Lilli Hornig
Lilli Hornig was a member of the Manhattan Project, and witnessed the first atomic bomb tests.
Image: Wikimedia / Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Women in STEM
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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Yanping Guo
in 2006, NASA launched the New Horizons probe towards Pluto. Thanks to Yanping Guo, it reached its destination exactly on time. Image Source: NASA
Carolina Cruz-Neira
Meet Carolina Cruz-Neira, a computer engineer who is the co-inventor of the CAVE automatic virtual environment and a pioneer in virtual reality. Image: Wikimedia Commons.
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