Women in Science Worksheet

This lifelong advocate of women was the first black female supervisor at NASA in 1949.
She is a native Chicagoan who is both a Doctor of medicine AND an astronaut!
This physicist is considered the most significant woman scientist of the 1900s.
This astronaut was the first Hispanic woman in space!
This stellar woman scientist loved jazz music and studied maize's genetic structure.
This chemist received a Nobel Prize for her research of DNA.
Just call her the fossil expert.
She is a genius who graduated college at 18 and will be 100 years old on August 26th!
She discovered the comet that hit Earth that eventually led to the extinction of the dinosaurs!
This chemist was born in Egypt (cool), and went on to win the Nobel Prize.
As long ago as Ancient Rome, she was the only female professor of her time.
She was the first woman to discover a comet, and lived until she was 98 (#amazing).
She is an astronaut AND Navy Officer!
In the 1800s, this astronomer was advocating for women's right to education.
Her mom is kind of a big deal. Radioactively speaking.
This writer and lover of botany made astronomy reachable to the working class in the 19th Century.
This mathematician was an expert translator.
This impressive woman was the first black woman to earn a Ph.D. from M.I.T.! Omg.
Proudly and deservedly is NASA's first black female engineer!
This virologist's research made it possible to test for the deadly HIV virus.