WOMEN IN SCIENCE by TAI PASCUAL

NAME

taipascual — 2022-02-18 08:03:11 UTC

BIO

CURIOSITIES

STOOD OUT

INGE LEHMANN

2022-02-18 08:15:04 UTC

Bio:
Inge Lehmann was born on May 13, 1888 in Østerbo (Denmarkc) Inge Lehmann died in February 21, 1993 Østerbo (Denmarkc) a district of the Denmarkc capital Copenhage, the daughter of experimental psychologist Alfred Georg Ludvig Lehmann (1888-1993).

CURIOSITIES:
In 1928, she was appointed the frist head of the seismology department of the newly created Royal Danish Geodetic Institute, a position she held for 25 years.

STOOD OUT:
Inge Lehemann discovered a seismic discontinuity in 1936, wich she showed that there was a boundary between what is now known as the liquid core and the solid inner core of the Earth. She showed that the planet Earth has an inner core and an outer core.

MARIE CURIE

2022-02-18 08:17:14 UTC

BIO:
Marie Curie was born in November 7, 1867 in Poland (Varsovia), she worked as a scientist and she died with 66 years old (1867/1934) from radium radiation.

CURIOSITIES:
- Her real name was Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie.
- She received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 for the discovery of radioactive elements and Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911 for her research on radium and its compounds.
- There is currently a chemical research institute called "Institut Curie" made in his name, in France.

STOOD OUT:
- She discovered two new minerals toghether with her husband.
-She discovered that radium could be used to treat cancer.

KATHERINE JOHNSONE

2022-02-18 08:17:55 UTC

BIO: She was born in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. She worked as a physicist, rocket scientist and mathematician and she died at 101 (1918-2020).

CURIOSITIES:
She was graduated with highest honors in 1937, with 18 years old and took a job teaching in a public school in Virginia.
She was rejected in the first time she applied to the NASA.
Katherine Johnson wrote a book in space travell. She contributed to plans for Mars mission.

STOOD OUT: She contributed in APOLLO 11 mission to the moon and go back. She helped to send a rocket with tripulation to the moon, thanks to her maths.

LISE MEITNER

2022-02-18 09:55:35 UTC

BIO:
· She was born in 7 November 1878, Viena, Australia.

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Vienna, Austria-Hungary

Ada Lovelace

2022-02-18 11:30:20 UTC

Once upon a time, there was girl named Ada who loved machines.

She was born in United Kingdom, december 10, 1815. she is the good people and your history, she studied birds to work out the perfect balnce between wing size and body weight.

she created a beautiful book full of drawing called Flyology where she recorded all of her findings.

she eventually became a great person in mathematics and a writer and one of her many achievements was to be the first person to create a computer program in history.

Curi:
-its program was inspired by the perforated cards of the mechanical workshops.
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The second Tuesday in October is Ada Lovelace Day.

RACHEL CARSON

ignaciogarcia17 — 2022-02-22 08:09:44 UTC

BIOGRAPHY:
She was born in May 27th of 1907 (Springdale, United States).
In her childhood, she lived in a farm.
After she finished the studies at Johns Hopkins University, her father died so, she left the studies to have money for her family and started working at United States Fishing Office writing radio scripts of marine criatures and animal life.
She died for Breast cancer and acute myocardial infarction in April 14th of 1964 (56 years old).

CURIOSITIES:
· She wrote her first book at 8 years old.
· Awarded with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1980,
she was dead.
· Her most popular book is Silent Spring.

IMPORTANT FACTS:
Well known for her writings on environmental pollution and the natural history of the sea.

She has been credited with launching the contemporary environmental movement and awakening the concern of Americans for the environment with her books.

Since 2020 she has been awarded with the best paper submitted by an early career author.

MAE C. JEMISON

inesfrances — 2022-02-22 08:10:51 UTC

BIO:
Mae Jamison, was born October 17, 1956 Alabama. As one of the only African American students in her class, Jemison experienced racial discrimination in school.
From a young age she was interested in space travel, she also wanted to be a fashion designer, an egineer but also a dancer.
Reading a book about space travel, she decided to be an astronaut. She finally went to the space on 12 of September of 1992.
She finished studies with a title of chemical engineering, and then in medicine.

CURIOSITIES:
She has written several books and appeared on many television programs including an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
She learned to speak Rusian, Swahili, and Japanese.

