Women in science

By Shelby Kuhn
Rosalind Franklin
1920-1958
She was a British chemist and
studied molecules and crystals. She
helped determine the structure of
DNA and certain viruses. She had a
PhD in chemistry from Cambridge
in 1945 and studied in Paris, France
for a few years. She used Xray
diffraction for her crystallography.
She also determined the structure of
the tobacco mosaic virus leading to
the cure. Sadly, she didn’t receive
credit for any of her findings. She
died of cancer on April 16, 1958.
Mary Anning
1799-1847
She was a British scientist that found and
identified many important fossils of
prehistoric animals. She was a big leader in
paleontology and found many, including the
ichthyosaur when she was only twelve.
She also found many others including
the plesiosaur. Her discoveries helped
to create the idea evolution. She grew
up extremely poor and taught herself
anatomy, geology, paleontology, and
scientific illustration since she had
only gone to school for a few years.
Many of her findings weren’t credited
to her and many males didn’t
acknowledge her. She died of cancer
on March 9, 1847
 Marie Curie
1867-1934
She was a Polish-born French physicist that is famous
for her research on radioactivity. She was the first
person to win two Nobel prizes (one in physics and
one in chemistry) as well as the first women to win
one. She was also the first woman to teach at the
Sorbonne. Her and her husband studied the
radiation given off by various chemical elements
including uranium and thorium. They discovered two
highly radioactive elements that they named radium
and polonium. she theorized that radioactivity was a
property linked to individual atoms rather than one
that depended on the arrangements of atoms in
molecules which was found to be true( radioactive
decay or transmutation ). Marie won the Nobel Prize
in chemistry because of her discovery of the new
elements and her work in isolating radium and
studying its chemical properties. She died on July 4,
1934, from cancer.
Ada Lovelace
1815-1852
She was an English noble who wrote the
first published computer program. She
was educated privately and was
taught in a variety of subjects with an
emphasis on mathematics. She wrote
Sketch of the Analytical Engine that
contained mainly work of her own,
including how the machine could be
programmed to perform a variety of
calculations and an algorithm that
could be used to program the
machine. She also predicted the rise
of machines and how they can carry
out tasks and she anticipated
programable computers. Ada died of
cancer on November 27, 1852.
Dorothy Hodgkin
1910-1994
She was a British biochemist and
crystallographer that devoted her career to
studying the structures of complex substances
through a method called X-ray crystallographic
analysis. She won a Nobel prize in chemistry for
determining the extremely complex structure
of the vitamin B-12 molecule, which she used
the x-ray to make the discovery. Because of her
discovery scientists were able to better
understand how the body uses the vitamin to
build red blood cells and prevent a disease
called pernicious anemia. She also identified
the molecular structures of cholesterol iodide,
penicillin and insulin. She went to Oxford
University and graduated in 1931 and later
made it her main research place as one of the
faculty members. Unlike many other women
she was widely honored for her work, and she
died on July 29, 1994.
Barbara McClintock
1902-1992
• She was an American geneticist who
won a noble prize for
physiology/medicine because of her
discovery that certain genes can
change their position on the
chromosomes of cells, which she
called mobile genetic elements. She
studied the way corn inherits its
traits and found how different
chromosomes can exchange and
break parts while the eggs or sperm
are forming. This process allows
each egg and sperm to contain
different gene combinations.
Because of her research scientists
have found that about one half of
the human genome is made up of
transposons. Barbara died on
September 2,1992.
Chien-Shiung Wu
1912-1997

Chien-Shiung Wu was a Chinese-

American particle and experimental
physicist who made significant
contributions in the fields of nuclear and
particle physics. Wu worked on the
Manhattan Project, where she helped
develop the process for separating
uranium into uranium-235 and uranium-
238 isotopes by gaseous diffusion.-
Wikipedia
 Lise Meitner
1878-1968
Lise Meitner was an Austrian-Swedish
physicist who was one of those
responsible for the discovery of the
element protactinium and nuclear fission.
While working on radioactivity at the
Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Chemistry in
Berlin, she discovered the radioactive
isotope protactinium-231 in 1917-
Wikipedia
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• For the descriptions I mainly used wordbook online but for a few things I used the Smithsonian page. I also used Wikipedia
for the last two since there was no information on either of them on the media center sources.
• And the rest of the pictures were from the PowerPoint pictures.