On May 6th, the Sabin Vaccine Institute will present its Gold Medal in Vaccinology.
For the first time in the award's 16-year history the winner is a woman,
Dr. Ruth Nussenzweig of NYU School of Medicine's Department of Pathology.
The award honors her 40 years of research towards curing malaria.
Five women from around the world were presented with L'OREAL-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards
at the Paris headquarters of UNESCO. The awards alternate between the life sciences and material sciences,
with this year's awards going to leading life scientists.
Professor Lihadh Al-Gazali, Professor V. Narry Kim,
Professor Ada Yonath,
Professor Ana Belén Elgoyhen,
Professor Elizabeth Blackburn.
Jennifer A. Clack, ScD, FLS, Professor and Curator of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Acting Director
of the University Museum of Zoology in Cambridge, UK, been awarded the 2008 Daniel Girault Elliot
medal by the National Academy of Sciences. The medal recognizes excellence in zoology or paleontology
during a three to five year period of time, and the list of past recipients is very distinguished.
In April the U.S. Postal Service will release a new series of stamps honoring 20th Century
American scientists. One of the first four stamps to be released depicts Gerty Cori.
In 1947 she became the first woman in America to receive the Nobel Prize
(along with her husband Carl Ferdinand Cori and Argentine physiologist Bernardo Houssay)
for discovering how glycogen (a form of stored energy in animals) is broken down into sugar,
then turned back into glycogen.
Dec 2007 - Girls won top honors for the first time in the Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology,
one of the nation’s most coveted student science awards,
Don't see someone you think should be here? Try "A 20th Century Woman"
or "Did you Know"
4,000 years of women in science, in technology and other altogether creative stuff!
Did you know that? Science is a traditional role for women.
Dr. Deborah Crocker at the University of Alabama and
Dr. Sethanne Howard retired from the US Naval Observatory maintain this site.
They are both astronomers. They dedicate this site to all those wonderful women of our past.
"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or
opened a new heaven to the human spirit." Helen Keller
We wish we could research in depth all the women listed.
There is just too much information and too little time!
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We hope you enjoy learning about some of these women, and that you use this page to
start your own interests in the history of women and their technical contributions.
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4000 Years of Women in Science presents the Living
Witch of Agnesi. This animated GIF illustrates the curve known as the
Witch of Agnesi that was studied by Maria
Agnesi.
Some interesting facts can be found under
Updated on March 1, 2008.
Now biographies are listed by discipline. Start at the Biographies
where you can branch to the newly ordered list.
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