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The Birth of Maria Sibylla Merian
Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) was a famous entomologists. She is very well known for her life-like drawings of different insects and plants. Every since she was a child she had loved nature and was always fascinated by how important it is and how it is treated. When her mother re-married a painter he encouraged Merian to paint and draw. With her continued passion for the environment and her research she was able to discover the life cycles of 186 insect species. -
The Birth of Maria Mitchell
Maria Mitchell (1818-1889) worked alongside her father who was an astronomer. Her parents believed in equal education for both genders so she was very smart. Her father built a school and Mitchell used to work there. At the age of 12 and a half Mitchell knew how to use a telescope and helped her father track the exact timing of a solar eclipse. In the year 1847 her father had built his own observatory with a four inch telescope where he would perform observations for the US Coast Guard. One ni -
The Birth of Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale was born on the 12th of May 1820 and died on the 13th of August 1910. She grew up in a wealthy family and had a good education. When Nightingale first told her parents she wanted to be a nurse they were very unhappy, as they didn’t think it was a job for the upper class. Finally in 1851 Her farther agreed and said Nightingale could become a nurse. When Nightingale started working at the army hospital in Scutari she found the conditions awful. The soldiers had been kept in -
The Birth of Ellen Richards
Ellen Richards was born on December 3rd 1842 and died on March 30th 1911. In 1870 Richards graduated from Vassar College and was then one of the first women to be admitted into MIT. After she studied there she established a women’s laboratory at MIT and taught there until she died. She taught sanitary chemistry. -
The Birth of Marie Curie
Marie Curie was born on the 7th of November 1867 and died on July the 4th 1934. Received a local school education and then in 1891 moved to Paris to continue her education. While in Paris she received licentiateships in physics and mathematical sciences. 1894 she met Pierre Curie and married him a year later.The discovery of radioactivity inspired them both to research the isolation of polonium, radium and the discover separation method of radium from radioactive residues. Marie Curie also did -
The Birth of Lise Meitner
Lise Meitner was born on the 7th of November 1878 and died on October 27th 1968. As a child Meitner had a knack for maths so her father put her in private tutoring lessons so she could have a good education. When Meitner had finished school she was the second woman in the world to have graduated from the University of Vienna getting a Ph.D. in physics. For the rest of her life she continued her research in physics and in the last years of her life she travelled the world to inspire woman. -
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Cecilia Was inspired to study astronomy when she was listening to a lecture about an eclipse expedition to Africa to test Einstein’s theory of revolution. Once she graduated from Cambridge she moved to the US to start her career in astronomy. Throughout her career she worked at Harvard doing different jobs and writing papers and finally when Donald Menez took over as director in 1954 she became the first woman to be the head of a department. -
The Birth of Margaret Mead.
Margaret Mead was born on the 16th of December 1901 and died on the 15th of November 1978. She was anthropologist. She went Barnard College in New York and got her Ph.D. and M.A. from Columbia University. -
The Brith of Grace Hopper
Grace Hopper was born on the 9th of December 1906 and died on January 1st 1992. She was a American computer scientist and also was a Navy Rear Admiral. Her studies led to independant computers and the solutions to fixing computer glitches. -
The Birth of Rachel Carson
Rachel Carson was born on the 27th of May 1907 and died on April 14th 1964. She was a marine biologist. She has written several books about nature and wildlife. In the 1950’s Carson decided to change what she was researching on and started to learn about environmental issues. -
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The Birth of Esther Conwell
Esther Conwell (May 23rd 1922 - present) studied at Brooklyn College, University of Rochester and the University of Chicago, in all of which she studied physics and got a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1948. She is now a professor of Chemistry and Physics at the University of Rochester and has published over 200 papers.
She has received the Achievement Award of the Society of Women Engineers and an Honorary D.Sc. from Brooklyn College.
In November 2002, Discover Magazine listed Prof. -
The Birth of Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall (April 3rd 1934-present) is a British primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist, best known for her important studies of chimpanzees, animal welfare projects and wildlife conservation. She is considered the world’s foremost expert on chimpanzees, having done a 45-year study of social interactions on chimpanzees in the wild. She also observed behaviors such as hugs, kisses, pats on the back, and even tickling, what we consider "human" actions. -
The Birth of Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Jocelyn Bell Burnell (July 15th 1943 - present) is an Irish Astronomer born in Belfast. As a research assistant, she helped build a large radio telescope and discovered pulsars, providing the first direct evidence for the existence of rapidly spinning neutron stars. -
The Birth of Elizabeth Blackburn
Elizabeth Blackburn (November 26th 1948 - present) is an American - Australian biological researcher. She currently works at the University of California in San Francisco and studies the telomere, a structure at the end of chromosomes that protects the chromosomes. In addition to that, she co-discovered telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes the telomere. -
The Birth of Jacqueline K. Barton
Jacqueline K. Barton (May 7th 1952 - present) is an American Chemist of which her research is focused on charge transport in DNA. -
The Birth of Persis Drell
Persis Drell (1955 - present) is an American physicist best known for her expertise in the field of particle physics and most famously, she oversaw the BaBar experiment (an international collaboration of more than 500 physicists and engineers studying the subatomic world at energies of approximately ten times the rest mass of a proton). -
The Birth of Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Franklin (July 25th 1920- April 6th 1958) was a British biophysicist and X-ray crystallographer. She made some very critical discoveries about the fine molecular structures of DNA. She is best known for her discoveries of the DNA double helix due to her work on X-ray diffraction images of DNA. Her accurate interpretation of the data provided valuable insight into the DNA structure, but Franklin's scientific contributions to the discovery of the double helix are often overlooked.
