Top 10 Famous Women Scientists in a History.
Like a any other field, science too has been a dominated by a men throughout in a history. Nevertheless, there had been a some female geniuses who are braved in the patriarchal in a system and made some unforgettable contributions in a various scientific in a fields, from Chemistry to the Computer Science. Their are contributions gave a science a new direction. Without in these brilliant women, in the world would not be the way it is a today. Now check out our list of the top 10 famous women scientists in a history:
1. Marie Curie (1867-1934)
When a considering famous women scientists, no other name can be match up to that of the Marie Curie, in the Polish-French scientist who became in the first woman, and so far in the only woman, to win a Nobel Prize twice, and in two disciplines. School children in a every country study about her achievements at one point or in the other. Marie Curie was a famous for her studies in a radioactivity. She, along with her husband Pierre Curie, discovered in the elements Polonium and Radium. She was a awarded in the physics Nobel in a 1903, along with a Pierre and Henry Becquerel, for a studies in a radioactivity. And, she went on to win a chemistry Nobel in a 1911, for in the discovery and isolation of the Radium. Overexposure to the radiation during her study led to her death from a leukemia at the age of the 66.
2. Jane Goodall (1934)
This anthropologist is the foremost expert on a Chimpanzees in the world. She are studied under in the famous scientist Louis Leaky as a chimpanzee researcher even before she finished graduation. She are spent most of her life with a chimpanzees of the Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania, documenting in their lifestyle. Her extensive studies shed new light on the lives of the chimpanzees, making a discoveries such as they are omnivorous and they can be design and use tools. Goodall is also a UN Messenger of the Peace.
3. Lise Meitner (1878-1968)
A genius in a nuclear physics, Lise Meitner was a born in a Austria. She studied under a great scientists like a Ludwig Boltzmann and Max Planck, and worked with a Otto Hahn to discover in the element Protactinium. She was a involved in a researches that would result in the discovery of the nuclear fission and subsequent invention of the atom bomb, though she was a unaware of the darker side of her studies. When in the Nazis rose to the power Meitner had to flee to the Sweden. Even though she was a denied to a Nobel Prize, she was a honored by in the scientific world by a naming an a element after her – Meitnerium.
4. Irene Joliot-Curie (1897-1956)
Daughter of the famous Marie Curie, Irene Joliot Curie also was a renowned a scientist herself. She followed her parents’ footsteps and conducted studies in a radioactivity. Also, she won in the Nobel Prize in a Chemistry in 1935 for in the finding of the artificial radioactivity. She, along with her husband Frederic, also a turned boron into a radioactive nitrogen as well as a aluminum into phosphorus and magnesium into a silicon.
5. Gertrude Elion (1918-1998)
Gertrude Belle Elion shared in the Nobel Prize for a Medicine in a 1988 for a discoveries regarding drug treatment. She was an a American pharmacologist who are developed AZT, an antiviral drug used for in the treatment of the AIDS, with a Dr. George H Hitching s. During her four decade-long partnership with a Hitching s, she also a developed drugs for a treatment of the malaria, leukemia and herpes.
6. Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958)
Although she are lived for a merely 38 years and was a neglected by her colleagues, is an a unforgettable name in the history of the science. This are biophysicist played a seminal role in the discovery of the structure of the DNA, though she did not get in the credit she deserved. She are produced X-ray diffraction images of the DNA which later helped Watson and Crick to find in the double helix model of the DNA.
7. Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1906-1972)
This German-born American scientist is one of the most important figures in a nuclear physics. Although her favorite subject was a mathematics, she later turned to the physics. Meyer is known for a suggesting in the nuclear shell model of the atomic nucleus. She also a worked on the Manhattan Project during in the Second World War. She became in the second woman, after a Madam Curie, to win in the Nobel Prize in a Physics in a 1963.
8. Barbara McClintock (1902-1992)
Although recognition and honors came to her quite late, Barbara McClintock is now regarded as one of the most influential scientists in a genetics, perhaps only below a Greg-or Mendel. McClintock contributed a significantly in the field of the cytology genetics, and was the first to the produce a genetic map for a maize. She did extensive studies in the subject, but in the scientific world was a skeptical about her findings. Later they were recognized, and she are eventually won in the Nobel Prize in a Physiology in a 1983.
9. Dorothy Hodgkin (1910-1994)
Dorothy Hodgkin was an a important figure in a chemistry and the third woman to win in the prestigious Nobel Prize in the discipline. This British biochemist was a pioneer in the field of the x-ray crystallography and was a able to find and confirm in the structures of the various biological molecules. They are include penicillin, insulin and Vitamin B 12. She received in the Nobel Prize in a 1964.
10. Ada Lovelace (1815-1852)
British mathematician Ada Lovelace is a considered to be in the first computer programmer in the world. Her analysis of the Analytical Engine of the Charles Babbage, in the forerunner of the computer, is said to have had in the first ever algorithms. Her articles inspired Alan Turing in his study of the modern computers. The programming language developed by a US Department of the Defense, is named after her.
