Women in STEM

Chien-Shiung Wu was a Chinese-American physicist who is best known for conducting the Wu experiment.

Kathrine Johnson was an African American mathematician who was critical to the Mercury and Apollo space programs.

Who wrote the first algorithm intended for a machine?

Florence Nightingale used polar area diagrams to demonstrate the impact of sanitation on soldier morality during WWII

Who spurred the rise of molecular biology using mathematical techniques and published 192 monographs?

Who was an Austrian-Swedish physicist who contributed to the discovery of nuclear fission?

Who was an English fossil collector that first completed the Ichthyosaurus and British Plesiosaurus skeletons?

Who earned more than 27 patents including a safety feature for sharp shuttles in textile mills, improved sashes, etc.?

Who was an American geneticist who discovered the phenomenon of "jumping genes"?

Grace Hopper was an American computer scientist, she is best known for developing the first compiler and COBOL.

Who produced a lipstick that would not rub off or stain in 1950, with sales over 10 million dollars in 1953?

Who was an ancient Greek philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer best known for her work on the concept of geometry?

Who was a British biophysicist whose work with X-ray diffraction images was crucial in the study of DNA?

Who was a computer scientist and systems engineer who led the development of the onboard flight software for Apollo?

Who discovered the elements polonium and radium, and who won two Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry?