[Karen W. (OP)]

Maybe you can add a great women in science and

tell us what she did?

Rosalind.. Would you be so kind as to put your

first cousin here at the top of this page.. in

her honor of coarse!

[rosalind dna]

Maybe you can add a great women in science and

tell us what she did?

Rosalind.. Would you be so kind as to put your

first cousin here at the top of this page.. in

her honor of coarse!

Yes the top scientist for me is definitely Rosalind Elsie Franklin, the crystallographer, who through her diffraction techniques discovered the Single DNA helix structure and I hope
we know the rest of the story,. That she was unrecognised in her
day but now Rosalind Franklin is a more noticed name in the world of DNA and genetic sciences than Crick and Watson. Good!!!!

[techmind]

I compiled this list for another purpose originally (I'm recyling it here).

Kathleen Lonsdale - a crystallographer who used X-rays to prove the structure of benzene and worked on the synthesis of diamonds (worked at University College London)   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Lonsdale

(I spent the 3 years of my PhD based in the Kathleen Londsdale building at UCL)

Marjory Stephenson - a biochemist  who worked on microbiology at Cambridge and (with Kathleen Lonsdale) was one of the first two women to be elected to Fellowship of the Royal Society
http://www.biochemj.org/bj/046/0377/0460377_b2.pdf   (obit)

Ada Lovelace (daughter of Lord Byron) - who programmed Babbages' mechanical computers  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace

[rosalind dna]

HOw about Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, who was the very first
British female doctor and sister to Millicent Fawcett.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Garrett_Anderson

Also Dorothy Hodgkins who'd used Protein Crystallography just
like Rosalind Franklin had used Crystallography Diffraction in her research work.,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Crowfoot_Hodgkin

[blakestyger]

Let's hear it for Caroline Herschel (1750-1848).
Sister to the famous William Herschel, she was denied an education as a girl in Germany and was destined to become housekeeper to William who was working in England.
She learned spherical geometry and logarithms in conversations with her brother over their breakfast table and became his observing assistant, compiling catalogues of 2500 nebulae and 1000 double stars.
In his absence she did her own observations and discovered eight comets. She received a prestigious award at 78 and another on her 96th birthday.
(Source: Green & Jones, 2003. Introduction to the Sun and Stars, CUP. )

[ibssz]

Jocelyn Bell Burnell - Discoverer of the first radio pulsar. newbielink:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Bell_Burnell [nonactive]

Florence Nightingale - Inventor of the pie chart and was a pioneer in the medicine industry. newbielink:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Nightingale [nonactive]

[blakestyger]

Not forgetting Annie Jump Cannon (1863 – 1941) an American astronomer whose cataloguing work was instrumental in the development of contemporary stellar classification. With Edward C. Pickering, she is credited with the creation of the Harvard Classification Scheme, which was the first serious attempt to organize and classify stars based on their temperatures.
(Source: Wikipedia).

[Pumblechook]

Maria Skłodowska–Curie...  Needs no intro...

Heather Couper.....

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/cosmology/heather_couper.shtml



Hedy Lammar....

Although better known as an actress, Austrian Hedy Lammar (born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler) was also an influential female inventor.

Hoping to help combat the Nazis in World War II, Lamar and co-inventor George Anthiel developed a “Secret Communications System” that manipulated radio frequencies at irregular intervals between transmission and reception. The resulting unbreakable code prevented classified messages from being intercepted. The “spread spectrum” technology that Lammar helped to invent influenced the digital communications boom, forming the technical backbone that makes possible cellular phones, fax machines and other wireless operations.

[blakestyger]

And then there is Barbara McClintock (1902 - 1992).
US botanist and geneticist best known for the discovery of 'jumping genes', mobile genetic elements (transposons) that move along a chromosome and exert control over its genes. Awarded 1983 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine.

[blakestyger]

And finally, there is Stella Artois (b 1971) bibulous Belgian astronomer famous for her prediction that Grey Matter will one day be apparent here on Earth. She has yet to receive an honour.

[neilep]

Miss Esden my Science teacher was great !

[meerajoh]

The Darwin of our age is certainly Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin. In the words of colleague Max Perutz , she was "a great chemist, a saintly, gentle and tolerant lover of people, and a devoted protagonist of peace".She is known as a founder of the science of protein crystallography.Hodgkin's role in the arena of science policy and international relations was a constant complement to her own scientific work.
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NICKYSAM
newbielink:http://www.inspire-itsolution.com.com [nonactive]

[opus]

Caroline Lucretia Herschel also discovered several nebulae and was the first woman to be paid £50 by George 111 for her astronomical work!

[stevewillie]

I didn't see two very influential women in this thread:

1)Rachel Carson, marine biologist and author (1907-1964); helped launch the modern environmental movement.

2)Margaret Mead, a leading cultural anthropologist (1901-1978)   

[miriam0920]

Marie Curie the famous chemist of all times.

[sunflower]

How about Mary Douglas Leaky. She was a British archaeologist who, while at a dig in Tanzania in 1978, found footprints that were 3.5 million years old. They proved that early man was walking upright long before scientists had predicted.

[Chemistry4me]

How did the footprints prove early man was walking upright? Were there only two of them?

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Why do I get the feeling that you're never going to answer me sunflower?  []

[sunflower]

Hi Chemistry4me. The footprints were preserved in volcanic ash and there were no knuckle imprints.

[dentstudent]

It's probably also possible to determine this by the depth of the print and its full extent, for example, a quadruped with feet similar to ours would not display the same heel mark as a biped.

[Chemistry4me]

Ah, I see. Thank you both.