WiTells Crossword - LGBTQ+ Scientists

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  1. 3. Canadian mycologist; expert on how fungi affect human health and the environment; LGBTQ+ activist and commentator on HIV/AIDS
  2. 7. Tracked down Mary Mallon ("Typhoid Mary"), the first known healthy carrier of typhoid; founded the American Child Hygiene Association
  3. 8. Prominent arachnologist who is the world’s only woman expert on scorpions; Schlinger Chair of Arachnology at the California Academy of Sciences
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  1. 1. pioneer in understanding glial cell functions; former Chair of the Neurobiology Department at the Stanford University School of Medicine
  2. 2. Co-founder of the National Gay Task Force in the U.S.; AIDS researcher
  3. 4. NASA’s first female astronaut; operated the robotic arm on the Challenger SPAS-1
  4. 5. first woman to be President of the International Society for Reef Studies; conducted research on coral reef ecosystems, creating “super corals” that are more resistant to climate change
  5. 6. American physician and tuberculosis researcher; one of the first trans men to undergo a hysterectomy in the U.S.