Women in Science

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WOMENS IN SCIENCE


Index 3…………….....introduction 4-33-33……….women in science 34……….…….conclusion 35…….……….bibliographywomens in science


INTRODUCTION The project is about women in science through history. We did this project because women didn't excel in science. First we searched for information about women in science. Second we organized the information in a document. Them we wrote the introduction and the conclusion. After that we wrote out the women in the presentation. Finally we wrote out the information in PDF format.


Agnodice (IV b.C.) She was born in IV b.c. She was Greek, she was from Greece. She was a doctor. Short story: She had to dress up as a man to be a docto.


Isabel Barreto ( 1567a.d - 1612a.d ) She was Galician, she was from galicia. She was an explorer and naval officer. Short story: First Admiral of a fleet in the history of World navigation. Quotes: “I had to hang the sailors who discussed my orders�


Maria Sibylla Merian (1647a.d-1717a.d) She was born in 1647. She died in 1717. She was German, she was from Germany. She is an entomologist. Short story: She was given a gift that had two worms, that's what wake up her curiosity. Quotes: “In my youth,I spent my time investigating insects.�


Caroline Lucretia Herschel (1750a.d-1848a.d) She was born in 1750. She died in 1848. She was German, she was from Germany. She was an astronomer. Short Story: Her

brother

William

taught

her

astronomy

mathematics. Quotes: “We do not judge great art, he judges us.�

and


Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya(1850a.d-1891a.d) She was russian, she was from Russia. She was a Mathematician. Short story: Sofia continued to study with algebra books. She borrowed an algebra book which she read at night when the rest of the family slept. Quotes: “Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.�


Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie(1867a.d-1934a.d) She was french, she was from france. She was french, she was from france. She was an radiobiologyst. Short story: Maria and her sister Helena went to clandestine classes. Quotes: "That was a mixture of stables and potato storage, and if I hadn't seen the work table with its chemistry material, I would have thought it was a joke."


Henrietta Leavitt (1869a.d-1921a.d) She was born in 1868. She died in 1921. She was American, she was from USA. She was an astronomer. Short story: She worked hard and had a low salary. Quotes: “A straight line can readily be drawn among each of the two series of points corresponding to the maxima and minima, thus showing that there is a simple relation between the brightness

of

the

variables

and

their

periods.�


María Tecla Artemisia Montessori(1870a.d-1752a.b) She was italian she was from Italy. She was a Doctor. Short story: In her family the right to a certain education of the woman was recognized. Quotes: “Education cannot be effective unless is helps a shoot child open up himself to life“.


Mileva Maric (1875a.d-1948a.d) She was born in 1875. She died in 1948. She was Serbian, she was from Serbia. She was a physicist. Short story: The Prussian Academy of Sciences dressed up to receive a scientist who was about to change the principles of physics. Quotes: “How cold you be so careless with my heart?�


Margaret Sanger (1879a.d-1966a.d) She was born in 1879. She died in 1966. She was American, she was from USA. She was a doctor. Short story: She was in the armed forces for the American Civil War. Quotes: “No woman can call herself free who do en not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.�


Emmy Noether (1882a.d-1935a.d) She was born in 1882. She died in 1935. She was German, she was from Germany. She was a mathematician. Short story: When she was little, she answered well and quickly to a riddle at a children's party, seeing that she was very intelligent. Quotes: “My [algebraic] methods are really methods of working and thinking; this is why they have crept in everywhere aninimously.�


Beulah Louise Henry (1887a.d-1973a.d) She was born in 1887. She died in 1973. She was American, she was from USA. She was an inventor. Short story: She never got married. Quotes: “If necessity is the mother of inventon, then resourcefulness is the fhader.�


Inge Lehmann (1888a.d-1993a.d) She was born in 1888. She died in 1993. She was Danish, she was from Denmark. She was a Seismologist. Short story: She liked seismology because Niels Erik Norlund told her to create seismological observatories. Quotes: “You should know how many incompetent men I had to compete with in vain.�


Gerty Cori (1896a.d-1957a.d) She was born in 1896. She died in 1957. She was Czech, she was from Czech republic. She was a biochemist. Short story:

She had difficulties to get research work and those she got were always poorly paid. Quotes: “I belive that in art an science are the glories of the human mind. I see no conflict between them.�


Barbara McCintock(1902a.d-1992a.d) She was american . She was from in America. She was a scientist. Short story: McClintock developed techniques to visualize and characterize corn chromosomes. Quotes: “Over the years I have enjoyed without having to defend my theories�


