Dr. Cynthia Rosenzweig has used her expertise in climatology to help study the impact of climate change on agriculture and cities.
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Dr. Yvonne Pendleton has spent her career helping us to understand our place in the universe.
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Grace Wiley believed that with the right methods even the deadliest snakes could be tamed and by speaking to them and handling them with her bare hands she claimed to have tamed over 300 venomous snakes during her career.
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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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Physicist Pearl I. Young was the first woman hired for a technical position at the NACA.
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On June 18th, 1983 Sally Ride became the first American woman in space when she launched on the Space Shuttle Challenger.
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Space physicist Dr. Shannon Walker has a second distinction that sets her apart even from the small group of people that have traveled to space, in addition to being an astronaut she is also an aquanaut.
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Dorothy “Dottie” Lee made her way in a male dominated field to build a celebrated career at NASA.
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While working on her doctorate, Dr. Gilda Barabino wanted a career that allowed her to use her education and knowledge to help people but didn’t want to go the clinical medicine route.
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World Ocean Day is observed on June 8th, so today we would like to introduce you to the woman who created the first physiographic maps of the sea floor and co-discovered of the backbone of the Earth.
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