STEM (International

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a Black mathematician and one of the first African American woman to work as a NASA
scientism

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Katherine Johnson

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best known for making the calculations that allowed the first Americans to enter Earth’s orbit and set foot on the moon

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Katherine Johnson

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The 2016 movie “Hidden Figures” chronicles Johnson’s life and work at NASA

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Katherine Johnson

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French physicist and chemist who conducted critical research on radioactivity

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Marie Curie

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discovered two new chemical elements: radium and polonium

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Marie Curie

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led the first research project on the impact of radiation treatment on tumors

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Marie Curie

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the first person and the only woman to win a Nobel Prize twice (physics and chemistry)

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Marie Curie

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first woman to travel into space where she orbited the Earth 48 times in just three days

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Valentina Tereshkova

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paved the way for women in medicine in Great Britain

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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

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first female doctor in England

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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

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first women dean of a medical school and the first female mayor in England

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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

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best known for conducting the Wu experiment, which proved that identical particles do not always behave in the same manner

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Chien-Shiung Wu

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“First Lady of Physics”

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Chien-Shiung Wu

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credited with disproving one of the basic laws of physics, called conservation of parity
(decaying identical nuclear particles didn’t always behave symmetrically)

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Chien-Shiung Wu

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a British chemist

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Rosalind Franklin

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best known for discovering the molecular structures of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal, and graphite

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Rosalind Franklin

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Using a technique called X-ray crystallography, she revealed the helical shape of DNA

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Rosalind Franklin

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regarded as the world’s first computer programme

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Ada Lovelace

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long before computers were even invented — invented an algorithm for a computer

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Ada Lovelace

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founded NASA’s EarthKam Project, which provided students the opportunity to take pictures of the Earth and then study them

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Ada Lovelace

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mother of modern chemistry

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Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier (1758-1836)

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discovery of oxygen gas

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Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier (1758-1836)

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first woman to graduate from medical school in the United States (Geneva Medical College in upstate New York)

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Elizabeth Blackwell

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helped developed CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats), the genetic-engineering method that could allow for “designer babies” but also for the eradication or treatment of sickle cell anemia, cystic fibrosis, Huntington’s disease,

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Jennifer Doudna

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her book, Silent Spring (1962), became one of the most influential books in the modern environmental movement and provided the impetus for tighter control of pesticides, including DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane)

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Rachel Carson

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has discovered 715 planets in her time working with the Kepler Space Telescope

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Sara Seager

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proved that dark matter existed in the universe by concluding that invisible gravity sources were pulling planets and stars in certain directions

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Vera Rubin

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a British biophysicist known for revolutionary work discovering DNA, as well as understanding X-rays and molecular structure

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Rosalind Franklin

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investigated the properties of carbon

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Rosalind Franklin

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genetic makeup of corn, and specifically, her discovery of genetic transposition, or the ability of genes to change position on the chromosome

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Barbara McClintoc

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the only woman to have received, by herself, a Nobel Prize for Medicine

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Barbara McClintoc

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genetic material is not fixed but instead is fluid

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Barbara McClintoc

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James Watson credited her genetic insights as part of his discovery of DNA

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Barbara McClintoc

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discovery of mobile genetic elements,” now called transposons

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Barbara McClintoc

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the first to suggest the idea of epigenetics, where genes alter their activity in response to external factors

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Barbara McClintock

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a biochemist and pharmacologist who developed drugs to treat leukemia and prevent kidney transplant rejection International Women's Day

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Gertrude Elion

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The Mother of the Internet (although she disapproves)

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Radia Perlman

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developed the algorithm behind the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP), an innovation that made today’s Internet possible

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Radia Perlman

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key inventor of the languageCOBOL (an acronym for COmmonBusiness-OrientedLanguage) a widely used programming language

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Rear Admiral Grace Hopper

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first person to call computer problems “bugs” in the system

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Rear Admiral Grace Hopper

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“The Lady with the Lamp” for her heroic nursing in the Crimean War

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Florence Nightingale

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credited for reducing the death rate from 42% to 2%

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Florence Nightingale

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the inventor of modern nursing

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Florence Nightingale

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the Florence Nightingale Medal is the highest international honor a nurse can receive

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Florence Nightingale

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Juno mission to Jupiter

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Adriana Ocampo

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New Horizons missions to pluto

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Adriana Ocampo

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developed a groundbreaking treatment for leprosy

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Alice Augusta Ball

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governor of Hawaii declared February 29 “Alice Ball Day”

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Alice Augusta Ball

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The term "birth control" wouldn't exist had it not been for Ms. Sange

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Margaret Sanger

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founded what would eventually become the Planned Parenthood Federation of America

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Margaret Sanger

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a British chemist on the cutting edge of X-ray crystallography

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Dorothy Hodgkin

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first and only British woman to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for her determinations by X- ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances.”

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Dorothy Hodgkin

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atomiic structure of penicillin, the structure of vitamin B12 and the structure of insulin

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Dorothy Hodgkin

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advocate for the peaceful use of atomic energy and flatly refused to work on the Manhattan Project because she strongly opposed using fission to create an atom bomb

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Lise Meitner

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has a chemical element – meitnerium – named after her

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Lise Meitner

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serving as a mission specialist on the space shuttle Challenger in 1983

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Sally Ride

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the first American woman to go to space, but she was also the youngest astronaut to have made the trip (32)

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Sally Ride

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discovery of a new malaria treatment using sweet wormwood to treat intermittent fevers – a symptom of malaria

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Tu Youyou

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a malaria-inhibiting substance called artemisinin

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Tu Youyou

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Astronomer who discovered the composition of star

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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

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discovered Earth has a solid inner core

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Inge Lehmann

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Inge Lehmann discover

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Earth has olid inner core

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Has comet, an asteroid, a crater on the Moon and a space telescope named after her

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Caroline Herschel

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First woman to discover a comet

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Caroline Herschel

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Discovered the first complete fossil of a dinosaur (Ichythyosurus)

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Mary Anning

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Albert Einstein once said, Germany’s own Marie Curie

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Lise Meitner

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first scientist to clone HIV and create a map of its genes, which led to a test for the virus

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Flossie Wong

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first female aviator to fly across the Atlantic Ocean alone

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Amelia Earhart

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considered the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, after 60 years studying the social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees

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Jane Goodall

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Asia's first woman loco pilot (train driver, 1988

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Surekha Yadav [aviation]

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first female to operate the newly-introduced semi-high-speed Vande Bharat

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Surekha Yadav [aviation]

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Radia Perlman known as?

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Mother of Internet

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Chien- Shiung Wu known as

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First Lady of Physics

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Marie- Anne Paulze Lazoisier known as

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Mother of modern Chemistry

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Marie- Anne Paulze Lazoisier discover

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Oxygen gas

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discovered two new chemical elements of Marie Curie

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Radium and Polonium

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has a chemical element named after Lise Meitner

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meitnerium

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Sally Ride serving as ?

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a mission specialist on the space shuttle Challenger in 1983

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Chien-Shiung credited with disproving one of the basic laws of physics, called ?

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conservation of parity

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Rosalind Franklin is a

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Britrish Chemist