Shecience Shorts
Description: American aviator, commercial astronaut. She was the first female air safety investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board, the first female civilian flight instructor at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and the first female Federal Aviation Agency inspector, as well as one of the Mercury 13.
Description: French natural philosopher and mathematician from the early 1730s. Her most recognized achievement is her translation of and commentary on Isaac Newton's book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica containing basic laws of physics. The translation is still considered the standard French translation.