Monday, September 22, 2014

A LOOK AT PAST AND PRESENT SCIENTISTS WOMEN

http://focus.tv5monde.com/femmesetsciences/

Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron's daughter, was world's first computer programmer:
http://mentalfloss.com/article/53131/ada-lovelace-first-computer-programmer

Emilie du Chatelet studied the nature of light and heat, especially fire:
http://www.humantouchofchemistry.com/emilie-du-chatelet.htm

Marie Curie is one of  the most famous scientists that ever lived and only one that won Nobel Prize twice:
http://departments.kings.edu/womens_history/mariecurie.html

Amalie Emmy Noether, Creative Mathematical Genius
https://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/noether.html

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin discovered that the sun is made of mostly hydrogen.
http://berkeleysciencereview.com/the-magnifying-glass-ceiling-the-plight-of-women-in-science/

Marguerite Perey discovered a new element which she named francium in honor of her country
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/magazine/my-great-great-aunt-discovered-francium-and-it-killed-her.html?ref=magazine