12 AMAZING

WOMEN WHO
TOTALLY
ROCKED IT IN
SCIENCE
MARIE CURIE
Marie Curie was a Polish
physicist, chemist and
pioneer in the study of
radioactivity. With her
husband Pierre Curie, she
discovered polonium and
radium and became the first
woman to win the Nobel Prize
in Physics in 1903. She won
her second in chemistry in
1911, making her the first
scientist to win the Nobel
PHYSICIST
Prize twice
RACHEL CARSON
Rachel Carson, an
American marine
biologist and
conservationist, wrote
“Silent Spring” about
the dangers of
pesticides and helped
launched the global
environmental
movement. MARINE BIOLOGIST
ROSALIND FRANKLIN
Rosalind Franklin was
a British
biophysicist and X-
ray crystallographer
who helped discover
the shape of DNA.
Francis Crick and
James Watson used her
work to create their
DNA model in 1953. CHEMIST
MAXINE SINGER
Maxine Singer is an
American molecular
biologist and science
administrator who helped
unlock the secrets of
the genetic code and
spur discussions on the
ethics of DNA research
and genetic engineering.
MOCULAR BIOLOGIST
LISE MEITNER
Lise Meitner. called the
“ Mother of the Atomic
Bomb” was an Austrian, and
later Swedish, physicist
who, with her colleague
Otto Hahn, discovered
nuclear fission. He won
Nobel Prize for it. She
didn’t. Element 109
meitnerium, is named after
her. PHYSICIST
BARBARA MCCLINTOCK
Barbara McClintok was an
American pioneer in
genetic research and one
of the world’s most
distinguished
cytogeneticists. She won
the Nobel Prize in
Physiology or Medicine
in 1983 for her work on
genetic transportation. CYTOGENETICIST
RITA LEVI-MONTALCINI

Rita Levi- Montalcini

was an Italian
neurologist who, along
with colleague Stanley
Cohen, received the
1986 Nobel Prize in
Physiology or Medicine
for their discovery of
nerve growth factor. NEUROLOGIST
JANE GOODALL
Jane Goodall, DBE is a
British primatologist,
ethnologist,
anthropologist, and UN
Messenger of Peace whose
studies of chimpanzee
behaviour and social life
in Tanzania have
transformed the way we look
at primate behaviour.
PRIMATOLOGIST
MARIA MITCHELL
Maria Mitchell was an
American astronomer who,
in 1847, by using a
telescope, she discovered
a comet which as a result
became known as “Miss
Mitchell’s Comet”. She
was the first woman to
become a member of the
American Academy of Arts
and Sciences. ASTRONOMER
JOCELYN BELL BURNELL
Jocelyn Bell Burnell is
a Northern Irish
astrophysicist who
discovered the first
radio pulsars while a
Phd student at Cambridge
University. Despite
observing the first four
pulsars found, she was
not part of the team
that won the Nobel Prize ASTRONOMER
for the discovery.
SHIRLEY ANN JACKSON
Shirley Ann Jackson is an
American theoretical
physicist, and the 8th
president of Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute. Her
work for Bell Laboratories
helped make Caller ID and
Call Waiting possible. She
was also the first
African- American woman to
earn her Phd from the
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. PHYSICIST
MAE JEMISON
Mae Jemison is an American
physician and the first
African-American woman to
travel to space aboard the
Space Shuttle in Endeavour
in September 1992. After
leaving NASA, her work has
focused on the interaction
of social sciences and
technology.
ASTRONAUT
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