Test your knowledge of the pioneering women who changed the course of science with their groundbreaking discoveries and unwavering determination.·0 takes
01·Rosalind Franklin's "Photograph 51" was a crucial piece of evidence in determining the double helix structure of what molecule?
02·Marie Curie is the only person to have won the Nobel Prize in two different scientific fields. What were those fields?
03·Physicist Lise Meitner, along with Otto Hahn, provided the first theoretical explanation for which nuclear process?
04·Often considered the first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace wrote an algorithm intended for which of Charles Babbage's machines?
05·Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, a pioneer in computer science, is credited with inventing the first one of these, which translates programming code into machine language.
06·NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson's calculations were critical for the success of which historic 1962 orbital mission for Project Mercury?
07·Dorothy Hodgkin won the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for determining the structure of which complex biomolecule, essential for treating pernicious anemia?
08·The "Wu experiment" conducted by Chien-Shiung Wu provided conclusive evidence against which long-held principle of elementary particle physics?
09·For her work on maize genetics, Barbara McClintock won a Nobel Prize for discovering what mobile genetic elements, also known as "jumping genes"?
10·Rachel Carson's 1962 book, which documented the environmental harm caused by pesticides, is credited with launching the modern environmental movement. What is its title?
11·Astronomer Vera Rubin's observations of galaxy rotation curves provided some of the first and most robust evidence for the existence of what?
12·While a postgraduate student in 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell co-discovered the first of what type of rapidly rotating neutron star?
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