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: American biochemist. She was the first African-American woman in the United States to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry.

Description: English primatologist and anthropologist.4] Seen as the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, Goodall is best known for her 60-year study of social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees

Description: American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut. She became the first black woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour.

Description: Chinese pharmaceutical chemist and malariologist. She discovered artemisinin and dihydroartemisinin, used to treat malaria, a breakthrough in twentieth-century tropical medicine, saving millions of lives in South China, Southeast Asia, Africa, and South America.

Description: Aspasia was a skilled rhetorician. One of the most important woman in the history of Athens. Greek historiographer and chronicler.

Description: American marine biologist, writer, and conservationist whose influential book Silent Spring and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement.

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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.

Description: Austrian-Swedish physicist who was one of those responsible for the discovery of the element protactinium and nuclear fission. While working at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute on radioactivity.

Description: American astronomer, librarian, naturalist, and educator. In 1847, she discovered a comet named 1847 VI that was later known as "Miss Mitchell's Comet" in her honor.

Description: American geologist and oceanographic cartographer who, in partnership with Bruce Heezen, created the first scientific map of the Atlantic Ocean floor. Tharp's work revealed the detailed topography geographical landscape of the ocean bottom.

Description: English fossil collector, dealer, and palaeontologist who became known around the world for the discoveries she made in Jurassic marine fossil beds in the cliffs along the English Channel at Lyme Regis in the county of Dorset in Southwest England.

Description: German mathematician who made many important contributions to abstract algebra. She discovered Noether's theorem, which is fundamental in mathematical physics

Description: American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights.

Description: Scottish scientist, writer, and polymath. She studied mathematics and astronomy, and in 1835 she was elected together with Caroline Herschel as the first female Honorary Members of the Royal Astronomical Society

Description: American cytogeneticist who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. McClintock received her PhD in botany from Cornell Un

Description: Legendary figure credited as the first female midwife or physician in ancient Athens.

Description: Austrian-born American film actress and inventor.1] She has been described as one of the great movie actresses of all time

Description: Chinese-American particle and experimental physicist who made significant contributions in the fields of nuclear and particle physics.

Description: American biochemist who has done pioneering work in CRISPR gene editing, and made other fundamental contributions in biochemistry and genetics. She received the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Description: African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics from an American university; she earned it in 1949 from Yale University. She graduated from Smith College in 1945.

Description: Countess of Lovelace was an English mathematician and writer, proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine

Description: Iranian mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Stanford University. Her research topics included Teichmüller theory, hyperbolic geometry, ergodic theory, and symplectic geometry.

Description: Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.