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Marie Curie (o)
"Mother of Modern
Physics"
Nobel Prize Winner 2X
1903 - Physics
1911 - Chemistry
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Patricia Bath
Renowned
Ophthalmologist, Inventor
and Academic
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Elizabeth Blackwell
February 3, 1821-May 31,
1910
First woman to graduate
from medical school
First woman doctor of
medicine in the modern era
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Mary Anning
May 21, 1799- March 9,
1847
English fossil collector,
dealer, and paleontologist
Findings contributed
changes in our
understanding of
prehistoric life and Earth
History.
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Maria Gaetana Agnesi
16 May 1719 - 9 January
1799
She was the first woman to
write a mathematics
handbook and the first
woman appointed as a
Mathematics Professor at
a university.
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Caroline Herschel
March 16, 1750 - January
9, 1848
First woman to discover a
comet. Her work with her
brother, William Herschel,
led to the discovery of the
planet Uranus
( $59 )
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Admiral Grace Hopper
December 9, 1906–
January 1, 1992
Mother of COBOL
Wrote the first compiler
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Barbara McClintock
June 16, 1902-September
2, 1992
Won the 1983 Nobel Prize
in medicine or physiology
for her discovery of
transposable genes
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Maria Mitchell
January 15, 1850 -
February 10, 1891
First professional woman
astronomer in the United
States.
First woman member of
the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences
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Nettie Maria Stevens
July 7, 1861 May 4, 1912
Early American geneticist.
In 1905, she and Edmund
Beecher Wilson were the
first researchers to
independently describe the
chromosomal basis of sex.
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Eva Crane
June 12, 1912-September
6, 2007
Bee researcher and
Renowned author on the
subjects of bees and
beekeeping
Ph.D in Nuclear Physics
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Gertrude Bell Elion
January 23, 1918 - April
21, 1999
American biochemist and
pharmacologist
1988 Nobel Prize Winner
Physiology/Medicie
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Rosalind Franklin
July 25, 1920 - April 16,
1958
Had key role (largely
unacknowledged during
her lifetime) in discovering
the helical structure of
DNA.
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Sophie Germain
April 1, 1776 - June 27,
1831
French mathematician,
physicist, and philosopher
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