Famous Scientists

3. Chemist who made a leprosy drug from chaulmoogra oil
6. 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
9. The first scientist to clone HIV and create a map of its genes
10. Mathematician who worked on hyperbolic geometry
12. She discovered artemisinin used to treat malaria
13. Chemist who conducted research on radioactivity
16. This 21-year old scientist is one of the designers and structural analysts building the Space Launch System for NASA which is set to send people to Mars
17. American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral
18. American mathematician who developped the satellite geodesy models that were eventually incorporated into the Global Positioning System (GPS)
19. She is the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, Goodall is best known for her 60-year study of social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees

1. Mathematician who made the mechanical general purpose
2. She orbited the Earth 48 times, spent almost three days in space, and to date remains the only woman to have been on a solo space mission
4. She contributed in the field of nuclear physics
5. First African-American woman to have earned a doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
7. Austrian-Swedish physicist who contributed to the discoveries of the element protactinium and nuclear fission
8. India's first female plant scientist
11. Discovered DNA Structure
14. She discovered the existence of dark matter, the strange glue that holds the universe together
15. Enginner, physician and former NASA astronaut