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Women Inspiring Innovation Through Imagination: Celebrating Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics March, 2013

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Page 1: Orviss health 4 national womens history month

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

Engineering, and Mathematics March, 2013

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The National Women’s History Project

Honorees

March, 2013

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Marilyn BarrettK-12 STEM Educator & Coordinator of Science

Instruction for Worchester County Public Schools

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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

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Helen GreinerMechanical Engineer and Roboticist, co-founder and former

President/Chairman of iRobot Corp

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

New York Lab

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

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

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

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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

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

Haemophilus Influenzae, drastically reducing mortality rates

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Julia MorganArchitect, 1st woman architect licensed in California

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

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

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Dian FosseyPrimatologist and Naturalist, studied the gorillas of Rwanda made

many discoveries documented in Gorillas in the Mist (1983)

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Edith ClarkeElectrical Engineer, 1st woman professor of Electrical

Engineering at the University of Texas @ Austin

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

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

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

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Jill PipherMathematician, president of the Association of Women in

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

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

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

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Susan SolomonAtmospheric Chemist, Ellen Swallow Richards Professor of

Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Science @ MIT

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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

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GREAT WOMEN RULERS OF SCIENCE

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Countess of LovelaceMathematician, 1st Computer Programmer

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Dr. James Miranda Stuart Barry1st woman Surgeon in UK

possibly transgendered or intersexed

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Florence Sabin1st woman to hold a full professorship @

John Hopkins School of Medicine

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Annie JUMP CannonContributor , Contemporary Stellar Classifications

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Inge LehmannSeismologist, Discovered the Earth’s Inner Core

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Marie Curie1st woman to win Nobel Peace Prizes in multiple

sciences Physics 1903 & Chemistry 1911

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Gerty Cori1st U.S. woman to win a

Nobel Peace Prize in Science 1947

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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

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

antibiotic against fungal disease in humans

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Margaret MeadOne of the greatest contributors to

Cultural Anthropology and sexual mores in western culture

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Barbara McClintockCytogeneticist, awarded 1983 Nobel Laureate in

Physiology/Medicine

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Henrietta Lacks – The Immortal Life of HeLa

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

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

shell model of the atomic nucleus

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

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

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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

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Gertrude ElionBiochemist, 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine for

the development of new drugs that lead to AIDS drug AZT

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

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

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

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Hypatia of AlexandriaGreek Neoplatonist Philosopher, Astronomer & Mathematician