STOOD OUT:
She is know for being the first African-America woman to be admitted to NASA'S astronaut training program, and in 1992 she finally traveled to space.
Jemison has been inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame and the International Space Hall of Fame.

Ada Lovelace

claragrinan — 2022-02-22 08:11:48 UTC

BIO:
Ada Lovelace was born in United Kingdom, December 10, 1815. She studied birds to work out the perfect balance between wing size and body weight.

She created a beautiful book full of drawing called Flyology where she recorded all of her findings.

STOOD OUT:
She became a great person in mathematics and a writer and one of her many achievements was to be the first person to create a computer program in history.

CURIOSITIES:

-1 She anticipated music created by computers.

-2 She was the daughter of the poet Lord Byron.

-3 She defied the mandates of the Victorian era.

-4 She died at the same age as her father.

Tu Youyou

naimahernandez — 2022-02-22 08:12:15 UTC

BIOGRAPHY:
Tu Youyou is a Chinese scientist, physician, and pharmaceutical chemist.
She was born on December, 30 1930 Ningbo, China.
She attended Peking University, graduating in 1955. After graduation, she worked as a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Medicine in Beijing.
Tu Youyou also studied traditional Chinese medicine, to cure schistosomiasis, which was widespread in the first half of the 20th century in southern China.
Now she has a quiet life with her husband and her two daughters.

CURIOSITIES:
- Her typical phrase is ''Every scientist dreams of doing something that can help the world"

STOOD OUT:
She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 2015 for his innovative anti-malarial therapy.
Youyou discovered artemisinin, a compound that has saved the lives of many infected with malaria, also a parasitic disease.

Hypatia

mateudomingo — 2022-02-22 08:21:27 UTC

Hypatia (Ὑπατία: Alexandria, 355 or 370-ibid., March 415 or 416) was a Greek Neoplatonist philosopher and teacher, a native of Egypt, who excelled in the fields of mathematics and astronomy, member and head of the Neoplatonic School of Alexandria at the beginning of the 5th century.
Astronomer, mathematician and philosopher.

STOOD OUT: She was one of the first scientists and
one of the first professor to teach mathematics in history. She contributed to mathematics and astronomy, being a teacher of philosophy at the Library of Alexandria. He invented a new version of hydrometer, an instrument used to weigh liquids.}

CURIOSITIES: Hypatia contributed to the invention of devices such as the astrolabe and the hydrometer, defended heliocentrism and studied the specific weight of liquids and Euclidean geometry. As a philosopher, she was a champion of Neoplatonic thought.

MARY ANNING

mariamari2 — 2022-02-22 09:07:49 UTC

BIO:
Mary Anning was born in May 21, 1799 and she died March 9, 1847, at 47 years old.
Mary learned a lot about fossils from her father and devoloped skills in fossil hunting.
She was one of ten children.
Although her parents had ten children, only Mary and her brother Joseph lived to adulthood.

Both she and her brother had a passion for paleontology

CURIOSITIES:
Her discoveries included the first correctly identified ichthyosaur skeleton when she was twelve years old.
She survived a lightning strike when she was only 15 months old.
People thinkshe was so cool because she got a scratch when she was little

STOOD OUT:
She was an English fossil collector, dealer and palaeontologist who made many great discoveries, the most important was her discovery of the first plesiosaur.

Rosalind Franklin

2022-02-22 09:07:51 UTC

BIOGRAPHY:
Rosalind Else Franklin, was a chemist and an x-ray chrystallographer.

She was born on July 25th, 1920 and sadly she died on April 16th, 1958 of an age of 37. She had 4 other siblings.
When she was young she always wanted to be a scientist so she studied hard, at the end it all worked out and she got accepted in the university of Cambridge.
In 1941 she graduated.
She was an expert in molecular structures of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal and graphite. Even though her works on coal and viruses were aprecciated in her lifetime, her contribution discovery on DNA and RNA moleculars were quite unrecongized.

CURIOSITIES:
· She also had a lot of nicknames through her life, for example “the dark lady of DNA”.
· In 1997, astronomer John Broughton discovered an asteroid and he named his discovery the ‘9241 Rosfranklin’ in tribute to Franklin.

STOOD OUT:
She was known for her x-ray studies that provided crucial clues to the structure of DNA quantitatively confirmed the watson-Crick DNA model.

