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WorksheetsWomen's History Month: Science and Technology
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 28mins
Who is known as the first computer programmer?
Wang Zhenyi
Joan Beauchamp Procter
Lillian Gilbreth
Ada Lovelace
All of the following are true about Marie Curie except...
She was awarded the Nobel Prize for her discovery of radiation
She was awarded the Nobel Prize for her discovery of polonium and radium
She was a physicist and a chemist
She didn't discover the treatment for cancer
This paleontologist proved the extinction of dinosaurs by finding their remains.
Marie Curie
Alice Ball
Lillian Gilbreth
Mary Anning
Jane Goodall is a famous primatologist who discovered that it is not just humans who use tools. What animal did she study in Africa?
Organutangs
Chimpanzees
Gorillas
Lions
Who was the first woman in space?
Linda Buck
Shirley Ann Jackson
Sally Ride
Emily Roeblin
Mary Leakey is credited with discovering many 'missing links' in the fossil record. What field is she credited with changing significantly thanks to her discoveries?
Atomic theory
Human evolution
Quantum mechanics
Physics
Rosalind Franklin was unrecognized for her extremely important contribution to the discovery of the shape of what molecule?
glucose
fats
DNA
ATP
Marie Maynard Daly was the first African American woman from the U.S. to receive what degree?
PhD in Chemistry
Bachelor's of Science in Chemistry
Associate's Degree in Chemistry
Bachelor's of Science in Physics
Grace Hopper has been called the mother of the _.
computer
Navy
calculator
COBOL
This American mathematician's calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights. Who is she?
Mary Jackson
Katheryn G Johnson
Dorothy Vaughan
Grace Hopper
This American mathematician and aerospace engineer started as a computer at the segregated West Area Computing division in 1951. She took advanced engineering classes and, in 1958, became NASA's first black female engineer. Who is she?
Mary Jackson
Katheryn G Johnson
Dorothy Vaughan
Grace Hopper
______ was the first person and thus far ONLY male or female to win two Nobel Prizes.
Florence Sabin
Marie Curie
Grace M. Hopper
Rachel Carson
Who was the first African American woman in space?
Valentina Tereshkova
Mae Jemison
Annie Easley
Katia Krafft
Hypatia was an ancient greek
astronomer
mathematician
philosopher
all of the above
