Women in Chemistry
Women in Engineering and Computing
US Women's History
Women at ANL
100
Who was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize? Her notebooks are still kept in lead-lined boxes for safety.
Marie Curie
100
Who is commonly known as the first computer programmer? Her notes were important to the early history of computing, and she predicted the potential uses for modern computers.
Ada Lovelace
100
Who was the first woman Vice President, as well as the first Black American and South Asian American to serve in the role?
Kamala Harris
100
What role does Dr. Lisa Pocius, MD serve at Argonne?
Chief Medical Officer in the EHS division
200
Who discovered the structure of DNA?
Rosalind Franklin
200
Which woman was both a famous 1930s movie star and an inventor? She helped develop a communications system for the Allies in WW2, and her technology was the basis for Wi-Fi, GPS, and Bluetooth.
Hedy Lamarr
200
Who is currently the most decorated gymnast in history? She has won 37 total career medals, including 4 Olympic gold medals for the US women's gymnastics team.
Simone Biles
200
Who is Argonne's Chief Operations Officer? She joins us from Los Alamos National Laboratory, where she served as the chief operating officer for Physical Sciences.
Raeanna Sharp-Geiger
300
Who discovered nuclear fission with Otto Hahn, which led to the later development of the atomic bomb? However, she was excluded from the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944, which was awarded solely to Hahn.
Lise Meitner
300
Which mathematician calculated orbital mechanics at NASA, and was integral in the success of the moon landing? The 2016 movie "Hidden Figures" was based on her life.
Katherine Johnson
300
Who was the first American woman in space?
Sally Ride
300
Which Argonne chemist received the 2023 Mildred Dresselhaus Guest Professorship Awards from the University of Hamburg, Germany? She is recognized for her work on transition metal complexes in excited states.
Lin X. Chen
400
Which chemist innovated a cure for leprosy by saponifying fatty acids in order to make a medicinal oil that was water-soluble?
Alice Ball
400
Who invented the "graphical calculator" in the 1910s, and was dubbed the "human computer" while working at GE? In 1926, she became the first woman to deliver a paper to the American Institute of Electrical Engineers.
Edith Clarke
400
Which amendment to the Constitution granted women the right to vote in the United States?
The 19th Amendment, passed in 1919 granted white women the right to vote (though POC women and indigenous women would not have full voting rights until the 60s and 70s)
400
How many women have served as the Director of Argonne National Laboratory?
Zero