Famous Scientists I
Pop Culture
STEM Field Facts
Famous Women in STEM II
UW
100

Who is best known for her work in the discovery of the structure of DNA using x-ray crystallography?

Rosalind Franklin

100

Name the reference: "The limit does not exist"

Mean Girls

100

What is the most common profession for women in STEM?

Psychology

100

Who created the first code compiler?

Grace Hopper

100

What percent of UW undergraduate students are female?

55%

200

Who won the 2015 Nobel Prize for her discovery of a novel therapy against malaria?

Tu Youyou

200

Name the reference: "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."

Jurassic Park

200

What percent of the STEM workforce do women account for?

~30%

200

Who is considered the world's first computer programmer?

Ada Lovelace

200

What percent of STEM majors at the University of Washington identify as female?

48%

300

Who is the first women to win a Nobel Prize for her discovery of the theory of radioactivity?

Marie Curie
300

Name the reference: "The structure is polymorphic. Why didn't you just reprogram the synapses to work collectively?"

Infinity War

300

What percent of engineering majors are female?

~20%

300

Who won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her discovery of nerve growth factors?

Rita Levi-Montalcini

300

Name 2 Women in STEM RSOs

Women in Aerospace, Women in Computing, Women in Informatics, Women in User Experience, Society of Women Engineers, Women in Chemical Engineering, etc.

400

Who is known as the "mother of the atomic bomb", famous for her pioneering work in the discovery of the element protactinium and nuclear fission, and one of only two women with an element named after them?

Lise Meitner

400

Name the reference: "You treat an outside wound with rubbing alcohol. You treat an inside wound with drinking alcohol."

New Girl

400

Women make up what percent of STEM industry CEOs?

3%

400

Who was a NASA employee whose calculations of orbital mechanics greatly contributed to the success of early spaceflights?

Katherine Johnson
400

What is the full name of the gender studies major at UW?

Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies

500

Who is the first female University of Washington Nobel Laureate, winning the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her work on olfactory receptors, and current faculty at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center?

Linda Buck

500

Which sci-fi movie involves eugenics, genetic discrimination, and space travel?

Gattaca

500

Women engineers have average salaries that are __% of those of men engineers.

80-90%

500

Who won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her pioneering work on CRISPR at the University of California, Berkeley?

Jennifer Doudna

500
In which building is the women's center located on campus?

Cunningham Hall