The first female ranger-naturalist at the Grand Canyon, Pauline Mead Patraw, fell in love with the Canyon on a school trip when she was studying botany.
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Chemist Ida Tacke Noddack was the first woman in Germany to hold a professional position as a chemist, and helped discover the element rhenium.
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The first female president of the International Astronomical Union, Catherine Cesarsky, earned this position with a distinguished career in several areas of modern physics.
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When the first women-only team led the Mars Exploration Rovers for a day, Dr. Barbara Cohen was the leader of that team.
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The history of the ENIAC is filled with the contributions of the earliest women programmers, including Gloria Gordon Bolotsky.
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When the ENIAC was created, someone had to write the world’s first computer’s operating manual. Adele Goldstine was up to the task.
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Ruth Teitelbaum not only was one of the first computer programmers, but also one of the first programming teachers, passing on her knowledge to another generation.
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Frances Spence had already started a teaching career when she started to work for the Army as a “computer,” and then she made history as an ENIAC programmer.
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Marlyn Wescoff Meltzer was one of the women who helped invent computer programming through their work on the ENIAC.
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Betty Holberton studied journalism, but during WWII she became one of the first computer programmers, working on the ENIAC.
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