Jane Goodall

elianyeste — 2022-02-22 09:21:01 UTC

BIOGRAPHY:
She was born on the 3 of April in 1934 in England. In 1960 she went to Tanznia to study chimpanzees. Instead of study the animals in cages, she spent time hanging with them. Jane wrote lots of books and won many awards for her environmental work.

CURIOSITIES:
- She made a “banana club”, whenever she visited the chimpanzees she gave them bananas.
- She named the chimpanzees like David Greybeard

STOOD OUT:
Dame Jane Morris Goodall was a primatologist and an anthropologist recognized like the world’s foremost expert in chimpanzees.

BARBARA MCCLINTOCK

lourdesmunoz5 — 2022-02-22 11:23:26 UTC

BIO:

She was born in June 16, 1902, in America.
She died in September 2, 1992 New York, United States at 90 years old.
Her parents were Thomas Henry McClintock and Sara Handy McClintock.
Barbara McClintock made a number of groundbreaking discoveries in genetics.

CURIOSITIES:

From the late 1920s, McClintock studied chromosomes and how they change during reproduction in maize.
In 1933, McClintock received a fellowship to work with famous German geneticist Curt Stern in Berlin.

STOOD OUT:

She turned famous at the age of 81 in 1983, when she became the first woman to win a solo Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering genetic transposition.

LISE MEITNER

martabonet2 — 2022-02-22 11:26:18 UTC

BIO:

· She was born in 7 November 1878, in Viena.

· She worked as a physic.

· She spent most of her scientific career in Berlin, Germany, where she was a physics professor and a department head at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute.

· She died in 27 October 1968 (aged 89) Cambridge, England.

Curiosities:

- Lise Meitner was the third of eight children.
- He liked mathematics from a very young age.
- She was the first woman to receive a doctorate from the University of Vienna and the second in the world.

Stood out:
- She was the first woman to become a full professor of physics in Germany.

- Meitner became the first woman from the University of Vienna and second in the world to earn a doctorate in physics.

- Lise discovered that nuclear fission can produce large amounts of energy.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

erikribas — 2022-02-22 11:26:56 UTC

BIOGRAPHY:
Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell was born in 15 July 1943. She attended the University of Glasgow, Scotland, where she received a bachelor's degree (1965) in physics. She proceeded to the University of Cambridge, England, where she was awarded a doctorate (1969) in radioastronomy.

CURIOSITIES:
Although her discovery won the Nobel Prize in 1974, she was not one of the prize's recipients.
She has been awarded 8 medals and over 15 honorary degrees from schools including the University of Michigan, University of Cambridge and the University of Glasgow.
She is an advocate for wanting to increase the number of women in professional and academic standings in the fields of physics and astronomy.

STOOD OUT:
She is famous because she discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967.
In 2014, she became the first woman to become President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

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SANDRA MAGNUS

noaplanells — 2022-02-22 11:27:32 UTC

BIO: Sandra Magnus was born and raised in Belleville on October 30, 1964, Illinois. and was also supported by a scholarship

CURIOSITIES:
She studied physics and electrical engineering from the University of Missouri–Rolla.
Sandra Magnus is an American engineer and a former NASA astronaut. She returned to Earth with the crew of STS-119 Discovery on March 28, 2009, after having spent 134 days in orbit.

From 2018-2019 Magnus was a principal at AstroPlanetView. In 2019 she became the Deputy Director for Engineering.

During the 1980s, Magnus worked on stealth aircraft design as an engineer for McDonnell Douglas.

STOOD OUT:

is an American engineer and a former NASA astronaut
Magnus was selected as an astronaut candidate in 1996.

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Sylvia Earle

marcdatsira — 2022-02-22 12:02:35 UTC

BIOGRAPHY:
Sylvia Earle was a marine biologist. She was born on august 30, 1935 in New Jersey, U.S.
When she was young, she loved to dive at
night, because you see lots of fish you don't see in the daytime.
Sylvia had a team of aquanauts who lived underwater for several weeks. They dived with all kinds of underwater vehicles and studied life in the ocean like no one did before.

CURIOSITIES:
She was the first woman to become chief scientist at the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. She also held the world record for the deepest untethered dive.

STOOD OUT:
She has studied hidden currents, discovered underwater plants, and waved to deep-sea fish.

She always says that we need to protect and take care of the ocean.

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