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WorksheetsFemale mathematicians and scientists ICP
Total questions: 52
Worksheet time: 52mins
What was Lise Meitner interested in when she was little?
Maths
Physics
Maths and Physics
Chemistry
Where did Sophie Germain study?
École nationale d'ingénieurs de Metz
École nationale supérieure de techniques avancées
École polytechnique
École Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Brest
Which college did Rosalind Franklin attend?
Oxford University
Newham College
King's College
Imperial College
Why is Elena Pastor still focused on the “study of the electrochemical oxidation of ethanol”?
Because she is creating a new boost that releases methanol to create energy
Because she does not have other published works
Because of the interest in a possible ethanol fuel cell
Because her work is unfinished and she wants to complete it
Toñi Varela is the boss of a organization that protect the starry sky called
IAC
Starlight
Mercadona
Nasa
Where did Ada Lovelace study?
At Cambridge University
At Harvard University
At Columbia University
She didn’t study at any university
Who was the teacher of Hipatia at the beginning?
A women who teach in the Alexandria Museum
His father Theon of Alexandria
A women who teach in the Alexandria Academy
Her big brother Theon of Alexandria
Where is Nayara Rodríguez currently working?
She currently works in the Management Cabinet of the Canary Islands Astrophysics Institute (IAC)
She currently works In a supermarket
She currently works in her house doing her own projects
She currently works in the NASA
Margarita Salas studied...
Chemistry
Biotechnology
Biochemistry
Technology
Vera Rubin discovered...
Movement of planets
A new element
Dark matter
A new planet
Emmy Noether was from
Germany
Belgium
Poland
Austria
Antonia Pilar Pérez works in
University Hospital of La Candelaria
San Juan de Dios Hospital
University Hospital of the Canary Islands
Doctor Negrín Hospital
Where did Antonia M. Varela Pérez make her doctoral thesis
Oxford
Cambridge
Yale
Harvard
Darshan Ranganathan received a PhD in ...
Philosophy
Chemistry
Mathematics
Biology
When Teresa Rodrigo received the Julio Peláez Prize for Pioneers in Physical, Chemical and Mathematical Sciences?
In 2010
In 2012
In 2014
In 2016
What did Stephanie Kwolek want to study when she was little?
Chemistry
Medicine
Math
Physics
When was Emmy Noether born?
23 of march 1882
15 of march 1902
30 of march 1982
22 of march 1288
What was the first invention of María del Carmen Betancourt Molina?
the steam machine
the epi cylindrical machine
the light bulb
the watch wp
Thanks to her father, what was able for Caroline Lucretia Herschel to study?
Biology, mathematics, philosophy, psychology, and music
Astronomy, psychology, music, geology, and biology
Music, mathematics,astronomy, philosofy and French
Italian, music, geology, astronomy, and mathematics
What did Chien-Shiung Wu do for two years after graduation?
She was an assistant at a University
She just was working in labs
She traveled everywhere for work or just for experience
he studied all the time because she only thought about her future job
In which University does Mary Cartwright get her first qualification degree?
University of St. Hugh
University of Birmingham
University of Cambridge
University of Pittsburgh
Where was Alice Ball born?
United States
Pennsylvania
Chicago
Washington
Mary Cartwright was born in..?
1902
1856
1900
1898
What was the master’s thesis of Alice Ball about?
About the ball method
About the Kava Plants
About the Cervus elaphus
About bee pollination
What field of study is Katherin Johnson known for?
Mathematics and Chemistry
Mathematics
Chemistry
Astronomy
Which university did Mercedes Prieto get her Degree in Physics?
University of La Laguna
University of Harvard
University of Cambridge
University of Seville
When was Caroline Herschel born ?
June 2004
January 1750
March 1750
March 1570
What are the chemical elements found by Marie Curie?
Oxygen and Hydrogen
Helium and Neon
Polonium and Radium
Curium and Uranium
Why did Jocelyn Burnell become interested in astronomy?
Because she went out at night to see the stars with her father
Because she read books of astronomy in the library of her father
Because her father was an astronomer
There is no reason
Where did Hypatia of Alexandria travel to be a teacher?
France
UK and Ireland
Athens and Rome
She always lived in Egypt
What doctoral thesis is Nayra Rodriguez Eugenio doing?
About the systems and relation between stars
About rocks and mineral salts
About the route of the planets in TRAPPIST-1
About properties of star-forming galaxies and their evolution
What did María la Judía study?
Alchemy
Astronomy
Geology
Biology
Was it hard for Clara Immerwahr to enter a german university?
Not at all, she could enter whenever she wanted
She couldn’t apply for a university
Yes, it was hard, but with hard work she could finally enter
None of the answers are correct
What did Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin discover?
She discovered that stars are made largely of hydrogen and helium
She discovered that the sun's composition is similar to the earth’s
She discovered that stars are made largely of hydrogen and mercury
None of the answers are correct
When Katherine Johnson worked for NASA, what was her contribution to mathematics?
She improved the calculation computers and adapted them to the needs
She never worked for NASA
She never made any scientific contribution, just ethics and equality issues
Apart from his own work, she made no other contribution
Where did Toñi Valera finally finish her final thesis?
In Madrid
She never planned to finish it
In Cambridge,she got an incredible offer to finish it there
She stayed at the IAC,and finished it a few months after
Who is the father of Hipatia?
William Shakespeare
mathematician Theon
Zeus
Pitágoras
what happened In the 1940s with Carlota de la Quintana y López de Arroyave?
She started to study science
nothing special
Her brother died
she returned to the island as the first doctor from the Canary Islands, practicing in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
What was the greatest discovery of Margarita Salas?
The liquid state
The DNA polymerase protein produced by the bacterial virus
The light
The cure for several illness
Who encouraged Dorothy Hodgkin since she was little in her interest in chemistry and crystals?
F.M. Brewe
Her father
Her mother
John Desmond Bernal
Why couldn´t Lise Meitner go to the upper secondary school?
Due to her notes
Due to the non-access of girls
Due to her father's illness
Due to her lack of knowledge
What did Sophie Germain contribute to?
Second law of thermodynamics & Logarithms
Information Theory & Formula of the polyhedra
Theory of the approximation & Set theory
Elasticity & Theory of numbers
In which university does Edith Padron work at?
In ULL ( University of La Laguna)
In Universidad Europea de Canarias
In Universidad del Atlántico Medio in Las Palmas
In Univerdad Fernando Pessoa Canarias in Las Palmas
What was Marjorie Jeuck Rice interested in?
Geometry
Physics
Chemistry
Biology
Where was María Candelaria Hernández Goya born?
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
La Laguna
El Puerto de la Cruz
Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Henrietta Leavitt was graduated as a…
Astronomer
Physicist
Engineer
Mathematician
What was Katherine Johnson interested in when she was little?
Mathematics
Chemistry
History
Cooking
Where is Sofia Kovalevskaya from?
Japan
Russia
U.S.A.
Côte d'Ivoire
What did María Dolores Afonso Suárez study?
Computer Science
Bioengineering
Aerospace engineering
Telecommunication Systems Engineering
Which of these things were studied by María gaetana Agnesi?
The witch Curve
Indifference Curves
Nazca Lines
Queuin System
What made Gertrude Belle Ellion to become a biochemist?
After watching Tom and Jerry, she wanted to know the substances they were in
Her grandfather inspired her to find a cure for cancer after he died
She didn’t know what else to do
She seemed interested in science from a young age. She made her first experiment just turned 6 years old
What did Sau Lan Wu want to be at first?
Physicist
Artist
Teacher
Dancer
