women in science/tech

Description

We'll watch short clips/videos highlighting some of the most spectacular accomplishments of women in architecture, biology, chemistry, computing, engineering, mathematics, physics, psychology, and other fields traditionally dominated by men. Afterwards, we invite everyone to share their reactions to these stories and relate personal experiences.

== == == == == == == == == == == == == == == Ada Lovelace Byron Florence Nightingale: pioneer statistician

Marie Curie Emmy Noether

Mária Telkes: solar-powered desalination, solar oven, solar-heated house

Dorothy Hodgkin: X-ray crystallography of vitamin B-12 and insulin Dorothy Vaughan Katherine Johnson Mamie Clark

Rosalind Franklin: X-ray crystallography of graphite, DNA, and RNA

Jane Goodall Margaret Hamilton Wally Funk

Karen Uhlenbeck Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard: developmental genes Elizabeth Loftus Shirley Ann Jackson: MIT President Elizabeth Blackburn: telomerase

Zaha Hadid Angela Merkel

Carol W. Greider: telomerase Lisa Randall Jennifer Doudna: CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing Emmanuelle Charpentier: CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing Evelyn Glennie

Angela Belcher: biomaterials Fei-Fei Li Maryam Mirzakhani: mathematical visionary

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