orviss health 4 national womens history month

Women Inspiring Innovation Through Imagination: Celebrating Women in Science, Technology,

Engineering, and Mathematics March, 2013

The National Women’s History Project

Honorees

March, 2013

Marilyn BarrettK-12 STEM Educator & Coordinator of Science

Instruction for Worchester County Public Schools

Olga Frances LinaresAnthropologist and Archaeologist, work centers on the

social organization and agrarian practices of the Jola peoples living in the Casamance region of Southern Senegal

Helen GreinerMechanical Engineer and Roboticist, co-founder and former

President/Chairman of iRobot Corp

Katherine Burr BlodgettPhysicist and Inventor, 1st women research scientist for General Electric Schenectady,

New York Lab

Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell – 1st female admitted to an all male medical school

Flossie Wong StaalVirologist and Molecular Biologist, her team deciphered the structure

of the HIV virus as the cause of AIDS, continues pioneering work

Susan GerbiMolecular Cell Biologist, George Eggleston Professor of Biochemistry @ Brown

University, her research team devised a method to map the start of DNA replication at the nucleotide level

Hattie Elizabeth AlexanderPediatrician/Microbiologist, developed 1st effective remedies for

Haemophilus Influenzae, drastically reducing mortality rates

Julia MorganArchitect, 1st woman architect licensed in California

Mary G. RossMechanical Engineer, 1st woman engineer at Lockheed’s Missiles

Systems Division (1952) 1st known Native American woman engineer

Dian FosseyPrimatologist and Naturalist, studied the gorillas of Rwanda made

many discoveries documented in Gorillas in the Mist (1983)

Edith ClarkeElectrical Engineer, 1st woman professor of Electrical

Engineering at the University of Texas @ Austin

Rita R. Colwell, PhDMolecular Microbial Ecologist and Science Administrator, 1st woman Director

of the National Science Foundation, leader in K-12 STEM Education

Rear Admiral Grace Murray HopperComputer Scientist/Pioneer in Programming, U.S. Navy Officer

Jill PipherMathematician, president of the Association of Women in

Mathematics, and director of he Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics

Louise PearcePhysician and Pathologist, Rockefeller Institute, contributed to cure for African Sleeping

Sickness (1919) and tested the drug in Belgian Congo (1920)

Susan SolomonAtmospheric Chemist, Ellen Swallow Richards Professor of

Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Science @ MIT

Patricia Era Bath, O.D.Ophthalmologist, Inventor of the Laserphaco Probe an

advancement in laser cataract surgery, 1st AA woman doctor to receive a patent for a medical purpose

GREAT WOMEN RULERS OF SCIENCE

Countess of LovelaceMathematician, 1st Computer Programmer

Dr. James Miranda Stuart Barry1st woman Surgeon in UK

possibly transgendered or intersexed

Florence Sabin1st woman to hold a full professorship @

John Hopkins School of Medicine

Annie JUMP CannonContributor , Contemporary Stellar Classifications

Inge LehmannSeismologist, Discovered the Earth’s Inner Core

Marie Curie1st woman to win Nobel Peace Prizes in multiple

sciences Physics 1903 & Chemistry 1911

Gerty Cori1st U.S. woman to win a

Nobel Peace Prize in Science 1947

Irène Joliot Curiejointly with her husband Frédéric Joliot-Curie was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in

Chemistry in 1935 for the discovery of artificial radioactivity

Rachel Fuller BrownAlong w/ assistant Elizabeth L. Hazen developed the 1st effective

antibiotic against fungal disease in humans

Margaret MeadOne of the greatest contributors to

Cultural Anthropology and sexual mores in western culture

Barbara McClintockCytogeneticist, awarded 1983 Nobel Laureate in

Physiology/Medicine

Henrietta Lacks – The Immortal Life of HeLa

Sally Kristen RideIn 1983 became 1st American woman and youngest at 32 to enter space

Maria Goeppert MayerTheoretical Physicist, 1963 Nobel laureate for proposing the nuclear

shell model of the atomic nucleus

Rita Levi MontalciniItalian Neurologist along w/ Stanley Cohen received the 1986 Nobel

Prize in Physiology/Medicine for the discovery of nerve growth factor (NGF)

Dorothy Mary HodgkinBritish Chemist, Credited with the development of protein

crystallography, confirmation of the structures of penicillin and vitamin B12, 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Gertrude ElionBiochemist, 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine for

the development of new drugs that lead to AIDS drug AZT

Rosalind E. FranklinBritish Biophysicist, X-Ray crystallographer, Contributor to the understanding

of fine molecular structures of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal and graphite

Dame Jane M. GoodallBritish Primatologist, Ethologist, Anthropologist, chimpanzee expert and UN Messenger of Peace

Hypatia of AlexandriaGreek Neoplatonist Philosopher, Astronomer & Mathematician