Women in Science and Technology

Question 1

Discovered the structure of DNA

Answer 1

Rosalind Franklin

Question 2

Were the first group of matriculated undergraduate female students at University of Edinburgh, who fought for their rights to study

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Edinburgh Seven

Question 3

Who are the members of the Edinburgh Seven

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Sophia Jex-Blake
Isabel Thorne
Edith Pechey
Matilda Chaplin
Helen Evans
Mary Anderson
Emily Bovell

Question 4

Who is the leader of the Edinburgh Seven

Answer 4

Sophia Jex-Blake

Question 5

First female astronaut

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Valentina Tereshkova

Question 6

First computer programmer

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Ada Lovelace

Question 7

Was a Polish-born physicist and chemist who made significant contributions to the fields of radioactivity and nuclear physics

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Marie Curie

Question 8

First person to explain how nuclear fission worked, and her work helped pave the way for the development of nuclear energy.

Answer 8

Lise Meitner

Question 9

First female commercial programmer

Answer 9

Mary Coombs

Question 10

First woman to fly solo from England to Australia, an 11,000-mile journey, most famous woman aviator

Answer 10

Amy Johnson

Question 11

First African-American woman to work as an engineer at NASA

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Mary Jackson

Question 12

First Hispanic woman to go to space

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Ellen Ochoa

Question 13

First woman to be awarded the Fields Medal, which is one of the highest honors in mathematics

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Maryam Mirzakhani

Question 14

First African-American women to work as a mathematician at the NASA, and she played a crucial role in many of the early space missions

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Katherine Johnson

Question 15

Founder of modern nursing

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Florence Nightingale

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An American obstetrical anesthesiologist who developed the Apgar Score, a method for assessing the health of newborn babies

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Virginia Apgar

Question 17

Invented the first compiler, a program that translates source code into machine code

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Grace Hopper

Question 18

First women to earn a Ph.D. in computer science

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Sister Mary Kenneth Keller

Question 19

First woman to win an IndyCar Series race. She also competed in NASCAR and was the first woman to win a NASCAR Cup Series pole position

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Danica Patrick

Question 20

Became the first woman to earn an electrical engineering degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Edith Clarke

Question 21

She is best known for her contribution to the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, completed in 1883

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Emily Roebling

Question 22

Heralded as a pioneer in the field of industrial engineering and psychology, and often referred to as the ‘Mother of Modern Management’

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Lillian Gilbreth

Question 23

Invented the kevlar

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Stephanie Kwolek

Question 24

Was an Austrian-American actress and inventor who pioneered the technology that would one day form the basis for today’s WiFi, GPS, and Bluetooth communication systems

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Hedy Lamarr

Question 25

First African-American woman to earn a PhD in mathematics

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Euphemia Lofton Haynes

Question 26

The first woman in the United States to be granted an MD degree

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Elizabeth Blackwell, MD

Question 27

First woman dean of a U.S. medical school

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Ann Preston, MD

Question 28

Alzheimer’s disease, cerebral palsy, Parkinson’s disease, schizophrenia — scientists’ understanding of these conditions and many more are founded on the groundbreaking research of

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Patricia Goldman-Rakic, PhD

Question 29

Known for introducing the domain name protocol; she’s the one to thank for the dot coms, dot nets, and dot govs used daily

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Elizabeth Feinler

Question 30

Known to be the first person to ever have a PC in their home

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Mary Wilkes

Question 31

The only woman among the group of men who built the Smalltalk-80 programming language, used to create one of the first modern Graphics User Interface (GUI) featuring windows, icons, menus, and pointers (WIMP)

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Adele Goldberg

Question 32

She developed and implemented code used in researching energy-conversion systems, analyzing alternative power technology—including the battery technology that was used for early hybrid vehicles, as well as for the Centaur upper-stage rocket

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Annie Easley

Question 33

First Asian-born player to win a Grand Slam singles tournament

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Li Na

Question 34

Was an American author, advocate, and human right pioneer. Being both deaf and blind since childhood

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Helen Keller

Question 35

Was a Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize winning author. Her best works include The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon and Beloved, which all feature detailed African-American narratives

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Toni Morrison

Question 36

The first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature

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Selma Lagerlöf

Question 37

The First Woman to Ever Win the ‘Nobel Prize of Math’

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Karen Uhlenbeck

Question 38

The first woman to be awarded the Prize in Physiology or Medicine

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Gerty Cori

Question 39

The first female president in the world

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Vigdís Finnbogadóttir (Iceland, 1980-1996)

Question 40

Listed as the world’s wealthiest woman

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Francoise Bettencourt Meyers

Question 41

She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economics

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Elinor Ostrom

Question 42

Youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Malala Yousafzai