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Women in STEM

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who was the first women to get Nobel prize in 1903?

a)

Gerty Cori

b)

Alice Bunn

c)

Marie Curie

d)

Mary Jackson

2.

Marie Curie : Radioactivity Rosalind Franklin : ?

a)

None

b)

Paleontology

c)

DNA

d)

NASA

3.

According to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, what percentage of the world's researchers are women?

a)

12%

 

b)

29%

c)

46%

4.

What does STEM stand for?

a)

Sustainability, Territory, Environment, Meteorology

b)

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics

c)

Statistics, Transformig, Experiments, Management

5.

Who was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physics?

a)

Vera Kistiakowsky

b)

Chien-Shiung Wu

c)

Marie Curie

6.

Who was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physics?

a)

Vera Kistiakowsky

b)

Chien-Shiung Wu

c)

Marie Curie

d)

Lise Meitner

7.

Which woman is known for her contributions to the discovery of the structure of DNA?

a)

Rosalind Franklin

b)

Barbara McClintock

c)

Dorothy Hodgkin

d)

Ada Lovelace

8.

Who was the first woman to travel into space?

a)

Valentina Tereshkova

b)

Sally Ride

c)

Mae Jemison

d)

Eileen Collins

9.

Which female scientist developed the first computer algorithm?

a)

Ada Lovelace

b)

Grace Hopper

c)

Katherine Johnson

d)

Hedy Lamarr

10.

Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in Chemistry?

a)

Marie Curie

b)

Dorothy Hodgkin

c)

Irène Joliot-Curie

d)

Ada Yonath

11.

Which woman is known for her work on radioactivity and won two Nobel Prizes?

a)

Marie Curie

b)

Lise Meitner

c)

Chien-Shiung Wu

d)

Rosalind Franklin

12.

Who was the first African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. from MIT in any field?

a)

Shirley Ann Jackson

b)

Mae Jemison

c)

Katherine Johnson

d)

Dorothy Vaughan

13.

Which woman was a key figure in the development of the CRISPR gene-editing technology?

a)

Jennifer Doudna

b)

Rosalind Franklin

c)

Barbara McClintock

d)

Ada Lovelace

14.

Who was the first woman to win the Fields Medal in mathematics?

a)

Maryam Mirzakhani

b)

Emmy Noether

c)

Sophie Germain

d)

Ada Lovelace

15.

Which female scientist is known for her pioneering work in X-ray crystallography?

a)

Dorothy Hodgkin

b)

Rosalind Franklin

c)

Ada Yonath

d)

Lise Meitner