Woman And Science

Discovery and Works

100

This woman's work led to the discovery of the structure of DNA. 

Rosalind Franklin

200

This woman studied wild chimpanzees' social and family interactions for 60 years. 

Jane Goodall

300

This woman is known for her polarizing work Silent Spring, which warns of the use of chemicals in farming and our environment.

Rachel Carson

400

This woman is known for her contributions to the mathematical modeling of the earth's shape. 

Gladys West

500

This woman was known as a "human computer." 

Katherine Johnson

Nobel Prize

100

This is the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in science. 

Marie Curie

200

This is the second woman to win a Nobel Prize in Physics. 

Maria Geoppert Mayer

300

This is the third woman to win a Nobel Prize in the Chemistry field in 1964.

Dorothy Hodgkin

400

This woman is the third woman in history to win a Nobel Prize in the scientific field. 

Gerty Cori

500

This woman was rumored to have died before her work in science was eligible to be submitted for a Nobel Prize. 

Rosalind Franklin

Firsts of Many

100

This was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. 

Amelia Earhart

200

The first practicing female doctor in Scotland. 

Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake

300

The first African American woman in space.

Mae C. Jemison

400

The first woman to be awarded a military DBE in January 1918. 

Helen Gwynne-Vaughan

500

The first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. 

Gerty Cori

Film

100

Hidden Figures was a book turned film where she was portrayed alongside Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson.

Katherine Johnson

200

The 2019 film Radioactive tells the story of how she changed the world with her research. 

Marie Curie

300

2017 National Geographic film about their integration into an animal community, showing what it means to be a human and that women can be successful in a masculine-dominated field.

Jane Goodall

400

Her likeness was portrayed in Night at the Museum 2.

Amelia Earhart

500

She was one of the scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project and didn’t get credit in the new film Oppenheimer that follows this project.

Maria Goeppert Mayer

Wild Card

100

This woman appeared on several episodes of Star Trek 

Mae C. Jemison

200

Her work led to the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. 

Rachel Carson

300

This woman's work on the Seasat radar altimetry project cut her team's processing time in half. 

Gladys West

400

This woman took a break from academia to serve in the First World War. 

Helen Gwynne-Vaughan

500

This woman continued to use her maiden name for 12 years after getting married

Dorothy Hodgkin