Grace Hopper(1906a.d-1992a.d) She was American she was from New York. She was a Militaryst. Short story: She, is seven years old, disarmed all the clocks in her house to see if she could understand how they worked. Quotes: "When I started computing I didn't know anything about computers, of course, I did the first one"


Rachel Louise Carson(1907a.d-1964a.d) She was american, she was from America. She was a Biologist. Short story: She started writing stories, 8 years, related to animals. Quotes: "The more I learned about pesticide use, the more I was horrified"


Rita Levi Montalcini(1909a.d-2012a.d) She was italian she was from Italy. She was a Neurologist. Short story: She worked at a bakery to pay for her studies. Quotes: “The main thing is to stay active; Try to help others and keep the world curious�


Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin(1910b.d-1994b.d) She was british, she was from Britain. She was a Chemist. Short story: Dorothy won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964 and, as of 2016, she remains the only Nobel Prize winning scientific woman . Quotes: “As a scientist I feel absolutely responsible.�


María Teresa Toral(1911a.d-1994a.d) She was spanish, she was from Spain. She was a Chemist. Short story: In the creation of "penicillin" he played a prominent role as a Republican scientist. Quotes: “She Almost watched the shootings because the sales penalty is very close to the place the where people were shot”.


Chien-Shiung Wu(1912a.d-1997a.d) She was American ; she was from USA. She was a anthropologist. Short story: In Michigan, women were unable to use the main campus entrance and she decided

to

study at Berkeley. Quotes: “There is only one thing worse than coming home from the laboratory to a sink full of dirty dishes, and that is not going to the lab at all!�


Ă ngeles AlvariĂąo(1916a.d-2005a.d) She was Galician, she was from Galicia. She

was

a

biologist,

oceanographer

and

teacher. Short Story: She was the first female scientist on a British oceanographic ship. Quotes: "I found plankton samples to study, and I started with enthusiasm those studies "


Gertrude Elion(1918a.d-1999a.d) She was American she was from USA. She was a Biochemist and a Pharmacist Short Story: She

was greatly influenced by

her

grandfather's illness, whom she was very close to, and who died of cancer; it motivated her to study more in that disease and how to cure it. Quotes: “She said she was a lucky one to collect doing what she liked.�


Rosalind Franklind(1920a.d-1958a.d) She was english, she was from England. She was a Chemist. Short story: The research and data obtained by it were key to the determination of the double helix of DNA. Quotes: His mother remembered that, in opposing to believe in the existence of God, Rosalind said: "Well, anyway, how do you know that he is not her?"


Tarsy Carballas( 1934a.d-...) She was Galician, she was X from Galicia. She was G an agrobiologist . Short story: She made different translations in Castilian of the books of Duchaufour, the most used by the soil scientists. G She has over two hundred publications, and about twelve books. Quotes: "Society continues to see researchers as rare bugs"


Aida FernĂĄndez RĂ­os(1947b.d-2015b.d) She was Galician, she was from Galicia. She was a Scientist. Short story: She was the third woman to enter the Royal Galician Academy of Sciences. Quotes: "The increase of CO2 can alter the nervous system of the fish and not be able to flee from predators".


Alicia EstĂŠvez Toranzo(1955a.d-...) She is Galician, she is from Galicia. She is a Biologist. Short story: Alicia did not know whether to study biology or fine arts. Quotes: "It makes you believe that the woman is more qualified for teaching and that the engineering is for men "


Begoña Vila(1963a.d-...) She is Galician, she is from Galicia. She is an Astrophysicist. Short story: She built the world's largest telescope. Quotes: “I believe that there is life outside“.


Susana Martínez Conde(1963a.d-...) She is Galician, she is from Galicia. She is a scientist Short story: Most of what we see is an illusion, they are , tricks of the brain to cope with its limitations. Quotes: “we would need a brain of the size of a building to perceive the reality faithfully”


Sonia Villapol Salgado(1977a.d-...) She is Galician, she is from Galicia. She was a neuroscientific.

Short story : She

defended

her

doctoral

thesis

in

neuroscience about the mechanisms of cell death occurring in the brain. Quotes: “Trek to have a clear future�


Conclusion We didn't know that there were so many scientist women in the world.Also we learned that women weren’t recognised for their merits because himself him take everything the mens.


BIBLIOGRAPHY Cívico, Irene and Parra, Sergio, “Las chicas son de ciencias 25 científicas que cambiaron el mundo”, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, Barcelona 2018. Louis

Agassiz,

Famous

Scientist

https://www.famousscientists.org/10-famous-women-scientists/

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Women

Scientists

in

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Vila,

the

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galician


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