Pioneering Women in STEM
This scientist is the only person who has won Nobel Prizes in two scientific fields.
Who is Marie Curie?
This year, the first woman won a Nobel Prize in Physics.
What is 1903?
This actress and inventor developed technology that became the basis of all wireless communication.
Who is Hedy Lamarr?
This mathematician's work at NASA was crucial to the success of the Apollo 11 mission.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
This NASA mathematician’s calculations were critical to the success of the first U.S. space missions.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
This mathematician wrote the first algorithm intended for a computer.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
This year, the first woman walked in space.
What is 1984?
This TV show features a female neuroscientist who is also a real-life neuroscientist.
What is "The Big Bang Theory" (Mayim Bialik)?
Who discovered the structure of DNA alongside Watson and Crick but was under-credited?
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
This American physicist made groundbreaking contributions to the development of X-ray crystallography.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
This mathematician wrote the first book on calculus and developed the famously mistranslated "Witch of Agnesi" equation.
Who is Maria Agnesi?
This year, the first woman received a Ph.D. in computer science.
What is 1965?
This movie tells the story of three African-American women mathematicians who worked at NASA during the Space Race.
What is "Hidden Figures"?
This American mathematician and computer scientist co-authored the first paper on the theory of software.
Who is Grace Hopper?
This computer scientist developed the first math-to-code compiler and programmed the Mark I.
Who is Grace Hopper?
This year, the first woman was awarded the Fields Medal in mathematics.
What is 2014?
This actress, known for her role in "Star Trek," inspired many women to pursue careers in STEM.
Who is Nichelle Nichols?
This African-American mathematician and aerospace engineer worked at NASA and was one of the first.
African-American women to work as a computer scientist there.
Who is Dorothy Vaughan?
This environmental scientist warned the world about the dangers of pesticides in her book "Silent Spring."
Who is Rachel Carson?
This British-American Astronomer and astrophysicist discovered that stars were composed primarily of hydrogen and helium, as proposed in her 1935 doctoral thesis. She became the first person to earn a doctorate in astronomy from Harvard University and later became the first woman to head a department at Harvard (as the Chair of the Department of Astronomy).
Who was Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin?
This year, the first woman was elected president of the American Chemical Society.
What is 1978?
Name the woman who developed the first successful polio vaccine.
Who is Dr. Isabel Morgan(Dr. Jonas Salk’s research assistant.)