Notable Females in STEM
Born in Warsaw in 1867, she is the only woman in history to win two Nobel prizes, in both Physics and Chemistry.
Who is Marie Curie?
This 2016 film features a team of female African American mathematicians working for NASA during the space race.
What is Hidden Figures?
The four nucleotide bases that make up DNA are adenine, cytosine, thymine, and ______.
What is guanine?
Microbiologists might use this staining technique, named after the Danish bacteriologist who developed it, to classify bacteria into two large groups.
What is a gram stain?
This pandemic in 1918-1919 caused about 50 million deaths worldwide.
What is Spanish Influenza (H1N1) Virus?
This Johns Hopkins University graduate, who grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania in the early 1900s, raised concerns about the environmental impact of the use of fertilizers and pesticides and became an early environmental activist, publishing her book Silent Spring in 1962.
Who is Rachel Carson?
This 2019 film featured Rosamund Pike as a Nobel-Prize winning female scientist.
What is Radioactive?
This is the process by which genetic information is transferred from DNA to RNA.
What is transcription?
Also known as leukocytes these defend the body by producing antibodies & destroying cancer cells.
What are white blood cells?
Considered the father of modern epidemiology, this physician studied cholera outbreaks in the 1800s.
Who is John Snow?
Jane Goodall was best known her conversation research studying these animals
What are Primates/monkeys?
The 2013 film, Gravity, starred this actress who played an medical engineer in space
Who is Sandra Bullock?
This enzyme catalyzes the synthesis of DNA molecules.
What is DNA polymerase?
The calcium carbonate hairs found on the upper surface of Marijuana leaves.
What is cystolithic hair?
This book, at the time it was published in 1859 was both popular and controversial in its discussion of evolution and natural selection.
What is On the Origin of Species?
This British physician was the first woman to graduate from medical school in the United States. Graduating from Geneva Medical College in New York at the top of her class in 1849 and became public health activist.
Who is Elizabeth Blackwell?
In the 2016 Hidden Figures film, who was referred to as the “computer” at NASA.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
This female chemist studied at Cambridge University and played a role in the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
This scientist used his invention of one of the first practical microscopes to help refute the theory of spontaneous generation.
Who is Anton (Antonie) van Leeuwenhoek?
This mosquito-borne virus was first identified in Uganda in 1947 in monkeys while conduction surveillance for yellow fever.
What is Zika virus?
This doctor, engineer, and NASA astronaut was the first African America woman to travel in space.
Who is Mae Jemison?
This 1995 fictional movie depicted the spread of what virus in the United States.
What is Ebola Virus?
DNA nucleotides are made up of these three components.
A sugar, a phosphate, and a nitrogen-containing base.
This electron microscope is used to view the surface of cells
What is a scanning electron microscope (SEM)?
Alice Bell, a chemist, revolutionized the first successful treatment for this disease, using chaulmoogra tree oil.
What is Leprosy or Hansen's disease?