People of Science
Esther Lederberg
In today's post from the Women in Science series, we will present the figure of Esther Lederberg - a microbiologist, immunologist and geneticist. Initially, she studied literature, but was always drawn to biological sciences - she was a...
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Dorothy Hodgkin
Today another of the amazing women of science Women in Science - Mrs. Dorothy Hodgkin. English biochemist and crystallographer. The beginnings of her career, like that of most women adolescents in the early 20th century, were not easy....
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Maria Kirch
Today, in the post from the Women in Science series, we present one of the first astronomers living at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries, a German woman named Maria Kirch, also known as Maria Winkelmann. Maria never received a...
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Barbara McClintock
Today we will present the profile of the American botanist and geneticist Barbara McClintock. Mrs. Barbara has made many discoveries on the border of these two areas. By examining the genetic structure of maize, she illustrated, among...
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Marie Maynard Daly
The heroine of the next entry in the Women in Science series is Marie Maynard Daly, an American, biochemist. She was the first African-American woman to earn a PhD in chemistry. In her scientific career, she has focused on the...
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Lisa Meitner
In the next post from the Women in Science series, we will introduce Ms Lisa Meitner, one of the most outstanding nuclear scientists, an Austrian of Jewish origin, who worked in Germany during World War II, from where she had to flee -...
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Mary Anning
In today's post from the Women in Science series, we will introduce you to a slightly different profession than usual. It won't be biology or chemistry, but palaeontology. Today - Mary Anning, living at the turn of the 18th and 19th...
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Katherine Johnson
Another great woman in our Women in Science series is Katherine Johnson. American mathematician and computator at NASA. She participated in such space flight projects as the Mercury or Apollo program. Little Katherine showed above-average...
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Stephanie Kwolek
In the next post in the Women in Science series, we will present Ms Stephanie Kwolek, an American of Polish origin. She became famous in the field of chemistry - in 1965 she headed the team that invented the polymer from which kevlar is...
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