This woman pioneered research about radioactivity, a term she coined. She is the only woman ever to win two Nobel prizes and the only person ever to win in two different categories: physics and chemistry.
Who is Madame Curie?
100
She was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, she invented the first compiler for a computer programming language, and was a United States Navy Rear Admiral.
Who is Grace Hopper?
100
This female electrical engineer was killed on the 1986 Challenger mission.
Who is Judith Resnik?
100
Francoise Gilot forged a visual style and identity entirely her own despite being known mainly as this Cubist artist's lover and mother of his children.
Who is Pablo Picasso?
100
Amalie "Emmy" Noether was called "the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began," by this famous former patent clerk turned inventor.
Who is Albert Einstein?
200
Minal Sampath was one of the many female scientists critical to this country's recent successful landing of an orbiter on Mars.
What is India?
200
She was a famous actress from Austria who emigrated to the United States and helped the Allies during WWII with her “Secret Communications System”, which later helped to form the backbone of cellular communications and wireless technology.
Who is Hedy Lamarr?
200
Olive Dennis was a female engineer who changed the nature of railway travel for this organization.
What is B&O Railroad?
200
Photographer Mary Steen ,at the age of 28, opened a studio in Copenhagen where she specialized in indoor photography. She later became this country's first female court photographer.
What is Denmark?
200
The head of the Neoplatonic School in Alexandria in this country was Hypatia of Alexandria, a Greek philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician.
What is Egypt?
300
In 1847, Maria Mithcell observed and documented this type of streaking star within the night sky.
What is a comet?
300
Sister Mary Kenneth Keller was the first woman to earn a PhD in this field.
What is computer science?
300
This is the term did Grace Hopper get credited for related to fixing computer glitches.
What is "debugging"?
300
Judith Sylvia Cohen coined the name "feminist art" and founded the first feminist art program in the U.S. She later changed her name to match this midwestern city.
What is Chicago?
300
Émilie du Châtelet was a writer and mathematician during the French Enlightenment. She translated /Principia Mathematica/, originally written by this English physicist famous for getting hit by fruit.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
400
Lise Meitner developed the theory of nuclear fission which is the physics behind what type of bomb?
What is the atomic bomb?
400
Dr. Ellen Ochoa designed optical systems for Sandia National Laboratory and at NASA’s Ames Research Center developed computer systems designed for aeronautical expeditions. She is also the Deputy Director of the Johnson Space Center. She was the first woman of this ethnicity in space.
What is Hispanic?
400
The name of the organization that promotes and supports women engineers.
What is The Society of Women Engineers (SWE)?
400
Best known for her self portraits, her work "Broken Column" depicts the lifelong pain she endured after a traffic accident at the age of 18. She was portrayed by Salma Hayek in the movie.
Who is Frida Kahlo
400
In the early 1790s, Sophie Germain studied geometry to escape boredom while being confined to her family's home during this reknowned conflict.
What is the French Revolution?
500
Rosalind Franklin's work studying the X-ray diffraction images of DNA led to the discovery of this structure of DNA.
What is the double helix?
500
The name of the first all-electronic programmable computer, programmed by six young women during WWII.
What is ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer)?
500
Before engineering was recognized as a formal profession, women with engineering skills often sought recognition as this.
What are inventors?
500
In 1905 she was the first woman to be admitted to theory courses at the Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt (Graphic Training Institute). She also pioneered the use of photographic studios as fashionable meeting places for the Austro-Hungarian aristocracy.
Who is Dora Kallmus?
500
Charlotte Angas Scott became the first head of the math department at this women's liberal arts college in Pennsylvania. Her work to standardize testing for college entrance resulted in the formation of the College Entrance Examination Board.