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- 2. the first Black woman to become chair of a college science department (chemistry) and possibly the first to be named a full professor at any institution of higher learning in the country.
- 3. Dubbed the "Moses of her people" and such was her success that slave owners offered a reward of $40,000 for her capture or death
- 7. considered to be the founder of scientific computing and the first computer programmer
- 8. Arrested in 1872 for voting, was tried and fined $100 for her crime.
- 9. Discovered the composition of the Earth's core
- 12. became the first professionally employed female electrical engineer in the United States in 1922
- 13. American sprinter who overcame childhood polio and went on to become a world-record-holding Olympic champion
- 16. In 1848 organized the first woman's rights convention at Seneca Falls, N.Y.
- 18. her groundbreaking book, Silent Spring, has been credited as the motivation for the modern environmental movement.
- 19. Her success is credited with creating career opportunities for future female network anchors
- 22. She began the development of computer languages written in English, rather than mathematical notation (such as COBOL)
- 23. the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, and the first person ever to fly solo from Hawaii to the U.S. mainland
- 26. Astronomer who discovered the composition of stars
- 27. the first African American woman in Congress and the first woman and African American to seek the nomination for president of the United States from one of the two major political parties
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- 1. first African American woman to earn a PhD in chemistry and made important strides in research around the connection between heart health and cholesterol
- 4. the first Black woman to conduct a cable car in San Francisco
- 5. She registered “officially” in 1967 for the Boston Marathon as ““K.V. Switzer” because women were not allowed to run marathons at the time.
- 6. an English astronomer, navigation expert, mathematician, and meteorologist who published various works on astronomy and navigation
- 10. Discovered the structure of insulin
- 11. founded the American Red Cross, and helped with ratifying the Geneva Conventions (laws that protect the war-wounded and civilians in conflict zones)
- 14. a pioneer in the field of paleontology, but wasn’t taken seriously as a scientist in her lifetime because of her gender and poor background
- 15. overcame racial bias to become the first African-American tennis player to win a Grand Slam tournament
- 17. Her calculations of orbital mechanics were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights
- 20. the first Black woman to serve as an American ambassador
- 21. the first American woman to fly in space.
- 24. the first person who was deaf and blind to earn a college degree.
- 25. first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person to win a Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two scientific fields