Women in STEM
Women in STEM
Nobel Prizes
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Who was the first woman to go to space?

Valentina Tereshkova

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This female scientist is the world's expert on chimpanzees

Jane Goodall

100

Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize for chemistry for her development of this theory (That also ultimately killed her)

Radioactivity

100

Clara Barton was a famous Civil War nurse that founded this medical organization

Red Cross

100

How did Filipino Fe del become the first woman admitted to Harvard Medical School in 1936?


Officials thought she was a man

200

Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1906-1972) was the first American woman to receive the Nobel Prize in which STEM field?

Physics

200

Who was the first woman to cross the Atlantic solo in an airplane?

Amelia Earhart

200

How many women have won Nobel Prizes in science?

65

200

American biochemist Jennifer Doudna is recognized as being the first to do what with the game-changing tool CRISPR?

She was the first to edit bacterial DNA with CRISPR

200

This field is tied with engineering for the largest gender disparity in STEM.

Computer Science

300

Almost 200 years ago the first computer programmer was born. What was her name?

Ada Lovelace

300

She is the COO of facebook and the author of "Lean In"

Sheryl Sandburg

300

She is the only woman in history to win 2 Nobel prizes (won both for contributions to science)

Marie Curie

300

This scientist was an Austrian-Swedish physicist who was one of those responsible for the discovery of the element protactinium and nuclear fission.

Lise Meitner

300

The longest-living cells in humans come from this part of the body

Brain

400

British scientist Rosalind Franklin’s meticulous preparation of her DNA samples for X-ray diffraction photographs inadvertently contributed to one of the biggest discoveries of the 20th century. What was that discovery?

The structure of DNA

400

What astronaut was the first black woman in space and had a guest appearance on Star Trek: The Next Generation?

Mae Jemison

400

What year did the first woman win a Nobel Prize in science?

1903

400

Hollywood star Hedy Lamarr did not just set hearts racing on-screen. She also helped invent which wartime device?

Secret Communication Systems

400

What daughter of a Nobel Prize winner helped create France's first nuclear reactor?

Irene Joliot-Curie, Marie Curie's daughter.

500

I am a mathematician who calculated the trajectories of Apollo 11, the mission which enabled man to take his first steps on the Moon. Who am I?

Katherine Johnson

500

American geneticist Mary-Claire King’s decades of research showed that breast cancer could be inherited, a discovery that transformed how scientists and doctors approached the treatment of this disease. What gene did she discover?

BRCA1

500

I recently won the Nobel Prize for my work in the COVID-19 vaccine.

Katalin Kariko

500

This scientist, born in 1906, is the inventor of computer programming. She was an American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral and one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer. She helped invent the first computer coding language used in business called COBOL.

Grace Hopper

500

The percentage of POC Women in STEM is:

<34%