Female scientists - Team A

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  1. 6. Discovered the relationship between the brightness of variable stars and their period of variation
  2. 7. She discovered the link between the leukemia in 10 years children and the X-rays on pregnant women.
  3. 8. She discovered the lambda bacteriophage. This discovery transformed genetic research and laid the foundation for molecular genetics.
  4. 10. Founded the Nightingale Training School for Nurses in London, the first professional nursing school in the world.
  5. 13. Worked on black holes in the univers
  6. 15. was an American ichthyologist known for both her research on shark behavior and her study of fish in the order Tetraodontiformes
  7. 16. She discovered key Jurassic fossils that advanced paleontology.
  8. 20. Invented the proceedee of cyanotype and was the first person to publish a book illustrated with photographs
  9. 22. Is known for her large-scale sculptures and installations, especially her giant spider sculptures called Maman
  10. 23. Researched on semiconductor and particle physics, which led to advances in touch-tone telephone, portable fax, solar cells, and fiber optic communications.
  11. 24. Discovered proctacinium, nuclear fusion
  12. 25. Irène Joliot-Curie and her husband Frédéric Joliot-Curie were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discovery of artificial radioactivity
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  1. 1. She studied medicinal plants and natural remedies; contributing to medecine.
  2. 2. Was the first woman in space.
  3. 3. was the first african-american woman to get a Ph.D. in physics
  4. 4. Was the first woman engineer at NASA
  5. 5. Participated in the creation of novel nanomaterials
  6. 9. Discovered the enzyme telomerase
  7. 11. Published her thesis Jurassic-Cretaceous Boundary in Lebanon, contributing to geology/paleontology knowledge.
  8. 12. Was an entomologist and an artist. In her most famous work, Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium.
  9. 14. Was a particle physicist who helped confirm the existence of three fundamental particles : the building blocks of protons and discovered the gluons.
  10. 17. Developed groundbreaking drugs for leukemia; organ transplantation and virul infections work that led to her Nobel Prize.
  11. 18. Led medical teams providing medical and cancer care and education to other nurses and physicians in Kenya
  12. 19. The first French woman to join the European Space Agency's (ESA)
  13. 21. Worked for the developement of contempory stellar classification