1. Women’s History Month Science

2. Women’s History Month in the United States grew out of a weeklong celebration of women’s contributions to culture, history and society organized by the school district of Sonoma, California, in 1978. Presentations were given at dozens of schools, hundreds of students participated in a “Real Woman” essay contest and a parade was held in downtown Santa Rosa.

3. Mead was one of the world's most accomplished cultural anthropologists, introducing the western world to the ways of live of native cultures in remote areas of the globe.

4. Nightingale is best known for her work ministering to soldiers during the Crimean War as well as her efforts to professionalize nursing and standardize nursing education worldwide.

5. A primatologist, Jane Goodall has made a lifelong study of chimpanzees, and has done more than anyone else to spread understanding of their importance to the human race and advocate for their conservation. She is a United Nations Messenger of Peace and a renowned and respected conservationist.

6. Yalow is a nuclear physicist who spent her life researching hormones. She was awarded the 1977 Nobel Prize for Medicine.

7. Earle is a noted American oceanographer and underwater explorer who has logged thousands of hours underwater and worked to further human understanding of the world's oceans and their importance to the health of the planet.

8. Curie discovered the elements radium and polonium, and coined the term "radioactivity." She won the Nobel Prize in both physics and chemistry.

9. Pictured here with her father Sigmund, Anna was a leading pioneer in the field of psychoanalysis.

10. Cannon was an influential astronomer and the first woman to receive an honorary doctorate from Oxford.

11. Wu was a noted nuclear scientist who worked on the Manhattan Project, the WWII-era initiative that produced the world's first atomic bombs.

12. Blackwell was the first woman physician in the United States.

13. Elion won the 1988 Nobel Prize winner in medicine for her work, along with George Hitchings, in developing drugs to treat leukemia and AIDS.

14. Mayer and Prof. Hans D. Jenson of the University of Heidelberg in Germany were co-winners of the 1963 Nobel Prize for Physics for their joint discoveries on nuclear shell structure.

15. Women's History Month is an annual declared month that highlights the contributions of women to events in history and contemporary society. It is celebrated during March in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, corresponding with International Women’s Day on March 8, and during October in Canada.

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