WOMEN IN SCIENCE

Thursday, 9 March 2023 4:16 PM

→ Maria Silbylla Merian was an entemologist, she drew

plants and animals - She studied butterflies
metamorphosis. MODERN ENTEMOLOGY
PRECURSOR
→ Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman to travel to
outer space in the Vostok 6, she is an space engieer.
→ Maria Montessori was the first Italian doctor, she also
introduced the Montessori educational method
→ Frances Arnold is a chemical engineer, she was
awared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for pioneering the
use of directed evolution to engineer enzymes.
→ Doroty Crowfoot was a chemical woman who was
awared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for proteins
cristalography. She saw by Ray X biomolecules
structures - Penicilin.
→ Rachel Carson was a marine biologist - Enviromental
awareness (Silent spring)
→ Sally Ride was an astronaunt and physicist. She was
the firts American woman to travel to outer space, she
was the youngest American astronaunt in have flown
to space.
→ Alice Ball was a afroamerican chemist who developed
an injectable oil extract that was the most effective for
leprosy until 1940´s
→ Ada Lovalace was the first computer programmer.
She has a lot of mathematical and tecnological skills.
→ Mary Anning was a fossil colector who helped in the
mind changing of prehistoric lives.
→ Francoise Barré-Sinoussi is recognized for her
atributions to retrovirus researches, specially for
diacovering and being the first in talked about HIV-
VIH. Nobel Prize in Medicine
→ Jane Goodall was a pionner in the study of
 mind changing of prehistoric lives.
→ Francoise Barré-Sinoussi is recognized for her
atributions to retrovirus researches, specially for
diacovering and being the first in talked about HIV-
VIH. Nobel Prize in Medicine
→ Jane Goodall was a pionner in the study of
chinpanzes

→ Marie Curie was the first woman in win a Nobel Prize,

she studied the radioactivity, uranium rays. She
introduced new elements to the TP
→ Hedy Lammar was an actriss and engineer, she
discover or developed the WIFI (Secret communication
sistem)
→ Rita Levi-Montalcini discovered the nerve growth
factor, she awaered the Nobel prize in Medicine
because of that. She studied neurosciences.
→ Terri Irwin is a famous veterinary, she makes tv
programs about animals and all that with her spouce.
→ Carolina Herschel was the first woman to discovered
a comet, she worked in the telescopies elaboration.
→ Sybilla Masters was the first american woman in
receive an english patent for her invention, a corn mill
and a process for making hats (She received the
patents by the name of her husband.
→ Gertrude Belle Ellion was a pharmacist and scientific
who developed a lot of drugs, she awaered a Nobel
Prize in Medicine because of the innovates metods of
rational drugs desing that she used. Anti-retroviral
drug, imminosupresive drug…
→ Katherien Johnson was an Afroamerican mathematic
who worked in the NASA and made a lot of
calculations that allowed man to travel to outer space,
she participed in the mision Apolo. She was consider
an human calculator
→ Lise Meitner made researches about uranium,
radioactivity and atomic elements
→ Sandra Bessudo is a Colombian marine biogiologist is
involved in the conversation about marine biodiversity
and the enviroment
→ Diana Trujillo is a Colombian aerospace engineer, she