Women in Science

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WOMEN IN SCIENCE

Alexia, David & Sara


Table of contents: 1.

Introduction

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Women in Science

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Maps

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Conclusion

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Bibliography


1. Introduction This project is about “Women in Science� because women are very important in science. The reasons to do this project are different : -To learn vocabulary -To give importance to women in science


Hypatia (370a.d. - 415a.d.) She was a Greek mathematician. ANECDOTE: She was the first female mathematician that we have reference. QUOTE: Fables should be taught as myths and miracles as poetic fantasies. To tech superstition as truth is the most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be after years relieved of them.


Maria Sibylla Merian (1643 - 1717) She was a German naturalist . ANECDOTE: She is the most important female entomologist. QUOTE: Art and nature shall always be wrestling until they eventually conquer one another so that the victory is the stroke and line.


Wang Zhenyi (1768 - 1797) She was a Chinese astronomer. ANECDOTE: She study alone because she was a woman. QUOTE: It´s made to believe, women are the same as men are you not convinced daughters can also be heroic?


Mary Anning (1799 - 1847) She was a British paleontologist. ANECDOTE:She participated with her vote in the feminist riot.


Ada Lovelace (1815 - 1852) She was a British mathematician. ANECDOTE: People consider that she was the first woman to schedule computers. QUOTE:The more I study the more insatiable do I feel my genius for it to be.


Elizabeth Blackwell (1821 - 1910) She was a American doctor. ANECDOTE: She was the first woman to get the title of medicine doctor. QUOTE: If society will not admit of woman’s free development, then society must be remodeled.


Hertha Ayrton (1861 - 1952) She was a German psychoanalyst ANECDOTE: She received the medal Hughes of the Royal Society.

QUOTE: An error that ascribes to a man what was actually the work of a woman has more lives than a cat.


Nettie Stevens (1861 - 1912) She was a American geneticist. ANECDOTE: She was the first person to discover the chromosomal bases.


Florence Bascom (1862 - 1945 ) She was a American geologist. ANECDOTE: She was the second woman to obtain the doctorate in geologist and the first to received a doctorate in the university Johns Hopkins. QUOTE: The fascination of any search after truth not in the attainment, which at best is found to be very relative, but in the pursuit, where all the power of the mind and character are brought into play and are absorbed by the task.


Marie Curie (1867 - 1934) She was a French physicist and chemist. ANECDOTE: She was the first woman to get two Novel prices and the first woman to occupy a place in the university. QUOTE: I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.


Manuela Barreiro (1877 - 1953) She was a Spanish doctor. ANECDOTE: She was the first woman to graduate in Santiago of Compostela university.


Alice Ball (1892-1916) She was a American doctor. ANECDOTE:She was the first Afro American woman who obtained a master's degree from the University of Hawaii. QUOTE:They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.


Gerty Cori (1896-1957) She was a American doctor. ANECDOTE:The award shared with the physiologist Bernardo Houssay, was received for having discovered the mechanism of glycogen transformation into lactic acid, a process known as the Cori cycle. QUOTE:The more we thank god, the less we ask of him.


Cecilia Payne (1900-1979) She was a English astronomer. ANECDOTE:At that time her thesis was considered the most brilliant doctoral thesis ever written in astronomy. QUOTE:Your reward will be the widening of the horizon as you climb. And if you achieve that reward you will ask no other.


Barbara Mcclintock (1902-1992) She was a American cytogenetics. ANECDOTE:She was the third woman to obtain the Nobel Prize in Medicine, and the first on an individual basis.She discovered the jumping genes. QUOTE:If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge then nobody can turn you off‌ no matter what they say.


Maria Goeppert Mayer (1908-1972) She was a American physics. ANECDOTE:She discovered the Quantum Mechanics.She was the second woman to be awarded by the Nobel Prize in Physics, after Marie Curie. QUOTE:Winning the prize wasn't half as exciting as doing the work itself.


Rachel Carson (1907-1964) She was a American philosopher. ANECDOTE:She published her first story at the age of 11. When she began her secondary studies she registered in English but soon, in 1928, she moved to Biology. QUOTE:The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.


Rita Levi Montalcini (1909-2012) She was a Italian neurology. ANECDOTE:Her work with Stanley Cohen served to discover that cells only begin to reproduce when they are ordered and they are transmitted by the so-called growth factors. QUOTE:Above all, don´t fear difficult moments. The best comes from them.


Dorothy Hodgkin (1910-1994) She was a Egyptian crystallography. ANECDOTE:The development of X-ray crystallography was impelled because biologists began to suspect that the architecture of molecules had a lot to do with their behavior and their functions. QUOTE:I was captured for life by chemistry and by crystals.


Hedy Lamarr (1914-2000) She was a Austrian art and actress. ANECDOTE:The film that led to success in 1932, could not be more controversial. Filmed in Czechoslovakia under the direction of Gustav Machaty, it was the first film to show the face of an actress.

QUOTE:Men are most virile and most attractive between the ages of 35 and 55. Under 35 a man has too much to learn, and I don't have time to teach him.


Gertrude Elion (1918-1999) She was a American biochemistry. ANECDOTE:Gertrude B. Elion, the woman who won a Nobel Prize without having a PhD. QUOTE:Don't be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don´t leT others discourage you or tell you that you can't do it. In my day I was told women didn't go into chemistry. I saw no reason why we couldn't.


Katherine Johnson (1918-1969) She was a American mathematics. ANECDOTE:I felt most proud of the success of the Apollo mission. They were going to the moon and I computed the path to get there. QUOTE:The past is never where you think you left it.


Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958) She was a English biology. ANECDOTE:Rosalind Franklin was a brilliant young physicist-chemistry graduate and Ph.D. at Cambridge, who had just spent three years in France learning a complex specialty: the use of X-ray crystallography to determine the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules. QUOTE:In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall succeed in our aims the improvement of mankind.



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