Women in Science : Internet Research

by E.S. Belasic

Assignment : 

Write a 1-2  page report on a female scientist of your choice. You may only visit sites that are linked to this page.

You must have :

• Title Page : Name and Picture of your scientist.
• Name, Period, Date Due
• Typed & Double Spaced
• Birthday, Death, Country
• What she is known for
• Why you chose this scientist
• 3 pieces of information (facts)
• Your sources attached : ie web pages, articles, etc.

Scientists :

1. Lady Augusta Ada Byron : first computer program
2. Grace Murray Hopper : worked on first commercial computer
3. Rachel Carson : wrote about dangers of pesticides
4. Rosalind Franklin : structure of DNA
5. Jill Cornell Tarter: search for extra terrestrials
6. Shannon Lucid: lived on MIR 6 months
7. Donna Shirley: Mars pathfinder
8. Marie Curie: radioactivity
9. Maria Gaetana Agnesi: mathematician
10. Barbara McClintock: genetics
11. Sophia Germain: theory of elasticity
12. Lynn Margulis: microorganisms
13. Flossie Wong-Staal: co-discoverer of HIV virus
14. Gertrude B. Elion: cancer fighting drugs
15. Maria Mitchell: first U.S. Woman astronomer
16. Sally Ride: first U.S. Woman in space