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TAB 1/19/2021 icebreaker

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

NASA Space Scientist - She and her colleagues, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson did the calculations that guided NASA’s 1962 Friendship 7 Mission. A teacher and research mathematician, she co-authored over 25 scientific papers.

a)

Katherine Johnson

b)

Dorothy Hodgkin

c)

Gertrude B. Elion

d)

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

2.

Who is best known for writing the first computer algorithm during her collaboration with Charles Babbage on the Analytical Engine?

a)

Rosalind Franklin

b)

Augusta Ada King

c)

Lise Meitner

d)

Hedy Lamarr

3.

She was an American astronaut and physicist. She joined NASA in 1978 and became the first American woman in space in 1983.

a)

Elizabeth Blackburn

b)

Alice Ball

c)

Sophie Germain

d)

Sally Ride

4.

An American computer scientist, and a Rear Admiral in the US Navy, she invented the first programming language to use english words. She is seen as a key inventor of the language COBOL, a widely-used programming language. She coined the term “debugging”

a)

Ada Yonath

b)

Linda B. Buck

c)

Grace Hopper

d)

Tu Youyou

5.

She was a chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and the only woman to win the Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win the Nobel Prize in two scientific fields. She was the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris in 1906.

a)

Rachel Carson

b)

Barbara McClintock

c)

Lise Meitner

d)

Marie Curie

6.

she was credited for reducing the death rate from 42% to 2%. She was a visionary designer of hospital systems and pioneered the improvement of sanitation in working-class homes. She is known as the inventor of modern nursing.

a)

Florence Nightingale

b)

Inge Lehmann

c)

Sofia Kovalevskaya

d)

Linda B. Buck

7.

She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, along with Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak, for her discovery of telomerase, a member of the reverse transcriptase family of enzymes.

a)

Elizabeth Blackburn

b)

Esther Lederberg

c)

Carol Greider

d)

Donna Strickland

8.

She joined the digital computer group and contributed to the LNC development of TX-2, as she designed and wrote the operators manual for the final console design. She is known for helping develop the first personal computer and was also the first person to have a PC in her home

a)

Nettie Stevens

b)

Rosalyn Yalow

c)

Mary Wilkes

d)

Mae Jemison

9.

She invented the spanning tree algorithm and the spinning tree protocol. The spinning tree algorithm transformed ethernet from a single wire CSMA into a protocol that could handle large clouds. She is known as the ‘mother of the internet’ and for creating STP which is fundamental for the operation of network bridges.

a)

Jennifer Doudna

b)

Radia Perlman

c)

Virginia Apgar

d)

Sophie Germain

10.

In the early 1980s, now collaborating with Martin Reese and others, she published an influential series of articles on cold dark matter, proving that dark matter could not be composed of fast-moving neutrinos, and thus that the hot dark matter hypothesis must be wrong.

a)

Sandra Faber

b)

Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard

c)

Ellen Swallow Richards

d)

Maryam Mirzakhani

11.

She is well known for being one of the famous women in technology for helping the Stanford research institute transition to the domain name system and introducing the domain name protocol, she’s the one to thank for the dot coms, dot nets and dot govs used daily.

a)

Maria Gaetana Agnesi

b)

Tu Youyou

c)

Elizabeth Feinler

d)

Stephanie Kwolek

12.

She is an American marine biologist and a science writer is best known for her book "Silent Spring" where she explored the long term effects of synthetic pesticides.

a)

Carol Greider

b)

Laura Bassi

c)

Rachel Carson

d)

Gertrude B. Elion

13.

She is best known for her studies of the chimpanzees at the Gombe Stream Game Reserve on Lake Tanzania. She discovered that they are omnivores and that they use tools. She became a passionate advocate of animal rights and has become the global leader of efforts to protect wild apes and their habitats.

a)

Emmy Noether

b)

Jane Goodall

c)

Vera Rubin

d)

Jennifer Doudna

14.

She was an English chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal, and graphite.

a)

Émilie du Châtelet

b)

Mary Somerville

c)

Virginia Apgar

d)

Rosalind Franklin

15.

She was the person in charge of coding Apollo 11, the very spacecraft that took us to space. She hand wrote the code of Apollo 11 along with her team

a)

Dian Fossey

b)

Margret Hamilton

c)

Ada Yonath

d)

Maria Gaetana Agnesi