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- 2. the American computer scientist in the United States army where she was an admiral. She was born December 9, 1906, New York. She was a researcher at Harvard where she worked on Mark I the first large scale calculator. She then went on to help develop the Flow-Matic, the first English-language data-processing compiler. She retired from the military at 79. She was the oldest officer on active U.S. naval duty and posthumously awarded the presidential medal of freedom.
- 3. An american engineer, physician and former NASA astronaut born in 1956 who became the first black women to go to space. She graduated highschool at 16 and went to Stanford university and earned degrees in chemical engineering and African American studies. She then went to med school at Cornell and went abroad with the peace corps and helped curate a hepatitis B vaccine. It was in 1988 that she became a NASA astronaut and in 1992 she went on a week-long journey on the mission shuttle Endeavour.
- 7. The American pharmacologist born in 1918 who received the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine in 1988 for the development of drugs used to treat several major diseases. She also won the National Medal of Science in 1991 and was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame.
- 8. is an Austrian physicist who helped discover the element protactinium and nuclear fission. She and Otto Han worked together to discover the isotope protactinium, and they studied beta decay and the properties of Uranium. She then had to leave her research to escape the Nazis but still continued her fission work observing the splitting of Uranium's nucleus and even came up with the term fission. Posthumously the chemical element meitnerium was later named in her honour.
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- 1. born December 10, 1815 was an English mathematician who worked with Charles Babbage on a program for his prototype of an electronic computer. She has been called the first computer programmer. She was noble and educated but largely by herself. Her early advancements are much appreciated and there is even a day for her where women in science are celebrated.
- 4. born in Poland on November 7, 1867 was a Polish-French scientist who focused on radioactivity. She was awarded the Nobel Prize twice, once in 1903 with her husband and another researcher for physics and then again in 1911 by herself for chemistry making her the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. She discovered both radium and polonium. Upon her death, her ashes were enshrined in the Panthéon in Paris where she was the first woman to receive this honour for her own achievements.
- 5. born July 25, 1920 in London, England is a british chemist who is mostly remembered for her discoveries in finding the molecular structure of DNA and her work with Jacques Méring studying X-ray diffraction technology. Her death in 1958 halted her research, but her work helped push science forward.
- 6. born in 1902 in Connecticut, she was an American scientist who is best known for her discovery of mobile genetic elements or “jumping genes”. She attended Cornell university and graduated with a Ph.D. in cytology, genetics, and zoology. She spent her entire career studying the genetics and chromosomes of corn and through this she was able to discover the chromosomes in basic genetics. She did win a nobel prize for it in 1983.