An explorer and treasure hunter at heart, Sue Hendrickson has been a diver, amber miner, paleontologist, and conservationist just to name a few of her career’s explorations. You may have heard of her namesake, a T-Rex named Sue.
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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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The first American women to earn a degree in dentistry had to forge her own path to achieve this goal. Dr. Lucy Hobbs Taylor would in turn fight for the rights of other women to achieve their dreams.
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Founder of the Frontier Nursing Service, a program credited with lowering the infant mortality rate in Leslie County, Kentucky from one of the highest in the nation to below the national average Mary Carson Breckinridge turned her own personal tragedy into a lasting legacy that still serves southeastern Kentucky with four rural health clinics, a hospital, and a home health agency.
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Inspired at an early age to become a chemist, Dr. Lydia Villa-Komaroff’s scientific work in molecular biology has fundamentally changed the treatment of diabetes.
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With research contributions in the areas of multi-spectral research on x-ray and gamma ray sources, space-borne instrumentation, and observational and experimental astrophysics Dr. France A. Córdova has been a leader in both academia and public service in the sciences since being inspired by the moon landings.
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Dr. Edith Widder is an oceanographer, bioluminescence expert, a certified scientific research pilot for Atmospheric Diving Systems, and an inventor.
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In her first year of working at the New York City’s Department of Health diagnostic laboratory, Dr. Anna Wessels Williams would change the world.
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Today meet the woman who invented the thread that is used to make Kevlar, Stephanie Kwolek.
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Becoming one of MIT’s youngest full professors at the age of 35, Jackie Yi-Ru Ying is one of the world’s leading experts on nanotechnology.
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