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WorksheetsTAB 1/19/2021 icebreaker
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 11mins
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.
Katherine Johnson
Dorothy Hodgkin
Gertrude B. Elion
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Who is best known for writing the first computer algorithm during her collaboration with Charles Babbage on the Analytical Engine?
Rosalind Franklin
Augusta Ada King
Lise Meitner
Hedy Lamarr
She was an American astronaut and physicist. She joined NASA in 1978 and became the first American woman in space in 1983.
Elizabeth Blackburn
Alice Ball
Sophie Germain
Sally Ride
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”
Ada Yonath
Linda B. Buck
Grace Hopper
Tu Youyou
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.
Rachel Carson
Barbara McClintock
Lise Meitner
Marie Curie
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.
Florence Nightingale
Inge Lehmann
Sofia Kovalevskaya
Linda B. Buck
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.
Elizabeth Blackburn
Esther Lederberg
Carol Greider
Donna Strickland
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
Nettie Stevens
Rosalyn Yalow
Mary Wilkes
Mae Jemison
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.
Jennifer Doudna
Radia Perlman
Virginia Apgar
Sophie Germain
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.
Sandra Faber
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
Ellen Swallow Richards
Maryam Mirzakhani
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.
Maria Gaetana Agnesi
Tu Youyou
Elizabeth Feinler
Stephanie Kwolek
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.
Carol Greider
Laura Bassi
Rachel Carson
Gertrude B. Elion
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.
Emmy Noether
Jane Goodall
Vera Rubin
Jennifer Doudna
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.
Émilie du Châtelet
Mary Somerville
Virginia Apgar
Rosalind Franklin
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
Dian Fossey
Margret Hamilton
Ada Yonath
Maria Gaetana Agnesi
