Women scientists from XX and XXI centuries

By Arkaitz.S

  • Marie Curie

    Marie Curie
    Appart for helping in the discovery of the radiactivity, her big discovery was founding two new chemical elements.
    She founded the Radium.
    *She was the first women recibing a Nobel price.

  • Lise Meitner

    Lise Meitner
    She found the nuclear fusion. She worked with na boy.
    *His partner recived all the recognitions and prizes.

  • Irène Joliot-Curie

    Irène Joliot-Curie
    The daughter of Marie Curie. She was interested in her parents works since she was a child.
    She worked as her mother's helper, and she won a nobel price because of her investigations around the nuclear physic.

  • Barbara McClintock

    Barbara McClintock
    She worked with corn, and she was the first seing chromosomes. Because of this, she proposed the theory of the genetic recombination.
    Appart from this, she created the genetic map of the corn.
    *She won the Nobel price.

  • Grace Hopper

    Grace Hopper
    Also called "Amazing Grace". Computer programming was first. He created the programming language.
    * The United States marines named him a warlike vessel.

  • Dorothy Hodgkin

    Dorothy Hodgkin
    She made a lot of biochemistry investigations using the X-rays.
    Since Robert Robinson give her insulin, she started working with it too.
    She edited the theory of the biomolecules, explaining some new structures.

  • Rosalind Franklin

    Rosalind Franklin
    Everything we know of DNA we know thanks to her.

  • Stephanie Kwolek

    Stephanie Kwolek
    The great discovery of honey was made up of polypharephenylene terephthalamide. Kevlar is a fiber that can be five times harder than steel. Nowadays, it is used to make vestal vests.

  • Lynn Margulis

    Lynn Margulis
    She is the creator of the endosbiosis and symbogenesis theories.
    She greatly anticipated cell research and the evolution of species.

  • Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard

    Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
    She undertook experiments and studies on the genus of fruit fly. He undertook great advances in embryonic research.
    * As a result of the Nobel Prize, this type of fly changed its name to the zebra fish.

  • Elizabeth Helen Blackburn

    Elizabeth Helen Blackburn
    Elizabeth was the first biochemist studying telomeres. Telomers are the end chromosomes of the eukaryotic cells, which are necessary for the division of the cells and maintain chromosome integrity and stability. Telomerase enzymes, which make up DNA doubling telomeres, are those that guide cellular life.