Medical Physics/Chemistry
In a publication in 1950, Dr. M. Vera Peters demonstrated that a high proportion of early-stage Hodgkin’s patients could be cured if treated with a high dosage of what?
Radiation
British astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell initially mistook her discovery of radio signals in outer space for what?
Aliens
Italian experimental particle physicist, and the first woman to be Director-General at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Switzerland who made significant contribution to the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012.
Fabiola Gianotti
Whom is the first and only women to have won a Noble Prize twice?
Marie Curie
How many women today have received a Nobel Prize in sciences?
20
Using triethylene melamine on tumors Dr. Jane Cooke pioneered research on this, the use of drugs to treat cancer
Chemotherapy
What did German astronomer Caroline Herschel discover in the 18th century?
A comet
In 1939 physicist Lise Meitner & her nephew Otto Frisch coined this term referring to the splitting of an atom's nucleus
Nuclear Fission
Who was the first woman to go to space?
Valentina Tereshkova
The American physicist and mathematician’s calculations of orbital mechanics made possible the first and subsequent manned U.S. spaceflights at NASA.
Katherine Johnson
Dr. Donna Strickland won the Nobel Prize for physics in 2018 for her work in this field
Laser Technology
This American astronomer conducted pioneering work on galaxy rotation rates, providing the first evidence for the existence of dark matter.
Vera Rubin
The Chinese-American particle and experimental physicist who made significant contributions in the fields of nuclear and particle physics, best known for conducting the famous experiment, which proved that parity is not conserved.
Chien-Shiung Wu (Chinese: 吳健雄)
A British chemist who was instrumental in discovering the structure of DNA. A rover going to Mars in 2021 will bear my first name
Rosalind Franklin
British physicist who was the first woman nominated to become a fellow of the Royal Society (although women could not be elected).
Hertha Ayrton
Thought to have been the first Black American woman to earn a PhD in chemistry, in 1947 who later researched effects of cigarette smoke on the lungs.
Marie Maynard Daly
Astronomer Annie Jump Cannon developed a system of classifying stars & discovered 5 of these exploding ones
Novas
The Scientia Professor of Quantum Physics at UNSW is recognized internationally as a pioneer of atomic electronics and quantum computing, leading Australia at the forefront of quantum computing science and she was named 2018 Australian of the Year.
Michelle Simmons
Who was the world's first computer programmer? (Born almost 200 years ago)
Ada Lovelace
The chemist who developed an injectable form of chaulmoogra oil, which was used for 20 years to treat Hansen's disease, also known as leprosy.
Alice Ball
The Canadian geneticist who discovered that using X-rays during pregnancy increases the chances of Down syndrome and other chromosomal abnormalities
Dr Irene Uchida
Astronaut Roberta Bondar made history as the first Canadian woman and second Canadian in space when she flew aboard the American space shuttle Discovery in what year?
1992
The German-born American theoretical physicist proposed the nuclear shell model of the atomic nucleus and in 1963 became the second woman to win a Nobel Prize in Physics.
Maria Goeppert-Mayer
The first female to complete a doctorate in electrical engineering at Queen's, an advocate for gender equality in STEM and the first female president of Industry Canada's Communication Research Centre
Veena Rawat
The first African American woman to receive a PhD in physics from an American university, who earned a doctorate in physics from the University of Michigan in 1972.
Willie Hobbs Moore