Women in STEM

2. first African American woman to complete professional training in nursing
5. film star who invented a radio device creating the foundation for modern WiFi
8. founded the American Red Cross Nursing Service
9. first woman elected as a Fellow of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers
10. virologist that developed new imaging and diagnosis technology
13. identified and isolated the protein tuberculin
15. first African American woman in Army Nursing Corps
16. one of the female physicists on the Manhattan Project, creating the atomic weapon
21. first female surgeon in U.S. Army
26. first person to earn a PhD in astronomy from Harvard
27. discovered the structure of DNA
28. physicist who co-discovered protactinium
29. first African American on the AMA Board of Trustees
30. founder of the Mississippi Health Project and the Southeast Neighborhood House
31. first woman to earn a PhD from Cambridge
32. calculated flight paths helping send Apollo 11 to the moon in 1969

1. first woman to be an officer in the American Astronomical Society
3. first woman to serve as surgeon general of the United States
4. first Chinese woman to earn a PhD in economics at Columbia
6. first African American woman to receive a medical degree in the U.S.
7. designed standardized system of computer languages for U.S. navy
11. first American Indian woman to receive a medical degree
12. physicist who's work with Cobalt-60 contested the law of parity
14. first woman in America to receive a medical degree; Opened a medical college for women
17. biologist who wrote Silent Spring
18. Superintendent of Army Nurses during the Civil War
19. first hispanic woman to travel to space
20. environmentalist who wrote Everglades: River of Grass
22. first African American woman to become an astronaut
23. first professional astronomer in the U.S.
24. developed a treatment for leprosy before antibiotics were discovered
25. sponsored the Bolton Act, creating the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps