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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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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Anita Borg
American Anita Borg was a pioneering programmer and women’s advocate who co-founded the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. Image Courtesy of the Anita Borg Institute.
Dian Fossey
In December 1966 Dian Fossey arrived in Africa to begin her long term study of the mountain gorilla. Learn more about her work in today’s episode.
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Katherine Johnson
Meet Katherine Johnson, a mathematician involved in many of America’s greatest achievements during the space race. Image: Wikimedia.