United States after World War II Women in science

kay mcnulty, betty jennings, betty snyder, marlyn wescoff, fran bilas , ruth lichterman 6 of original programmers eniac, first general purpose electronic computer.
linda b. buck neurobiologist awarded 2004 nobel prize in physiology or medicine along richard axel work on olfactory receptors.
biologist , activist rachel carson published silent spring, work on dangers of pesticides, in 1962.
eugenie clark, popularly known shark lady, american ichthyologist known research on poisonous fish of tropical seas , on behavior of sharks.
ann druyan american writer, lecturer , producer specializing in cosmology , popular science. druyan has credited knowledge of science 20 years spent studying late husband, carl sagan, rather formal academic training. responsible selection of music on voyager golden record voyager 1 , voyager 2 exploratory missions. druyan sponsored cosmos 1 spacecraft.
gertrude b. elion american biochemist , pharmacologist, awarded nobel prize in physiology or medicine in 1988 work on differences in biochemistry between normal human cells , pathogens.
sandra moore faber, robert jackson, discovered faber–jackson relation between luminosity , stellar dispersion velocity in elliptical galaxies. headed team discovered great attractor, large concentration of mass pulling number of nearby galaxies in direction.
zoologist dian fossey worked gorillas in africa 1967 until murder in 1985.
astronomer andrea ghez received macarthur genius grant in 2008 work in surmounting limitations of earthbound telescopes.
maria goeppert-mayer second female nobel prize winner in physics, proposing nuclear shell model of atomic nucleus. earlier in career, had worked in unofficial or volunteer positions @ university husband professor. goeppert-mayer 1 of several scientists works commemorated u.s. postage stamp.
sulamith low goldhaber , husband gerson goldhaber formed research team on k meson , other high-energy particles in 1950s.
carol greider , australian born elizabeth blackburn, along jack w. szostak, received 2009 nobel prize in physiology or medicine discovery of how chromosomes protected telomeres , enzyme telomerase.
rear admiral grace murray hopper developed first computer compiler while working eckert mauchly computer corporation, released in 1952.
deborah s. jin s team @ jila, in boulder, colorado in 2003 produced first fermionic condensate, new state of matter.
stephanie kwolek, researcher @ dupont, invented poly-paraphenylene terephthalamide – better known kevlar.
lynn margulis biologist best known work on endosymbiotic theory, accepted how organelles formed.
barbara mcclintock s studies of maize genetics demonstrated genetic transposition in 1940s , 1950s. dedicated life research, , awarded nobel prize in physiology or medicine in 1983. mcclintock 1 of several scientists works commemorated u.s. postage stamp.
nita ahuja renowned surgeon-scientist known work on cimp in cancer, chief of surgical oncology @ johns hopkins hospital. first woman ever chief of prestigious department.
carolyn porco planetary scientist best known work on voyager program , cassini–huygens mission saturn. known popularization of science, in particular space exploration.
physicist helen quinn, roberto peccei, postulated peccei-quinn symmetry. 1 consequence particle known axion, candidate dark matter pervades universe. prof. quinn first woman receive dirac medal , first receive oskar klein medal.
lisa randall theoretical physicist , cosmologist, best known work on randall–sundrum model. first tenured female physics professor @ princeton university.
sally ride astrophysicist , first american woman, , then-youngest american, travel outer space. ride wrote or co-wrote several books on space aimed @ children, goal of encouraging them study science. ride participated in gravity probe b (gp-b) project, provided more evidence predictions of einstein s general theory of relativity correct.
through observations of galaxy rotation curves, astronomer vera rubin discovered galaxy rotation problem, taken 1 of key pieces of evidence existence of dark matter. first female allowed observe @ palomar observatory.
sara seager canadian-american astronomer professor @ massachusetts institute of technology , known work on extrasolar planets.
astronomer jill tarter director of seti.
rosalyn yalow co-winner of 1977 nobel prize in physiology or medicine (together roger guillemin , andrew schally) development of radioimmunoassay (ria) technique.




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