Women of Science

Question 1

Who invented Frequency Hopping that would lead to Wi-Fi?

Accepted Answer

Hedy Lamarr

Question 2

Who is best known for her 55+ year study of social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees?

Accepted Answer

Jane Goodall

Question 3

Who was the first computer programmer?

Accepted Answer

Ada Lovelace

Question 4

Who established the modern discipline known as surface science?

Accepted Answer

Agnes Pockels

Question 5

Whose work on thin graphite allow electronics in small smartphones and clothing?

Accepted Answer

Mildred Dresselhaus

Question 6

Who was a computer programmer who invented the first compiler related tools that led to COBOL?

Accepted Answer

Grace Hopper

Question 7

Who was the first American woman in space?

Accepted Answer

Sally Ride

Question 8

Whose book Silent Spring led to a nationwide ban on DDT and other pesticides?

Accepted Answer

Rachel Carson

Question 9

Who was the botanist that was the first person to publish a book with photographic images?

Accepted Answer

Anna Altkins

Question 10

Who was the DuPont chemist who invented Kevlar?

Accepted Answer

Stephanie Kwolek

Question 11

Who discovered, in an x-ray, the double helix structure of DNA?

Accepted Answer

Rosalind Franklin

Question 12

Who was the first female African-American Engineer? Hint: She's a Hidden Figure

Accepted Answer

Mary Jackson

Question 13

Who was the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine?

Accepted Answer

Gerty Cori

Question 14

Who studied the mechanisms of genetics in corn and won a Nobel Prize for it?

Accepted Answer

Barbara McClintock

Question 15

Who discovered that the Earth has a solid inner core inside a molten outer core?

Accepted Answer

Inge Lehmann

Question 16

Who founded the Green Belt Movement, an environmental organization focused on planting trees?

Accepted Answer

Wangari Maathai

Question 17

Who was a nurse during the Civil War and founded the American Red Cross?

Accepted Answer

Clara Barton

Question 18

Who was the first African-American woman in space?

Accepted Answer

Mae C. Jemison

Question 19

Whose work in biology lead to the process of human in vitro fertilization?

Accepted Answer

Anne McLaren

Question 20

Who discovered the XY chromosome sex-determination system?

Accepted Answer

Nettie Stevens

Question 21

Who has been nicknamed "the First Lady of Physics" and the "Queen of Nuclear Research"?

Accepted Answer

Chien Shiung Wu

Question 22

Whose work on electric arcs lead to a Hughes Medal from the Royal Society?

Accepted Answer

Hertha Ayrton

Question 23

Who discovered galaxy rotations?

Accepted Answer

Vera Rubin

Question 24

Who created the star classification OBAFGKM?

Accepted Answer

Annie Jump Cannon

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