Alice Evans
Thanks to the work of Alice Evans, we can drink milk knowing that it’s been pasteurized to remove harmful bacteria.
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Women in STEM
Judith Resnik
Today marks the thirtieth anniversary of the tragic explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger which killed its seven crew members including mission specialist Judith Resnik.
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Lilli Hornig
Lilli Hornig was a member of the Manhattan Project, and witnessed the first atomic bomb tests.
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Esther Lederberg
Meet Esther Lederberg, a microbiologist who made many influential discoveries.
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Annie Jump Cannon
Astronomer Annie Jump Cannon found star classification systems didn’t fit her needs, so she created a new one that we still use today. Image: Wikimedia.
Elizabeth Blackwell
Meet Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to earn a medical degree.
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Roberta Bondar
Roberta Bondar was both the first neurologist and the first Canadian woman in space.
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Tu Youyou
In the 1970’s Tu Youyou used research into traditional Chinese medicine to discover and synthesize a revolutionary malaria treatment.
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Marie-Anne Lavoisier
Restrictions of her time kept Marie-Anne Lavoisier from becoming a chemist herself, but she was integral to her husband’s work and the two changed chemistry forever.
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