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Caroline Herschel
Caroline Herschel, who was born in Hannover, discovered eight comets. She lived until she was 97 years old. She also won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society. -
Ada Lovelace
Ada Lovelace, who was born in London, was a Mathetician but unfortunately she died very young, at age 36. -
Marie Curie
Marie Curie is probably one of the most famous female scientist. Though she had French nationality, she was born in Warsaw, Poland. She did many things first. She was the first woman to win two Nobel Prizes and the first to be a teacher at the University of Paris. She studied and worked with radioactivity which is what eventually killed her. -
Lisa Meitner
Lisa Meitner was born in 1878, in Vienna, Austria and died in 1968. She contributed to the discovery of nuclear fission which earned her a Nobel Prize. Besides this, she won many other awards for her work in the field of Physics. -
Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Franklin was an English chemist whose work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal, and graphite. Unfortunately her work was not given the praise it deserved at the time. -
Margarita Salas
Margarita Salas, who died just last year, was a Spanish scientist, medical researcher, and author in the fields of biochemistry and molecular genetics. Salas' discovery of the bacterial virus Φ29 DNA polymerase was recognized by the Spanish National Research Council as the highest-grossing patent in Spain. -
Elizabeth Blackburn
Elizabeth Helen Blackburn, born on the 26th November 1948, is an Australian-American Nobel laureate who is the former President of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Before this, she was a biological researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, who studied the telomere, a structure at the end of chromosomes that protects the chromosome.
