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Women in Science & Tech
Women in Science & Tech
The British primatologist is considered the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees after her 55-year-long study on the wild chimpanzees in Gomber Stream National Park in Tanzania.
Who is Jane Goodall?
This "Queen of All Media” became the first Black female billionaire in the United States in 2003.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
This American aviator became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.
Who is Amelia Earhart?
At just 18 years old, Mary Shelley wrote this famous Gothic story about a young scientist who accidentally creates a sapient creature during an unorthodox experiment.
Who is Frankenstein?
This Hidden Figure’s trajectory analysis as a mathematician for NASA was crucial to the success of the first ever US space flight.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
This funny woman was the first actress to come out as gay on TV.
Who is Ellen DeGeneres?
This Bronx native and Yale Law School graduate became the first Latina Supreme Court Justice.
Who is Sonia Sotomayor?
This rom-com author wrote the classic novels Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility while she was only in her teens.
Who is Jane Austen?
The real estate developer Mary Anderson invented this car accessory to allow for a better view during bad weather.
What are wind shield wipers?
This actress became the first Asian Woman to win an Academy Award for best actress in a leading role for her performance in Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Who is Michelle Yeoh?
This Mexican painter is best known for her uncompromising and brilliantly colored self-portraits that deal with themes of identity, the human body, and death.
Who is Frida Kahlo?
This phenomenal woman made literary history as the first nonfiction best-seller by an African-American woman for the memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
Who is Maya Angelou?
Dr. Patricia Bath discovered and invented a new device and technique for cataract surgery known as laserphaco but it is more commonly known as this.
What is laser cataract surgery?
This former ABC anchor was the first, in so many ways, the first woman to anchor a morning and evening network newscast and the first to create a groundbreaking talk show aimed at women, "The View."
Who is Barbara Walters?
This Pakistani activist is the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts in fighting for women's rights to education.
Who is Malala Yousafzai?
Margaret Atwood wrote this dystopian novel set in a near-future New England in a strongly patriarchal, totalitarian state which has overthrown the United States government.
What is the Handmaid's Tale?
The 1940s actress and self taught inventor Hedy Lamarr was awarded a patent in 1942 for her "secret communication system”. This frequency hopping system was intended as a way to set radio-guided torpedos off course during the war, but the idea eventually inspired this radio frequency technology commonly used today.
What is Wi-Fi, GPS and/or Bluetooth?
This natural woman became the first woman inducted into the rock n roll hall of fame in 1987.
Who is Aretha Franklin?
Marie Curie, a two-time winner of the Nobel Prize, was a pioneering physicist and scientist. She discovered the two elements radium and polonium and coined this term for the emission of radiation.
What is radioactivity?
In 1982, Alice Walker became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for this famous novel.
What is the Color Purple?