Women in Science
The information & pics about the following five scientists is from https://share.america.gov/5-brilliant-women-you-should-know/
Astronaut Ellen Ochoa
Ellen Ochoa became the first Hispanic woman to go to space when she boosted to orbit with the space shuttle Discovery in 1993. She is a co-inventor on three patents for optical systems and is currently the director of the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Ochoa applied to be an astronaut three times before NASA accepted her in 1990. In between applications, she got her pilot’s license and continued her research in optics.
Rocket scientist Annie Easley
Annie Easley (1933–2011) was a computer scientist, mathematician and rocket scientist. At NASA, she worked on a high-energy rocket technology that uses liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen to boost rockets into space. Before the civil rights laws of the 1960s, Easley helped train African Americans to take the voting test in her home state of Alabama.
Inventor Hedy Lamarr
Hedy Lamarr (1914–2000) was one of the most popular actresses of the 1940s, but also an inventor. During World War II, she helped develop a way for radio signals to jump frequencies so enemies couldn’t jam the signals. The system was never used then, but the concept forms the basis of how today’s mobile phones work.
“Google Doodle” (click)
Physicist Chien-Shiung Wu
Chien-Shiung Wu (1912–1997) was an experimental physicist who earned many nicknames for her expertise, including the “Queen of Nuclear Research” and the “First Lady of Physics.” She helped two colleagues win the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1957, based on the “Wu experiment.” Before that experiment, there wasn’t a clear way to describe left and right without basically pointing at some defined object and saying “that’s the left side, that’s the right side.” Her work showed that a hypothetical physics law at the time was wrong.
Astronaut Mae Jemison
Mae Jemison is afraid of heights, but that didn’t stop her from going into space. She went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992 and became the first African-American woman in space. She is also a trained medical doctor. Star Trek fans may know her as Lieutenant Palmer, the character she portrayed in 1993 in Star Trek: The Next Generation. She frequently speaks to students and encourages women and minorities to enter math and science.
Biotechnologist Dr. Hayat Sindi
Hayat Sindi is a leading biotechnologist and a champion of science and technology in the Middle East. Her desire to closely link science & social impact helped her co-found a non-profit organization called Diagnostics For All which creates innovative, inexpensive, point-of-care diagnostic devices for people in impoverished regions. These devices require no power, water or trained doctors and have the ability to provide potentially life-saving medical results in minutes. She has invented a machine combining the effects of light and ultra-sound for use in biotechnology. She continues to raise the awareness of science amongst women, particularly in Saudi Arabia and the Muslim World. https://www.weforum.org/people/hayat-sindi
Astronaut Jeannete Epps
Dr. Epps has a PhD in aerospace engineering and graduated from Nasa's astronaut training in 2011. In the year 2021 she will make history as the first black person to LIVE on the ISS.
Ms. Washington is a marine biologist and the first Black American female to host a science TV show called Xploration Science Knows Best. At 21 she began her own non for profit business called the Big Blue You which educates youth about marine conservation.