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Female scientists, XX and XXI. centuries

  • Marie Curie

    Marie Curie
    She was the first woman winning a Nobel Prize for Physics. She researcher radioactivity and she discovered polonium and uranium matirials wich weren't until her discovery. Due to this investigation, together with her husband won the Novel Prize in 1903.
    In 1910, she isolate one gramme of radium, for this reason she recieved the Novel Prize for Chemistry.
  • Henrietta Leavitt

    Henrietta Leavitt
    She was an American astranomer who changed the way we view the universe.
    She started measuring and filming the stars in Harvard's observatory and there she realised that the stars' shine and the measure that was between the Earth and them followed a pattern. This discovery helped her to prove the luminosity-period relation. With this, scientifics can know the distance between the Earth and a star.
    In 1925, four years after her death, they wanted to nominate to a Nobel Prize.
  • Lise Meitner

    Lise Meitner
    She was an Australian physcist. Her research were based on reactivity and nuclear physics. She was in the group of the investigation who discover the Protactinium, but the only one who receive the Nobel Prize was Otto Hahn.
    She was a teacher in Kaiser Wilhelm High school and in the University of Berlin since 1926 until 1933.
    In 1966, hshe receive the Enrico Fermi Prize because of all the phisics work she did in USA.
    In her honour, they give the name meitnerium for the 109 chemical element.
  • Ida Tacker

    Ida Tacker
    She was a German physicist and chemist.
    In 1934, she was the first scientific who mentioned the nuclear fission. She also discovered two of the periodic table's elements, renio and masurium. Nowadays, masurium is known as tecnecio and they say that the discoverers of this element were Carlo Perrier and Emilio Segre, because they created it artificially on a laboratory.
    She had been nominetad three times for a Nobel Prize, but she had never won anyone.
  • Iréne Joilt-Curie

    Iréne Joilt-Curie
    She studied physics and chemistry in Paris and some years later she got the doctorate on alpha rays in Poland. In the First World War she worked in the radiology zone of some infirmaries, and then, she helped her mum, Marie Curie, in Paris Radiology Institute. After her mum's death, she won the Chemistry Nobel Prize and she became the president of the Nacional Science Foundation in 1935.
  • Barbara McClintock

    Barbara McClintock
    She was an American geneticist and botanist.
    She worked studying plants' genetic. Working on that she discovered that the genetic information wasn't stable and the genetic mass' place changes could change the behaviour of the genes that were around.
    Since this studies, she won the Medicine Nobel Prize in 1983.
  • Grace Hopper

    Grace Hopper
    She was scientific and mathematician. In 1934 she achieve the Mathematics doctorate at Yale University. She was in the military of the United States and at the same time she was a maths teacher, but in the Second World War she left her job and she joined the Marina. They sent her to the University of Harvard and there he worked flourishing the computer programming, she created the first complicated lenguage for computers.
    In 1986, she left the military been the oldest official.
  • Rita Levi-Montalciniri

    Rita Levi-Montalciniri
    In 1936 she licensed after studying medicine in the University of Turin. She worked in scientific research,
    Zientzia ikerketan aritu zen with Giuseppe Levi the neurobiologist in command. In 1961 she built a Laboratory of Cellular Biology in Rome. During 1961 and 1969 she led Centre de Recerca Neurobiològica.
    In 1986, she was awarded the Nobel Price in Medicine and Physiology for the discovery of the nerve growth factor with Stanley Cohen.
  • Chien-Shiung Wu

    Chien-Shiung Wu
    She studied physics at the Universities of Nanjing and Zhejiang. Finally in Taiwan's the Physics Institute of the National Academy she became researcher. In 1936 she went to the University of California to do more profound studies. There she worked with the teacher, Ernest O. Lawrence in the invention of the cyclotron. For the work made, Ernest won the 1939 Novel Prize in Physics. Why Chien-Shiung Wu not?
  • Rosalind Franklin

    Rosalind Franklin
    She was an English biophysical and crystallographyc. With the difraction of the x-rays she achieved the first images of the ADN and she create a hypothesis of the ADN's structure.
    .James Watson and Francis Crickek appropiated that hypothesy and they advanced it in 1953. They won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology and medicine, because of thework that Franklin had made.
    Do you think that is fair that others won a Nobel Prize due to her work and her no?
  • Dottie Thomas

    Dottie Thomas
    She was a famous hematologis due to the transplant of the bone marrow. She investigated the leukaemia and blood and bone marrow transplants with Edward Donnald.
    In 1990, Edward won the Nobel Pize in Physiology or Medicine with Joseph Edward Murrayrekin batera... Why Dottie not?
  • Esther Miriam Zimmer Lederberg

    Esther Miriam Zimmer Lederberg
    She was a microbiologist from New York, poineer in bacterial genetic.

    In 1950 she found λ birus bacteriophage and she achieved to transfer between bacteria genes with a specialised transduction. Later, she found plasmid F and fertility too.
    In 1959, she created the Plasmid Reference Center of the Univesity of Stanford and she led it for many years. There she mantained, named and separated lots of kinds of plasmids.
  • Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard

    Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
    She is a German biochemical.
    She sudied biology, physics and biochemistry in Frankfurt. Later, she worked in the Institute Max Planck of Tubing. From 1985 on she was the leader of genetics there. She has made a lot of investigations about the fly Drosophila melanogaster and she reshearched how the egg of the fruit fly becomes a break embryo.
    She awardered the 1995 Nobel Prize in Medicin due to the investigations about the embryo that she had made.
  • Fabiola Gianotti

    Fabiola Gianotti
    She is an Italianphysical who achieved the doctorate in experimental particule in the Unibersity of Milan. She works in CERN the world centre of physics particles since 1996, like an investigator and in 2016 she became the first leader woman in that centre.
    In 2012, she gives to be known the discovery of Higgs bosoi with John Incandela.