The aim of this book is to make people realize about the fact that there are lots of female scientists who we don't know anything about. 

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The aim of this book is to make people realize about the fact that there are lots of female scientists who we don't know anything about. And maybe we don't know about their work because we don't study them at school, but that could change, couldn't it?

01. LISE MEITNER (Pages 4 and 5) 02. ROSALIND FRANKLIN (Pages 6 and 7) 03. SAN LAN WU (Pages 8 and 9) 04. VERA RUBIN (Pages 10 and 11) 05. LYNN MARGULIS (Pages 12 and 13) 06.PLAY "QUIZIZZ" TO TEST YOURSELF

Women in science who changed the world

Erna Schneider (1926- still alive) from USA.She invented an automated telephone switching system.

Sophie Germain ( 1776-1831) French Mathematician. She made important contributions to the theory of numbers and the theory of elasticity. One of the most important was the study of what are called Germain primes

Madame Curie was&#160;the first woman to win two Nobel Prizes.She discovered Radium and Polonium in&#160; 1903 and 1911.She was French.

Caroline Herschel ( 1750-1848) German Scientist She was considered the first professional astronomer.

Margarita Salas (1938-2019)She introduced molecular genetics research in Spain, and her great discovery was Phi29 DNA polymerase, an enzyme with the ability to produce precise genetic copies from a single drop of blood.

Mary Somerville (1780-1872) Scottish mathematician and scientist, she was one of the women of her time who most passionately devoted herself to the study of mathematics and knowledge of scientific advances.

Berta Karlik (1904-1990) was an Austrian physics. She worked at University of Vienna, where she was the first female professor.&#160;&#160;

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She was born in 1940 her exact date is unknown, she was born in Hong Kong. In 1960, he received a scholarship and began his studies at Vassar University in the United States, in Poughkeepsie, New York. ... In the same year, she began studying physics at Harvard University, being the only woman of the year at that time.

She discovered the Enchanted Quark with her team

1 .Outstanding Junior Investigator Award of U.S. Department of Energy, 1980 2. Romnes Faculty Award, University of Wisconsin, Madison 1981 3. Hilldale Professorship, University of Wisconsin, Madison 1991 4. Fellow, American Physical Society 1992 5. High Energy and Particle Physics Prize of the European Physical Society 1995, with Paul S&#246;ding, Bj&#246;rn Wiik, and G&#252;nter Wolf, for the discovery of the gluon. 6. Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1996 7. Vilas Professorship, University of Wisconsin, Madison 1998

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She was born in 1938 in the city of Chicago. At the age of 16 she was accepted into the advanced students program of the University of Chicago where she graduated in Biology at the age of 20. In 1958 she continued her training at the University of Wisconsin as a master's student and assistant professor

Wrote a theoretical article entitled "On the origin of mitosis cells" the article was "rejected by some fifteen scientific journals", It was finally accepted by the Journal of Theoretical Biology and is considered today a milestone in modern endosymbiotic theory 

Darwin-Wallace Medal Natural Sciences, United States and Canada Science Medal in Biological Sciences William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement

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She was an American astronomer, pioneer in galaxy rotation rates. She was born on July 23, 1928 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and died at the age of 88 the 25th December 2016 in New Jersey

She studied the galactic rotation curves a.k.a. galaxy rotation problem, the evidence of the existence of dark matter

She has won the Bruce Medal, the Dickson Prize in Science, the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society and the National Medal of Science

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In 1938, with Lise on the run (she was Jewish), the two chemists published the end result of so many years of work: nuclear fission was revealed to the world. Meitner published shortly thereafter, from exile, the full explanatory model, but the Nobel Prize was awarded to Hahn alone, the completely forgetting about Lise.

Source: -<a href="https://www.famousscientists.org/lise-meitner/">Lise Meitner (Famousscientists.org</a>) -<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lise_Meitner">Lise Meitner (Wikipedia</a>) -<a href="https://mujeresconciencia.com/2015/03/04/lise-meitner-la-cientifica-que-descubrio-la-fision-nuclear/">Lise Meitner</a> (Mujeres con ciencia)

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DISCOVERING THE STRUCTURE OF NDA In 1962, he won a Nobel Prize for discovering the structure of NDA

She was born in London, on 25th July, 1920. From a very young age they already noticed her great ability in science.&#160;She decided to dedicate her life completely to science, but her father disagreed. Luckily a relative paid her costs.

B FACE OF THE DNA AND THE FAMOUS PHOTO 51 He managed to photograph the B face of the hydrated DNA The famous "Photography 51." In it, the double propeller structure of DNA was clearly appreciated

TOBACCO MOSAIC VIRUS He hypothesised that the tobacco mosaic virus was a tube of proteins that contained within it a strand of RNA&#160;&#160;

In the last years of Rosalind Franklin's life, she wasn't nominated for the Nobel Prize: Louisa Gross Horwitz, in biology and biochemistry but after her death, she won the nobel prize.

After her death, many recognized her work through appointments, plaques in important places, portraits ...

Women in Science - Quiz

17 Famous Female Scientists Who Helped Change the World

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