Women in Science and Math

Alice Ball was responsible for___________________.

• developing a natural remedy using ester ethyl.

• curing cancer.

• illustrating insects

• covid 19 vaccine

Willie Hobbs Moore was an _______________.

• astronaut

• inventor

• electrical engineer

• physicist

Elizabeth Cady Stanton __________________.

• ran for President

• discovered radioactivity

• flew across the Pacific Ocean

• organized the first women's rights convention

Marie Currie received __________________.

• recognition for space travel

• two Nobel Peace prizes for discovering Radium and polonium

• great recognition and wealth for creating Barbie

• persecution in Austria

May Edward Chinn

• was the first African American to graduate from Bellevue Hospital Medical College.

• received a doctorate from Cambridge

• created Barbie

• created ironing board

Rosalyn Franklin

• first American woman to fly in space

• discovered nuclear fission

• discovered that chimpanzees make tools, eat and hunt for meat, and have similar social behavior to humans

• received a doctorate from Cambridge

Tracy Fullerton was a __________________.

• Chemist

• Physicist

• Physician

• Anthropologist

Barbara McClintock________________

• discovered that chimpanzees make tools, eat and hunt for meat, and have similar social behavior to humans

• invented soap

• held the very first patent for her invention of the ironing board

• She was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology as one of her 7 awards.

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Lise Meitner

• discovered that nuclear fission can produce enormous amounts of energy

• was an Anthropologist

• was the director of the Curie Laboratory

• made major advancement in technology

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Rebecca Lee Crumpler

• made $900,000 in the first year of introduction of Barbie

• won 2 Nobel Peace prizes

• 1st African American to earn a doctor of medicine degree

• was a Jewish Immigrant, fought medical conditions