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27 Women Scientists

The history of science can at times read like a list of bearded old men but there have
been many incredible and inspiring women who have changed our understanding of
the world around us.

Pictures and valuable contributions of some women scientists are given below.
Write their names.
This German
She is an merican This Canadian She is the first
physicist proposed
scientist and scientist invented woman computer
the shell structure of
cytogeneticist who ‘Blissymol Printer’ scientist who
the atomic nucleus
received Nobel Prize which helps the developed the first
and was awarded
in 1883 for the differently disabled programme for
the Nobel Prize in
discovery of genetic people in computers.
transposition. Physics. communication. __________________
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A novelist and a
She is British professor of She is credited with
scientist who Theoretical the discovery of
discovered the Epiclemiology at radium. She is the
structure of DNA Oxford University. first woman to have Clue Corner
and the viruses. She has been won a Nobel Prize
honoured by the for Chemistry. a) Ada Lovelace Byron
__________________ b) Marie Curie
zoological society of
__________________ c) Rachel Zimmerman
5 London with the
scientific medal. 7 d) Barbara McClintock
e) Maria Mayer
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f) Rosalind Franklin
6 g) Sunetra Gupta

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