Women's History Month STEM

2. They proved to be highly adept at operating the instruments and optimizing uranium production,
5. Lillian Moller Gilbreth was an American psychologist and industrial engineer at the turn of the 20th century.
6. an electrical engineer and founder and CEO, Black Girls Code
8. was a food economist and statistician whose work on poverty thresholds pioneered the way the U.S. Government defines poverty.
10. he played a huge role in calculating key trajectories in the Space Race -- calculating the trajectory for Alan Shepard
12. n American chemist known for her research on dairy products and food security issues.
15. Roqué wrote the Botany of the Antilles, the most comprehensive study of flora in the Caribbean.
16. She developed a business computing language known as COBOL, which is still in use today.
17. was a marine biologist and environmentalist whose book, Silent Spring, the catalyst for the modern environmental movement.
18. discovered that bacteria could be engineered to produce human insulin.
19. Koch She broke the record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman set by former station commander Peggy Whitson.

1. Her research led to accepted standards for the refrigeration of food products.
3. a renowned leader in materials development for 3D printing
4. She was the first Hispanic woman to go to space when she served on a nine-day mission aboard the space shuttle Discovery.
7. the first female president of Harvey Mudd College and has raised the percentage of women majoring in computer science.
9. Ruth Rogan Benerito was an American chemist and pioneer in bioproducts.
11. the Gail E. Kendall Professor and head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT
13. She is considered to be the founder of scientific computing and the first computer programmer.
14. She worked as a “computer,” performing difficult mathematical calculations before modern-day computers .