Space physicist Dr. Shannon Walker has a second distinction that sets her apart even from the small group of people that have traveled to space, in addition to being an astronaut she is also an aquanaut.
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Wang Zhenyi was a Chinese astronomer, mathematician, and poet born in 1768 and despite the social philosophy of the time she was an avid reader and thinker.
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Maria Kirch is considered the first woman to discover a comet, but for many years her husband took the credit.
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Dorothy “Dottie” Lee made her way in a male dominated field to build a celebrated career at NASA.
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While working on her doctorate, Dr. Gilda Barabino wanted a career that allowed her to use her education and knowledge to help people but didn’t want to go the clinical medicine route.
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Dr. Mica Endsley was the first woman to serve as the Chief Scientist of the United States Air Force.
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Male students petitioned to have Elizabeth Garrett removed from their school, but she still went on to become Britain’s first female physician.
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World Ocean Day is observed on June 8th, so today we would like to introduce you to the woman who created the first physiographic maps of the sea floor and co-discovered of the backbone of the Earth.
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One June 7, 1965, Sister Mary Kenneth Keller was one of the first recipients of a doctorate in computer science in the United States.
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Mary Cartwright was one of only five women studying mathematics at Oxford after World War I, and she went on to help found chaos theory.
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