Who are some female scientist that did something important?

Question

I have to do a report on a famous woman in biological science can you name some?

Answer 1

Rosalind Franklin (mentioned by several above) is probably amongst the most famous female biologists.

Some others you might consider:

Friederike "Joy" Adamson - raised a wild lion cub named Elsa, and wrote a book shot a movie about it, which was tremendously influential in the fields of conservation, and education about wild animals, especially big cats.

Jane Goodall - has devoted her life to studying wild chimpanzees, and has written many books about her research. Highly influential in how we treat chimpanzees today.

Alice Hamilton - Addressed the sicknesses caused in workers by the poor air quality in mills, factories and stockyards, and later other workplace health problems, and worked to get laws protecting workers passed in every state in the U.S., some of the first Occupational Health and Safety regulations anywhere. Also became the first woman professor at Harvard Medical School.

Ellen Richards - Became MIT's first woman student, although they would not let her get a doctorate degree. She noticed that everything in the natural world was affected by pollutants, and fought to make people aware of this. She founded and named the field of science we now call ecology.

Answer 2

Marie Curie, of course, was not a biologist. She
would be a good choice otherwise. To the list
of people your other answers have suggested you
might add Libbie H. Hyman. She produced a
monumental set of six volumes on invertebrate
animals that have been a standard reference ever
since. Unfortunately she did not live long enough
to finish covering all the invertebrates.

Answer 3

Marie Curie
1867-1934
Poland/France-chemist
Marie Curie was born in Warsaw in 1867 she was the daughter of secondary school teacher she received her education in local schools and some scientific training from her father. In 1891 she went to Paris to continue her studies at the Sorbonne where she obtained her license in physics and mathematical sciences. Later she met her soon to be husband Pierre Curie a professor at the school of Physics in 1894 that following year they were married. Her husband and Marie began to work in the same lab together until one day her husband was killed in a tragic accident. After that she began to work in the lab by herself and pursued her discovery and discovered a new element Radium. Marie won several awards. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize for her discovery. In fact, she won two Nobel Prizes and her daughter also won a Nobel Prize for her scientific discoveries. Marie Curie was a very prestigous woman of science.

Answer 4

Definitely remember Rachel Carson, Barbara McClintock, Marie Curie, and Rosalind Franklin. Plenty of web information about all of the above.

Answer 5

I don't know whether Rebecca Cann had anything to do with the use of the Mitochondrial Eve theory to suggest that modern humans came out of Africa as late as 135,000 years ago. But some have made that suggestion, and it's baloney. Too much has been made of the Mitochondrial Eve theory, in my opinion. It tentatively suggests that the pure maternal line of every living human's ancestry can be traced to Africa. However, there are lots of other lines about which you know nothing geographical because they are mixed in gender, containing many father-daughter or mother-son links, and so MtDNA Eve might have had human contemporaries most anywhere. In order to patch up the idea that hominids emerged from Africa as recently as 135000 years ago, some folks have proposed that there was a population bottleneck at that time. Ah. A bottleneck. How fortuitous! Now, there's a way to trace your pure patrilineal line also, through the DNA on the Y-chromosome of men. This line, too, has been tentatively traced to Africa; however, it was traced to Africa only 72000 years ago. Nobody thinks that the emergence of hominids from Africa was as recent as 72000 years ago. We can't keep proposing "population bottlenecks" every time they might be convenient, can we? So obviously too much as been made of the Mitochondrial Eve theory. It should never have been made to seem to imply that humans came out of Africa as recently as 135000 years ago.

Answer 6

marie curie

you must also consider all the wives who were behind the inventors like graham bell right brothers edison and so on

Answer 7

Marie Curie:http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1903/marie-curie-bio.html

or you can take your pick from many:http://www.factmonster.com/spot/whmbios2.html

Answer 8

Here you go... Pick one!