A food scientist with a positive worldwide public health impact, Dr. Virginia Holsinger‘s work on food security issues and dairy product research impacted many lives throughout her 41 year career at the United States Department of Agriculture.
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The first woman to be selected by the Association for Advancement of Invention and Innovations as the National Inventor of the year, Barbara Askins was a chemist at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.
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Today meet the woman who invented the thread that is used to make Kevlar, Stephanie Kwolek.
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Dr. Betty Harris has been a teacher and researcher since earning her BS in chemistry at the age of 19.
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Part of the Amazing Race winning team, the Sweet Scientists, Dr. Maya Warren was honored to represent women in science and to inspire young people to get into the field as well.
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Organic medicinal chemist Jeanette Brown is also a historian, author, and advocate for increasing diversity in science.
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Mary L. Good was an inorganic chemist who led the American Chemical Society and chaired the board of the National Science Foundation.
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Padmasree Warrior has been hailed by Fortune magazine as “the New Queen of the Electric Car Biz”
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Dr. Giuliana Tesoro wore many hats during her career including organic chemist, inventor, polymer chemist and professor.
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On May 18th, 1991, Helen Sharman became the first Briton in space when she traveled to the MIR space station.
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