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Women in Science

By Celia Cruz

  • Marie Curie

    Marie Curie
    Physicist and chemist. Studied radioactivity and X-Rays.Discovered polonium.

  • Lise Meitner

    Lise Meitner
    Physicist.Discovered nuclear fission.

  • Barbara MacClintock

    Barbara MacClintock
    Geneticist. Discovered jumping genes. Mother of modern genetics

  • Rachel Carson

    Rachel Carson
    Environmentalist. Warned against the dangers of pesticides.

  • Rita Levi-Montalcini

    Rita Levi-Montalcini
    Neurologist. Discovered how some nerves grow.

  • Dorothy Hodgkin

    Dorothy Hodgkin
    Biochemist. Developed the way we can see very small molecules (structures of penicillin, vitamin B12).

  • Chien Shiung Wu

    Chien Shiung Wu
    Physicist. Helped create the first nuclear weapons. More knowledge about the atom.Disproved the Law of of Conservation of Parity.

  • Gertrude B. Elion

    Gertrude B. Elion
    Biochemist and a pharmacologist. Found new medicines for diseases: leukemia, AIDS, meningitis, malaria.

  • Rosalind Franklin

    Rosalind Franklin
    Biologist. Helped discover the structure of DNA.

  • Elizabeth Blackburn

    Elizabeth Blackburn
    Geneticist. She found the sturcture of genes.