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Known for: The first African American Woman to become an Astronaut.
9)Mary Leaky:
Dates: February 6, 1913 - December 9, 1996
Known for: Mary Leakey studied early humans and hominids at Olduvai Gorge and Laetoli in East Africa. Some of her discoveries were originally credited to her husband and co-worker, Louis Leakey. Her discovery of footprints in 1976 confirmed that australopithecines walked on two feet 3.75 million years ago.
10)Maria Goeppert Mayer:
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15)Mina Rees
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KnownAugust 2nd, 1902-October 25th, 1997
Known for: She served as the first woman president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
16)Ellen Swallow Richards:
Dates: December 3, 1842 – March 30, 1911
Known for: Sheila Tobias wrote Overcoming Math Anxiety, about women's experience of math education; she has researched and written extensively about gender issues in math and science education.
23)Rosalyn Sussman Yalow:
Dates: July 19th, 1921-
Known for: The first woman to be awarded the Albert Lasker Prize for Basic Medical Research.

1)Virginia Apgar:
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1909-1974 1909-1974
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Designed Designed & introduced
2)Clara Barton:
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1821-1912 1821-1912
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She She founded the
3)Florence Bascom:
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First First woman geologist
4)Elizabeth Blackwell:
I do not wish to give [women] a first place, still less a second one--but the most complete freedom, to take their true place whatever it may be," asserted pioneer physician Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910) in this spirited response to a suggestion by Lady Noel Byron (1792-1860) that women doctors should assume a secondary position in the medical profession. Blackwell, who against great odds became the first woman in the United States to obtain a medical degree, took umbrage at Byron's "fatal error" of ranking human beings according to sex instead of character."http://international.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/mcc:@field(DOCID+@lit(mcc/065))
5)Rachel Carson
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The The founder of
6)Marie Maynard Daly
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8)Dr. Mae Jemison:
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The The first African
9)Mary Leaky:
Dates: February 6, 1913 - December 9, 1996
10)Maria Goeppert Mayer:
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The The first woman
11)Barbara McClintock:
Dates: June 16, 1902 - September 2, 1992
12)Margaret Mead:
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The The first woman
13)Maria Mitchell:
**Maria Mitchell**
23)Rosalyn Sussman Yalow:
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The The first woman

1905–95, American public official and newspaper publisher, U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare (1953–55), b. Killeen, Tex. She served as parliamentarian of the Texas house of representatives from 1925 to 1931 and from 1939 to 1941. In 1931 she married William Pettus Hobby, former governor of Texas (1917–21) and publisher of the Houston Post. She held various positions on the newspaper and at the family-owned broadcasting company. In World War II she became (1942) director of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC), which, in 1943, became the Women's Army Corps (WAC). She was commissioned colonel in 1943 and remained director until 1945. Appointed Federal Security Administrator under President Eisenhower, she became (Apr., 1953) the first Secretary of the newly created Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare, the only woman in the cabinet. In July, 1955, she resigned to succeed her ailing husband as editor of the Houston Post, later (1965) becoming chairman of the board. The newspaper, now closed, was sold to the Toronto Sun Publishing Co. of Canada in 1983.
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in 1870.
Eleanor Roosevelt- First activist first lady.

