DISCOVERING SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE

In multiple scientific fields, these women have made significant discoveries that rocked the world--from the discovery of DNA (the lesser- known scientist on the team who first saw the double helix) to radioactivity to the recent LIGO team that found the first evidence of gravitational waves in the universe.

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DISCOVERING SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE
c. 370- Hypatia
1811- Sophie Germain
1890s - Marie Curie
1893- Henrietta Swan Leavitt
1905- Nettie Stevens
1920- Emmy Noether
1926- Grete Hermann
1935- Irene Joliot-Curie
1939- Lise Meitner
1942- Hedy Lamarr
1943- Gertrude Blanch
1950s- Barbara McClintock
1950s- Chien-Shiung Wu
1953- Rosalind Franklin
1963- Maria Goeppert Mayer
1960s- Mildred Dresselhaus
1964- Dorothy “Crowfoot” Hodgkin
1967- Jocelyn Bell Burnell
1969- Katherine Johnson
1972- Yvonne Brill
2001- Lene Hau
1936 - Inge Lehmann
1964 - Stephanie Kwolek
1947 - Mária Telkes
ACTIVISM FOR HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
AUGMENTING HUMAN POTENTIAL
COURAGEOUS LEADERSHIP
GIVING VOICE
MEDICAL SCIENCE BREAKTHROUGHS
PEACE ACTIVISM
PROMOTING HUMAN RIGHTS
PROTECTING THE EARTH
TRANSFORMING THE ARTS
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