Women Scientists and Engineers who Inspire
Be Inspired...This website is focused on helping inspire students, budding girl and young women scientists, by discovering amazing contributions remarkable women scientists and engineers and their supporters have made to improve conditions for the human race. These women worked in adverse non-supportive conditions often without appreciation. We salute them !
Image source: Rosalind Franklin by AnglesAndAcid Rosalind Elsie Franklin (25 July 1920 – 16 April 1958[1]) was an English chemist and X-ray crystallographer who made contributions to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), RNA (ribonucleic acid), viruses, coal, and graphite.[2] Although her works on coal and viruses were appreciated in her lifetime, her contributions to the discovery of the structure[…]
Marie Skłodowska Curie (/ˈkjʊri, kjʊˈriː/;[2] French: [kyʁi]; Polish: [kʲiˈri]; 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934), born Maria Salomea Skłodowska [ˈmarja salɔˈmɛa skwɔˈdɔfska], was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and only woman to[…]