Leader women in STEM
English mathematician Ada Lovelace, the daughter of poet Lord George Gordon Byron, has been called "the first computer programmer" for writing an algorithm for a computing machine in the mid-1800s.
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Valentina Tereshkova, Russian cosmonaut and engineer, is the first and youngest woman to have flown in space and the only one to have done this in a solo mission.
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Grace Brewster Murray Hopper (1906 – 1992) was an American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral.
Marie Curie was the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize. In 1903, she received the Nobel Prize in Physics. Then in 1911, she received a second Nobel Prize, this time in chemistry. She is the only woman to have received 2 Nobel prizes. Her daughter Irène would also receive a Nobel Prize in Chemistry 24 years later.
Alice Augusta Ball was an African American chemist who developed an injectable oil extract that was the most effective treatment for leprosy until the 1940s
Irene Joliot-Curie - French physicist, Nobel laureate in chemistry, together with Frederic Joliot, the eldest daughter of Marie Sklodowska-Curie 'female STEM superhero'
A pioneer in physics, Chien-Shiung Wu was the first person to prove that the principle of parity conservation does not apply during beta decay.
Hedy Lamarr (1913-2000)
Hedy Lamarr might be recalled as a movie star of the 1930s and 1940s, however, few know that she invented a remote-controlled communications system for the U.S military during World War II. Lamarr’s frequency hopping theory now serves as a basis for modern communication technology, such as Bluetooth and Wi-Fi network connections.
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