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Marie Curie
She is the only woman in history to win 2 Nobel Prizes. Her work on radioactivity has been of paramount importance to humankind.
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Edith Clarke
She earned her master’s degree in electrical engineering — the first woman to receive a degree from that department. She also became the first professionally employed female electrical engineer in the United States in 1922. -
Rachel Carson
American biologist well known for her writings on environmental pollution and the natural history of the sea.
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Grace Hopper
Computer programmer Grace Hopper helped develop a compiler that was a precursor to the widely used COBOL language and became a rear admiral in the U.S. Navy.
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Katherine Johnson
Katherine Johnson, an African-American space scientist and mathematician, is a leading figure in American space history and has made enormous contributions to America’s aeronautics and space programs by her incorporation of computing tools. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKxgieXQ82w -
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
British astrophysicist, scholar and trailblazer Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered the space-based phenomena known as pulsars, going on to establish herself as an esteemed leader in her field. -
Lydia Villa-Komaroff
Villa-Komaroff made waves with a published paper detailing her most notable discovery — that bacteria could be engineered to produce human insulin -
Ellen Ochoa
Dr. Ellen Ochoa became the first Hispanic woman to go to space when she served on a nine-day mission aboard the space shuttle Discovery. -
Cynthia Breazeal
Cynthia Breazeal founded and directs the Personal Robots Group at MIT’s Media Lab. Her research focuses on developing the principles and technologies for building personal robots that are socially intelligent.
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Maryam Mirzakhani
She won one of math's most prestigious prizes, the Fields Medal. Mirzakhani was the only woman to have ever won the prize, which is handed out to mathematicians under age 40.
https://www.wired.com/2014/08/maryam-mirzakhani-fields-medal/
