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WorksheetsMUJERES_CIENCIA_IESJTURINA_2019
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 40mins
Which woman created the term software engineering?
Mary Anderson
Margaret Hamilton
Mileva Maric
Margaret Sanger
Who was regarded as "Lady Edison"?
Caroline Herschel
Inge Lehmann
Mary Anderson
Beulah Louise Henry
Which women's rights activist advocated for the use of birth control, a controversial topic?
Barbara McClintock
Rita Montalcini
Margaret Sanger
Margaret Hamilton
Who was married to Einstein and is rumored to have helped with his theory of relativity?
Mileva Maric
Inge Lehmann
Henrietta Leavitt
Mary Anderson
This astronomer helped her brother prove that gravity exists outside of the solar system.
Barbara McClintock
Margaret Sanger
Caroline Herschel
Henrietta Leavitt
Barbara McClintock was awarded the Nobel Prize for her work in _______.
Physiology
Genetics
Medicine
Physics
Inge Lehmann was a _______ who discovered the centre of the Earth was both liquid and solid.
Cytogeneticist
Physicist
Activist
Seismologist
Which neuroscientist was awarded the Nobel Prize for her discovery of nerve growth factor?
Rita Levi Montalcini
Margaret Hamilton
Beulah Henry
Margaret Sanger
This astronomer discovered a way to measure the distance between Earth and galaxies.
Margaret Sanger
Barbara McClintock
Henrietta Leavitt
Mary Anderson
This chemist invented a very strong and heat resistant synthetic fiber called Kevlar.
Stephanie Kwolek
Gertrude Elion
Maria Sibylla Merian
Rosalind Franklin
Which woman played an important role in the creation of the atomic bomb?
Agnodice
Jude Milhon
Maria Teresa
Chien Shiung Wu
This woman should have won the Nobel Prize for her discovery of DNA´s structure.
Jude Milhon
Rosalind Franklin
Gertrude Elion
Stephanie Kwolek
Who taught herself how to program computers and advocated for the publics use of the internet?
Jude Milhon
Maria Sibylla Merian
Vera Rubin
Agnodice
Which woman was accused of helping the Republican army during the Spanish Civil War?
Maria Teresa Toral
Maria Sibylla Merian
Rosalind Franklin
Vera Rubin
This woman was one of the first astronomers to study dark matter.
Vera Rubin
Stephanie Kwolek
Agnodice
Rosalind Franklin
All of the following are true about Agnodice except...
she was born in Greece.
she was unable to remove the law which banned women from becoming physicians.
she disguised herself as a man because women weren't allowed to practice medicine.
she helped women who were pregnant.
This woman saved many lives by creating a drug which treated Leukemia and played an important role in discovering a treatment for AIDS.
Rosalind Franklin
Gertrude Elion
Vera Rubin
Stephanie Kwolek
This entomologist was one of the first scientist in this field of study and she discovered many new insect species
Maria Sibylla Merian
Elizabeth Blackwell
Rosalind Franklin
Chien Shiung Wu
This computer scientist helped program the Mark I, one of the first electronic computers.
Dorothy Hodgkin
Grace Hopper
Jane Goodall
Patricia Bath
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
