Women Scientists By Nancy Veglahn Project by Carrie Mahagan 6 th Period
1859- Alice Eastwood is born Nettie Maria Stevens is born Annie Jump Cannon is born Alice Hamilton is born Edith Quimby is born Eastwood publishes 1st book & becomes curator of botany at California Academy of Sciences Gerty Cori is born Stevens studies in Italy & Germany Margaret Mead is born
1902 Barbara McClintock is born: Hamilton investigates typhoid epidemic Stevens receives Ellen Richards Prize for paper on gender determination Rachel Carson is born 1919 to Quimby experiments with radiation doses and publishes results Rosalyn Yalow is born Cannon discovers a nova Hamilton publishes Industrial Poisons in the United States
1928- Mead publishes Coming of Age in Samoa Mildred Dresselhaus is born Cannon wins Draper Medal, National Academy of Sciences; McClintock publishes 1st paper on genetic crossover in corn Cannon wins Ellen Richards Prize Cori discovers Cori-ester Cannon named William Cranch Bond Astronomer 1930
1945- McClintock becomes president of the Genetics Society of America Cori wins Nobel Prize with husband Carl and another scientist Eastwood named honorary president of the 7th International Botanical Congress Carson publishes The Sea Around Us, it wins National Book Prize Quimby wins Medal of the American Cancer Society
1959- Yalow publishes study on insulin and its antibody 1962-Carson publishes the controversial Silent Spring Dresselhaus named full professor at MIT McClintock wins National Medal of Science Yalow wins Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology
1978- Quimby receives Coolidge Award, American Association of Physicists in Medicine McClintock wins Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology Dresselhaus elected president of the American Physical Society
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Summary Many women scientists have made great contributions to the world of science and proved that they are no less intelligent or successful an men. Women such as Alice Hamilton, Rachel Carson, Annie Jump Cannon, and Edith Quimby have been great influences in the fields of genetics, physiology, and medicine.