Technology
Biology
Chemistry
Physics and Engineering
100
Lynn Conway is a computer scientist, electrical engineer, and transgender activist known for her work in designing microelectronics chips that are now ubiquitously used in the tech industry. She started her career working on the Advanced Computing Systems project for this major American technology company.
What is IBM?
100
This primatologist has researched the behaviors and lives of apes throughout her career. She traveled to Tanzania in 1960 to study populations of chimpanzees and continues to promote conservation.
Who is Jane Goodall?
100
She is, so far, the only woman in the field of science to win the Nobel Prize in two separate fields of science--chemistry and physics.
Who is Marie Curie?
100
The Calutron Girls were a group of women who operated the calutrons that used electromagnetic separation to isolate uranium as part of this project that produced the first nuclear bombs during WWII.
What is the Manhattan Project?
200
Rear Admiral Grace Hopper pioneered computer programming language development from the 1930s into the 1980s. She developed many of the computer languages written in English, rather than mathematical notation, including the business language COBOL. After earning her Ph.D. in mathematics from Yale, she attempted to enlist in the Navy during this war, but was initially rejected.
What is World War II?
200
As both a scientist and activist, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi discovered this immunocompromising virus, helped create blood tests that detect the infection, and developed the antiretroviral medications used in treatment.
What is HIV/AIDs?
200
Becoming the first Chinese women to win a Nobel Prize, Tu YouYou worked in pharmaceutical chemistry and pioneered the treatment of this disease transmitted by mosquitos infected with the plasmodium parasite.
What is malaria?
200
This physicist and astronaut became the first American women in space on June 18, 1983 during the STS-7 missions.
Who is Sally Ride?
300
She is considered the first computer programmer and wrote the first algorithm used for Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine in the 1840s.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
300
Rachel Carson, famous marine biologist and environmentalist, wrote this book which upon its publication in 1962 has been credited as the catalyst for the environmental movement.
What is Silent Spring?
300
She was known for her essential research in the double-helix structure of DNA. She was never credited with her role, and her associates Watson and Crick published her research without including her. She is now recognized as being central to the elucidation of DNA.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
300
Katherine Johnson worked with an all white male team in 1958, performing calculations and mathematical work in helping the launch of what?
What is Apollo 11 (NASA's moon landing in 1969)?
400
Hedy Lamarr was an inventor and American film actress during the golden age of Hollywood. She pioneered this technology that eventually would form the basis of this modern communication technology in 1941.
What is WIFI (signal hopping)?
400
Lydia Villa-Komaroff is a co-founder of The Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS). In her research she discovered that bacteria could be used to generate this peptide hormone that is produced by the pancreas and transports glucose into cells.
What is insulin?
400
Barbara McClintock was a cytogeneticist who discovered genetic transposition (gene-jumping) in the color of the kernels in this plant.
What is corn?
400
She was a doctor and engineer in the Peace Corp before becoming a NASA astronaut in 1987. In 1992 she orbited the earth with the STS-47 missions becoming the first Black American women to travel in space.
Who is Mae Jemison?