Virginia1)Virginia Apgar:
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1909-1974
Known for:
Designed & introduced the Apgar Score.
Clara2)Clara Barton:
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1821-1912
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She founded the American Red Cross in 1881.
Florence3)Florence Bascom:
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Known for:
First woman geologist in this country.
Elizabeth4)Elizabeth Blackwell:
I do not wish to give [women] a first place, still less a second one--but the most complete freedom, to take their true place whatever it may be," asserted pioneer physician Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910) in this spirited response to a suggestion by Lady Noel Byron (1792-1860) that women doctors should assume a secondary position in the medical profession. Blackwell, who against great odds became the first woman in the United States to obtain a medical degree, took umbrage at Byron's "fatal error" of ranking human beings according to sex instead of character."http://international.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/mcc:@field(DOCID+@lit(mcc/065))
The great object of education has nothing to do with woman’s rights or man’s rights, but with the development of the human soul and body. My great dream is of a grand moral reform society, a wide movement ... combined that it could be brought to bear on any outrage or prominent evil .
She was the first woman to graduate medical school.
Rachel5)Rachel Carson
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The founder of the Environmental Movement.
Marie6)Marie Maynard Daly
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Diane7)Diane Fossey:
She was an American zoologist who completed an extensive study of eight gorilla groups by closely observing their lives in the mountain forests of Rwanda. Her work was similar to Jane Goodall’s research on chimpanzees.
Dates: April 3, 1934 -
Known for: Primatologist Jane Goodall is known for her chimpanzee observation and research at Gombe Stream Reserve.
Dr.8)Dr. Mae Jemison:
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Known for:
The first African American Woman to become an Astronaut.
Mary9)Mary Leaky:
Dates: February 6, 1913 - December 9, 1996
Known for: Mary Leakey studied early humans and hominids at Olduvai Gorge and Laetoli in East Africa. Some of her discoveries were originally credited to her husband and co-worker, Louis Leakey. Her discovery of footprints in 1976 confirmed that australopithecines walked on two feet 3.75 million years ago.
Maria10)Maria Goeppert Mayer:
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Known for:
The first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Physics for theoretical physics.
Barbara11)Barbara McClintock:
Dates: June 16, 1902 - September 2, 1992
Known for: Geneticist Barbara McClintock won the 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology for her discovery of transposable genes.
Margaret12)Margaret Mead:
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Known for:
The first woman Anthropologist.
Maria13)Maria Mitchell:
**Maria Mitchell**
Dates: January 15, 1850 - February 10, 1891
Known for: Maria Mitchell was the first professional woman astronomer in the United States. She was the first woman member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Dixy14)Dixy Lee Ray
Dates: September 3, 1914 - January 3, 1994
Known for: A marine biologist and environmentalist, Dixy Lee Ray taught at the University of Washington. She was tapped by President Richard M. Nixon to head the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) where she defended nuclear power plants as environmentally responsible. In 1976, she ran for governor of Washington state, winning one term, then losing the Democratic primary in 1980.
Mina15)Mina Rees
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Ellen16)Ellen Swallow Richards:
Dates: December 3, 1842 – March 30, 1911
Known for: Ellen Swallow Richards was the first woman in the United States to be accepted at a scientific school. A chemist, she's credited with founding the discipline of home economics.
Sally17)Sally Ride:
**Sally Ride**
Dates: May 26, 1951 -
Known for: Sally Ride was the first American woman in space.
Florence18)Florence Sabin
Dates: November 9, 1871 - October 3, 1953
Known for: Called the "first lady of American science," Florence Sabin studied the lymphatic and immune systems. She was the first female to hold a full professorship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, where she had begun studying in 1896. She advocated for women's rights and higher education.
Margaret19)Margaret Sanger:
**Margaret Sanger**
Dates: September 14, 1879 - September 6, 1966
Known for: Margaret Sanger was a nurse who promoted birth control as a means by which a woman could exercise control over her life and health.
Charlotte20)Charlotte Scott:
**Charlotte Angas Scott**
Dates: June 8, 1858 - November 10, 1931
Known for: Charlotte Angas Scott was the first head of the mathematics department at Bryn Mawr College. She also initiated the College Entrance Examination Board and helped organize the American Mathematical Society.
Helen21)Helen Taussig:
Dates: May 24, 1898 - May 20, 1986
Known for: Helen Brooke Taussig discovered the cause of the problem called "blue babies" and developed with a colleague a shunt, the Blalock-Taussig shunt, to correct the condition. She was also responsible for identifying the drug Thalidomide as the cause of a rash of birth defects in Europe.
Shieila22)Shieila Tobias:
**Sheila Tobias**
Dates: April 26, 1935 -
Known for: Sheila Tobias wrote Overcoming Math Anxiety, about women's experience of math education; she has researched and written extensively about gender issues in math and science education.
Rosalyn23)Rosalyn Sussman Yalow:
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Sandra Day O'Connor
had a reputation for being cold and humorless. Justice O'Connor was regarded as a consummate compromiser; her goal on issues was simply to achieve a majority vote. She is considered to be tough and is a conservative, but not as tough or conservative when it comes to women's rights and children. O'Connor made it clear that she believes a court's role, including that of the Supreme Court, is to interpret and not to legislate. She has been referred to as the most influential woman in America.http://phoenix.about.com/cs/famous/a/oconnor.htm
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Ruth Joan Bader Ginsburg (born March 15, 1933) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Ginsburg was appointed by Democratic President Bill Clinton. Ginsburg took the oath of office August 10, 1993. Generally she votes with the liberal wing of the Court. She is the second female justice (after Sandra Day O'Connor) and the first Jewish female justice.
Ginsburg spent a considerable portion of her career as an advocate for the equal citizenship status of women and men as a constitutional principle. She advocated as a volunteer lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union and was a member of its board of directors and one of its general counsel in the 1970s. She was a professor at Rutgers School of Law—Newark and Columbia Law School. In 1980, PresidentJimmy Carter appointed her to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. In 2009, Forbes named her among the 100 Most Powerful Women.[3]
Judge Sonia Sotomayor
is the first Latina to sit on the United States Supreme Court. She was a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit when President Barack Obama picked her to replace retired justiceDavid Souter on the U.S. Supreme Court in 2009.

