WMS 130: Achievements of Women in Science
Based on two texts:
Nobel Prize Women in Science by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
Extraordinary Women Scientists by Darlene R. Stille
Nearly Contemporary Women Scientists:
Barbara McClintock
Geneticist
Nobel in Physiology/Medicine 1983
1902-1992
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Physical Chemist
1910-1994
of penicillin, insulin, and B12 and others
Nobel in Chemistry 1964 (most recent in Chemistry)
Maize genetics
Xray Crystallography
Gertrude Elion
Biochemist
1918-1999
Drug discoveries
made organ transplants possible also work the basis of AZT for AIDs
Nobel in Physiology/Medicine 1988
Maria Goeppert Mayer
Physicist
1906-1972
Nuclear Shell Model
Nobel in Physics 1963 ( most recent Nobel in Phys to a woman)
Rosalind Elsie Franklin
Physical Chemist
DNA and other viruses
Data taken by Watson and Crick
1920-1958
Florence Bascom
1862-1945
Geologist
Xray structure of
Contemporary Women Scientists:
Rosalyn Sussman Yallow
Medical Physics
1921 – Pres Radioimmunoassay
procedure for endocrinology
Nobel in Physiology/Medicine 1977 (1st American born woman)
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Neuroembryologist
for cells
Nobel in Physiology/Medicine 1986
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Discoveries
1909- Pres
Astronomer/Physicist
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Developmental Biologist
of human health problems like birth defects and cancer
Nobel in Physiology/Medicine 1995
Nerve growth factors
1943- Pres
Pulsar
1942- Pres
Genetic origin
Jane Goodall
lifestyles and societies
Ethologist
1934- Pres
Studied chimpanzee
Diane Fossey
Zoologist
1932-1985
Primate studies
Jewell Plummer Cobb
Cell Biologist/Educator
1924-Pres
Judith A. Resnick
Astronaut/Electrical Engineer 1949-1986
Challenger when it exploded
Astronaut on
Mae C. Jemison
1956-Pres.
Astronaut/Physician/Biomedical Engineer