Women In Science Flashcards
She is the first lady of computing and the world’s first computer programmer, A father popularly known as Lord Bryon. He is regarded as one of the greatest British poets.
Ada Lovelace
This British biophysicist was the first one discovered the structure of DNA, the basic molecule of life.
Rosalind Franklin
This Polish physicist and chemist became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize and the first person to win the Nobel Prize twice. She is known for discovering radioactivity, and Curium is named after her.
Marie Curie
This Swedish physicist worked with Otto Hahn. She is known for having discovered the nuclear fission of uranium that forms the basis of nuclear weapons.
Lise Meitner
This British zoologist is considered the world’s foremost expert on chimpanzees. She was named the United Nations Messenger of Peace in the year 2002.
Jane Goodall
Who was named the ‘UN Messenger of Peace?”
Jane Goodall
What was Ada Lovace’s father’s profession and what was he called?
Lord Bryon. One of the greatest British poets.
Lise Meitner worked with who?
Otto Hahn
This Russian cosmonaut engineer and politician became the first woman to have flown into space in 1963.
Valentina Tereshkova
In 1906, she joined the US Navy and was assigned to operate the Mark I computer. She pioneered computer programming and invented the program to form the world’s first programming language, COBOL.
Grace Murray Hopper
She was instrumental in NASA’s mission to put men on the moon, having formulated both the program and software that made it possible.
Margaret Hamilton
She is known as the Missile Woman of India for being the first woman scientist to head the Missile Project Agni-IV.
Tessy Thomas
Missile Woman of India
Tessy Thomas
She was the deputy operations director of the Mongolian mission. In her 20 years as a rocket scientist in ISRO, she has worked on 14 missions.
Nandini Harinath
She was an American astronaut and the first woman of Indian origin to travel into space. She was one of the seven crew members who died in the Space Shuttle Colombia disaster during the re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere. She was awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.
Kalpana Chawla
