WOMEN IN SCIENCE

This chemist found a cure for a disease which caused numbness, skin lesions, and damage to the nerves and eyes.

• Marie Curie

• Lise Meitner

• Lillian Gilbreth

• Alice Ball

Which woman not only helped Einstein with his theory of relativity but also created the field of abstract algebra?

• Hypatia

• Emmy Noether

• Lillian Gilbreth

• Alice Ball

Hypatia was an astronomer, mathematician and philosopher who made many speeches about which two philosophers?

• Socrates and Plato

• Socrates and Aristotle

• Plato and Aristotle

Who is known as the first computer programmer?

• Wang Zhenyi

• Joan Beauchamp Procter

• Lillian Gilbreth

• Ada Lovelace

All of the following are true about Marie Curie except...

• She was awarded the Nobel Prize for her discovery of radiation

• She was awarded the Nobel Prize for her discovery of polonium and radium

• She was a physicist and a chemist

• She didn't discover the treatment for cancer

Which woman was an expert in herpetology, the study of reptiles and amphibians?

• Alice Ball

• Joan Beauchamp Procter

• Lise Meitner

• Ada Lovelace

Why didn't Lise Meitner receive the Nobel Prize for her contribution to the discovery of nuclear fission?

• She passed away

• She didn't believe she deserved it

• She couldn't go to Germany as she was Jewish and the Nazi's were in power

• She disliked Otto Hahn, the man who helped her with the discovery, and didn't want to see him

This psychologist turned industrial engineer was important to women because she helped them complete home tasks quickly.

• Lillian Gilbreth

• Lise Meitner

• Emmy Noether

• Hypatia

Which astronomer, mathematician and poet was one of the first people to study eclipses?

• Hypatia

• Alice Ball

• Wang Zhenyi

• Ada Lovelace

This paleontologist proved the extinction of dinosaurs by finding their remains.

• Marie Curie

• Alice Ball

• Lillian Gilbreth

• Mary Anning