57) Doris Zemurray Stone. Archaeologist and anthropologist focusing in Honduras and Other Central American Countries. Born: 19 November 1909, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America Died: 21 October 1994, Covington, Louisiana, United States of America Doris began working in the 1920’s; because of her father’s business ventures she traveled frequently to Honduras, Costa Rica,…
56) Kathleen Kenyon Archaeologist Most Remembered for Helming the Excavation of Jericho. Born: 5 January 1906, London, United Kingdom Died: 24 August 1978, Wrexham, United Kingdom The excavation took the site all the way back to the Stone Age and showed it to be the oldest continually occupied human site ever discovered. Kathleen first worked…
55) Jyoti Singh She was Going to be a Doctor Born: 1989, India Died: 29 December 2012, Singapore Sadly, when you Google her name the top result is the Wikipedia page about the trial and the names of the men who hurt her come up!! They were found guilty thank the gods but one of…
36) Sherilyn “Sheri” McCoy Who Says Business and Science Can’t Mix? Born: 1959, Quincy, Massachusetts, United States of America Former CEO of Avon Beauty (from 2012 to 2018). She became a director of Novocure in 2018. Before working at Avon, she was pretty high up on the Board of Directors for Johnson and Johnson. Sheri…
19) Mae C Jemison Yes, you can buy her Lego mini figurine and it’s so cute!! Born: 17 October 1956, Decatur, Alabama, United States of America Astronaut known for being the first African American woman to ever go to space. She is fluent in English, Swahili, Russian, and Japanese. Mae is the youngest of three…
18) Sally Ride The First American Woman to Go to Space Born: 26 May 1851, Encino, California, United States of America Died: 23 July 2012, La Jolla, California, United States of America The first American woman to become an astronaut after entering space in 1983 aboard the space shuttle Challenger working as a mission specialist….
17) Elizabeth Blackburn She researches and teaches, so take that those who say if you can’t do, teach. Born: 36 November 1948, Hobart, Australia Former President of Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Elizabeth was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009 with two others. According to the Nobel Prize website, Elizabeth was awarded…
16) Valentina Tereshkova The First Woman to Ever Go to Space (And the Youngest) Born: 6 March 1937, Bolshoye, Soviet Union (Present-day Russia) Cosmonaut and the first woman to ever go to space; in 1963 she orbited the Earth forty-eight times and spent approximately seventy hours in space. Valentina didn’t have much formal schooling and…
14) Rosalind Franklin DNA and The Science of Sexism in the Workplace Born: 25 July 1920, Notting Hill, London, United Kingdom Died: 16 April 1958, Chelsea, London, United Kingdom Geneticist who discovered the structure of DNA and then had the credit taken away from her by two men who later won the Nobel Prize. They…
13) Henrietta Lacks She was more than just her cells Born: 1 August 1920, Roanoke, Virginia, United States of America Died: 4 October 1951, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America Henrietta was a mother, wife, and cervical cancer patient whose immortal cells have saved millions of lives since they were “legally” taken in 1958. Her…