Famous Scientists I
Who is best known for her work in the discovery of the structure of DNA using x-ray crystallography?
Rosalind Franklin
Name the reference: "The limit does not exist"
Mean Girls
What is the most common profession for women in STEM?
Psychology
Who created the first code compiler?
Grace Hopper
What percent of UW undergraduate students are female?
55%
Who won the 2015 Nobel Prize for her discovery of a novel therapy against malaria?
Tu Youyou
Name the reference: "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
Jurassic Park
What percent of the STEM workforce do women account for?
~30%
Who is considered the world's first computer programmer?
Ada Lovelace
What percent of STEM majors at the University of Washington identify as female?
48%
Who is the first women to win a Nobel Prize for her discovery of the theory of radioactivity?
Name the reference: "The structure is polymorphic. Why didn't you just reprogram the synapses to work collectively?"
Infinity War
What percent of engineering majors are female?
~20%
Who won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her discovery of nerve growth factors?
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Name 2 Women in STEM RSOs
Women in Aerospace, Women in Computing, Women in Informatics, Women in User Experience, Society of Women Engineers, Women in Chemical Engineering, etc.
Who is known as the "mother of the atomic bomb", famous for her pioneering work in the discovery of the element protactinium and nuclear fission, and one of only two women with an element named after them?
Lise Meitner
Name the reference: "You treat an outside wound with rubbing alcohol. You treat an inside wound with drinking alcohol."
New Girl
Women make up what percent of STEM industry CEOs?
3%
Who was a NASA employee whose calculations of orbital mechanics greatly contributed to the success of early spaceflights?
What is the full name of the gender studies major at UW?
Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies
Who is the first female University of Washington Nobel Laureate, winning the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her work on olfactory receptors, and current faculty at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center?
Linda Buck
Which sci-fi movie involves eugenics, genetic discrimination, and space travel?
Gattaca
Women engineers have average salaries that are __% of those of men engineers.
80-90%
Who won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her pioneering work on CRISPR at the University of California, Berkeley?
Jennifer Doudna
Cunningham Hall