Can you name any female scientists, inventors or innovators?

Question

I sometimes hear people say that all the most important advances were discovered by men. I just don't buy that half the population of human beings never contributed anything important.

Answer 1

Marie Curie

Answer 2

Debra Palfrey...

Answer 3

There are lots (and there have been lots) of female scientists but rather few female Nobel Prize winners. Luckily for your argument, Marie Curie is inarguably one of the most important scientists in history, and is one of only four people to win two Nobel Prizes. Her research into magnetism eventually lead to breakthrough research into radiation, and she even has an element on the periodic table named after her (curium). So to say that men have been responsible for ALL important breakthroughs isn't true, although we have been responsible for most.

Answer 4

Henrietta Leavitt discovered how to classify stars based on their temperatures and compositions.  Vera Rubin co-discovered dark matter in the rotation curves of galaxies.  Margaret Gellar mapped the local universe.  Not to mention Maria Mitchell and Marie Curie.  And those are just the astronomers I know (because that's what I study).  There's also Jane Goddall, Diane Fossey, and Rachel Carson in biology.  And plenty of others.  Men are most well-known because they were allowed to do science well before women were, and they found most of the cool stuff early on.

Answer 5

Marie Curie, Barbara McClintock, Rosalind Franklin, Rachel Carson...

Answer 6

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