09/03/2015
Para nos lembrar-mos dos nomes que f**aram esquecidos pelo género !
This seems like a great way to round of our posts yesterday - how many of these names do you recognize?
Image by Megan Lee Studio.
• Mary Anning was a British fossil collector and paleontologist.
• Ada Lovelace is considered to be the world’s first computer programmer for her work on Charles Babbage’s analytical engine.
• Marie Curie was the first person honored with two Nobel Prizes in both physics and chemistry. Her achievements included a theory of radioactivity, techniques for isolating radioactive isotopes, and the discovery of two elements, polonium and radium.
• Lise Meitner was part of the team that discovered nuclear fission, for which her colleague Otto Hahn was awarded the Nobel Prize. In 1997, element 109 was named meitnerium in her honor.
• Emmy Noether, was a mathematician known for her groundbreaking contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics. She was described by Albert Einstein as the most important woman in the history of mathematics.
• Cecelia Payne was a British astronomer and astrophysicist. She was the first person to discover that the universe is composed primarily of hydrogen and helium.
• Barbara McClintock produced groundbreaking research in cytogenetics and demonstrated that genes are responsible for turning physical characteristics on and off.
• Grace Hopper was a computer scientist who developed the COBOL computer programming language. She popularized the term “debugging” for fixing computer glitches after being motivated by an actual moth removed from the computer.
• Rachel Carson was a marine biologist, conservationist, and author known for advancing the environmental movement.
• Dorothy Hodgkin was a biochemist who advanced the technique of X-ray crystallography, a method used to determine the three-dimensional structures of biomolecules. She became the third woman to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
• Hedy Lamarr was both a popular Hollywood actress and an inventor. Her most signif**ant contribution to technology was her co-invention of an early technique for frequency-hopping spread spectrum communications which paved the way for today's wireless communications.
• Rosalind Franklin was a biophysicist whose work on X-ray diffraction images of DNA led to her discovery of DNA double helix and her data was used to formulate Crick and Watson’s 1953 hypothesis.
• Esther Lederberg was a microbiologist who devised the first successful implementation of replica plating and helped discover and understand the genetic mechanisms of specialized transduction.
• Jane Goodall is an anthropologist and primatologist known for her extraordinary 55-year study of the interactions of wild chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania.
• Jocelyn Bell Burnell is an astrophysicist who discovered the first radio pulsars.
• Mae Jemison was the first African American woman to travel in space, aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour.
Post via Not an Exact Science Show.