improved education opportunities for all african americans
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Elizabeth Blackwell 1st
First woman doctor. taught many women how to be doctors
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one of the first african american women to get a doctorate in mathematics
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Winifred Merrill 1st
First woman to get a Ph.D in mathematics. taught for many years
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was Boston's wealthiest woman in the 19th century. donated a lot of money to help further education and charities
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Josephine Hoeppner 1st
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She was the first woman to graduate medical school.
Rachel Carson
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The founder of the Environmental Movement.
Marie Maynard Daly
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Known for:
Diane Fossey:
She was an American zoologist who completed an extensive study of eight gorilla groups by closely observing their lives in the mountain forests of Rwanda. Her work was similar to Jane Goodall’s research on chimpanzees.
Known for: Primatologist Jane Goodall is known for her chimpanzee observation and research at Gombe Stream Reserve.
Dr. Mae Jemison:
Dates:
Known for:
The first African American Woman to become an Astronaut.
Mary Leaky:
Known for: Mary Leakey studied early humans and hominids at Olduvai Gorge and Laetoli in East Africa. Some of her discoveries were originally credited to her husband and co-worker, Louis Leakey. Her discovery of footprints in 1976 confirmed that australopithecines walked on two feet 3.75 million years ago.
Maria Goeppert Mayer:
Dates:
Known for:
The first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Physics for theoretical physics.
Barbara McClintock:
Known for: Geneticist Barbara McClintock won the 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology for her discovery of transposable genes.
Margaret Mead:
Dates:
Known for:
The first woman Anthropologist.
Maria Mitchell:
Known for: Sheila Tobias wrote Overcoming Math Anxiety, about women's experience of math education; she has researched and written extensively about gender issues in math and science education.
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow:
Dates:
Known for:
The first woman to be awarded the Albert Lasker Prize for Basic Medical Research.

Virginia Apgar:
Dates:
Known for:
Designed & introduced the Apgar Score.
Clara Barton:
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Known for:
She founded the American Red Cross in 1881.
Florence Bascom:
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Known for:
First woman geologist in this country.
Elizabeth Blackwell:
Dates: September 3, 1914 - January 3, 1994
Known for: A marine biologist and environmentalist, Dixy Lee Ray taught at the University of Washington. She was tapped by President Richard M. Nixon to head the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) where she defended nuclear power plants as environmentally responsible. In 1976, she ran for governor of Washington state, winning one term, then losing the Democratic primary in 1980.
Mina Rees
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Known for:
Ellen Swallow Richards:
Dates: December 3, 1842 – March 30, 1911

Babe Didrikson
-Female Basketball star, golf player, and track runner.
Amilea Earhart- First female to fly cross atlantic and many other adventurous flights. Record holder.