Academy of Sciences for her work on elastic theory. She also contributed to Fermat's Last Theorem.
a. Hypatia
b. Sophie Germain
c. Sofia Kovalevskaya
d. Dorothy Vaughn
e. Emmy Noether
b. Sophie Germain
She discovered the composition of the Earth's core using data from earthquakes.
a. Jane Goodall
b. Marie Curie
c. Vera Rubin
d. Rosalind Franklin
e. Inge Lehmann
e. Inge Lehmann
She worked on the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and developed code that is used in batteries in hybrid cars.
a. Annie Easley
b. Grace Hopper
c. Ada Lovelace
d. Mary Keller
e. Mary Wilkes
a. Annie Easley
She invented the signal flare, which is still used by the US Navy today.
a. Emily Roebling
b. Hedy Lamarr
c. Stephanie Kwolek
d. Mary Anderson
e. Martha Coston
e. Martha Coston
She is famous for doing portraits of women in everyday life, especially mothers with their children.
a. Louise Bourgeois
b. Frida Kahlo
c. Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
d. Georgia O'Keefe
e. Mary Cassatt
e. Mary Cassatt
She was a "human supercomputer" for NASA that helped send John Glenn into orbit in 1962.
a. Hypatia
b. Sophie Germain
c. Sofia Kovalevskaya
d. Dorothy Vaughn
e. Emmy Noether
d. Dorothy Vaughn
She was an American researcher who proved the existence of dark matter.
a. Jane Goodall
b. Marie Curie
c. Vera Rubin
d. Rosalind Franklin
e. Inge Lehmann
c. Vera Rubin
She started the National Science Foundation workshop in the computer science department at Dartmouth, which was at the time an all-male school.
a. Annie Easley
b. Grace Hopper
c. Ada Lovelace
d. Mary Keller
e. Mary Wilkes
d. Mary Keller
She was an actress who invented a remote-controlled communications system for the US military with a basis of frequency hopping.
a. Emily Roebling
b. Hedy Lamarr
c. Stephanie Kwolek
d. Mary Anderson
e. Martha Coston
b. Hedy Lamarr
She is most famous for her gigantic spider sculptures.
a. Louise Bourgeois
b. Frida Kahlo
c. Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
d. Georgia O'Keefe
e. Mary Cassatt
a. Louise Bourgeois
She was instrumental in understanding the workings of Saturn and its rings with her studies in differential equations and elliptical integrals.
a. Hypatia
b. Sophie Germain
c. Sofia Kovalevskaya
d. Dorothy Vaughn
e. Emmy Noether
c. Sofia Kovalevskaya