Canadian Women in STEM
This Canadian astronaut and neurologist became the first Canadian woman in space after flying aboard Space Shuttle Discovery in 1992.
Who is Roberta Bondar?
Katharine Burr Blodgett, an inventor devised a method to spread multiple layers of a monomolecular coating onto glass or metal. When applied to glass, it appears "invisible" since light reflected by the layers of film cancel the reflections created by the glass.
Who is Katharine Burr Blodgett?
Dr. Hoda ElMaraghy is recognized as the first Canadian woman to obtain a PhD in 1994 in this this field.
What is mechanical engineering?
Marie Curie became the first person in history to win two Nobel Prizes in different scientific fields — one awarded in physics and another in chemistry — in these two years
What are 1903 and 1911?
A scientist who studies the composition and structure of matter.
What is a chemist?
A Nobel‑winning physicist, she’s the first Canadian woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Physics (2018), recognized for breakthroughs enabling modern ultrafast lasers.
Who is Donna Strickland?
Became the first woman to receive a PhD in engineering from Concordia University in 1989 and in 2018, the university's Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science was named in her honour,.
Who is Dr. Gina Cody?
Described by Pavel Alexandrov, Albert Einstein, Jean Dieudonné, Hermann Weyl, and Norbert Wiener, Amalie Emmy Noether is coined as the most important woman in the history of.
What is Mathematics?
Recognized as the first computer programmer for publishing an algorithm designed to calculate Bernoulli numbers using the hypothetical analytical engine in the late 1830's/ early 1840's.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
A specialist who designs and tests new technological systems.
What is an engineer?
One of Canada’s earliest geologists, she spent her career at the Geological Survey of Canada and became the first female Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1938.
Who is Alice Wilson?
18th century mathematician credited with writing the first book discussing both differential and integral calculus.
Who is Maria Gaetana Agnesi?
In the 1960s, the lead developer of NASA’s Apollo Guidance Computer, Margaret Hamilton, introduced the term for the discipline she believed deserved the same respect as hardware engineering — a term now used worldwide to describe this field.
What is software engineering?
After being denied admission to medical school because she was a woman, Dr. Vera Peters, a Canadian biochemist, went on to discover the world’s first effective treatment for which disease.
What is Hodgkin’s disease (Hodgkin lymphoma)?
This career involves designing medical tools, prosthetics, or imaging equipment.
What is a biomedical engineer?
Canada’s first female nuclear physicist, she earned the first master’s in physics awarded to a woman at McGill (1901) and was an early investigator of radon.
Who is Harriet Brooks?
A late 4th century AD mathematician whose writings include commentary on Diophantus's "Arithmetica" which is a 13-volume ancient Greek algebra text containing more than 100 mathematical problems, as well as on Apollonius of Perga's work on conic sections.
Who is Hypatia of Alexandria?
She became the first woman to graduate from a Canadian medical school.
Who is Ann Augusta Stowe‑Gullen?
A scientist in this field studies how diseases spread and how to protect populations.
What is an epidemiologist?
In 1912, this botanist/geneticist became the first woman full professor at a Canadian university and founded McGill’s Genetics department
Who is Carrie Derick?
The six original programmers of the ENIAC, one of the first general-purpose electronic digital computers.
Who are Kay McNulty, Betty Holberton, Ruth Teitelbaum, Frances Spence, Marlyn Meltzer, and Jean Bartik?
Awarded in 2014 to the first Iranian woman for her groundbreaking work on the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces, this honor is widely regarded as the most prestigious award in what field?
What is Mathematics?
Nicknamed the "Mother of the Internet", she invented the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP), which is fundamental to the operation of network bridges.
Who is Radia Perlman?
A medical doctor who focuses on diagnosing and treating disease through tissue samples.
What is a pathologist?