Women Of Science
Caroline Herschel (1750 - 1848) worked closely together with her brother Sir William Herschel throughout their careers as astronomers. Caroline discovered several comets, one of which, the 35P/Herschel-Rigollet, is named after her. She was the first woman scientist to be recognized by the United Kingdom.
Mary Dixon Kies (1752 – 1837) was an early 19th-century American who received the first patent granted to a woman by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, on May 5, 1809. Kies had invented a new technique for weaving straw with silk or thread, and First Lady Dolley Madison praised her for boosting the nation's hat industry. Unfortunately, the patent file was destroyed in the great Patent Office fire in 1836.
Maria Mitchell (1818 - 1889) was the very first American female to become a professional astronomer. She discovered a comet in 1847 that was aptly named “Miss Mitchell’s Comet.”
Rear Admiral Dr. Grace Murray Hopper (1906 – 1992) was a remarkable woman who grandly rose to the challenges of programming the first computers. During her lifetime as a leader in the field of software development concepts, she contributed to the transition from primitive programming techniques to the use of sophisticated compilers. She believed that "we've always done it that way" was not necessarily a good reason to continue to do so.
Katherine Johnson (Born 26Aug1918 - Death 24Feb2020)
also known as Katherine Goble, was an American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights.
Judith Love Cohen (Black) B:16Aug1933 - D:25July2016
Judith Love Cohen (Black) B:16Aug1933 - D:25July2016
The Engineer that solved the problem with the Abort-Guidance System that played a key role in bringing Apollo 13 astronaut. This was done the day she was giving birth to Jack Black.
She is also the mother of Neil Siegel.
https://viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2016/07/in-memory-of-judith-love-cohen-mother-wife-friend-author-engineer/
Mae C. Jemison is the first African-American female astronaut. In 1992, she became the first black woman in space when as a crew member on the spaceship Endeavour. Before entering the space program, she was a medical doctor who served with the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone and Liberia.
Jennifer Anne Doudna (Born:1964) discovered of CRISPR-Cas9, made in 2012, provided the foundation for gene editing, enabling researchers to make specific changes to DNA sequences in a way that was far more efficient and technically simpler than earlier methods.
Tiera (Guinn) Fletcher (Born:1996) at the age of 21 hadn’t yet graduated from college, yet she is already doing literal rocket science. The MIT senior is helping build a rocket for NASA that could be one of the biggest and most powerful ever made, according to WBRC News. She’s an aerospace major with a 5.0 GPA who also works as a Rocket Structural Design and Analysis Engineer for the Space Launch System that aerospace company Boeing is building for NASA.
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