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Do you like the challenge of figuring out why things are the way they are? Do you like math or science? You're in good company!!</p> <p>Women have been making significant contributions in math and science for as long as humans have been studying these subjects.</p> <div class="masonry columns-3"> <div class="brick-item"> <div class="showcase-quick-facts math" id="linda-hayden"> <h3 class="showcase-name">Linda Hayden</h3> <div class="portrait"><img alt="Linda Hayden Headshot" class="img-responsive cmsContentImg" src="/File.aspx?id=146421&v=2dd58283" style="max-width: 100%; max-height: 100%;"> <p class="caption formatContent_firstParagraph">Image courtesy of Elizabeth City State University</p> </div> <h3 class="showcase-career">Mathematician</h3> <p class="formatContent_firstParagraph">Linda Hayden is a professor at ECSU and is well-known for her dedication to increasing opportunities for minorities in math and science fields.</p> <a href="https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/linda-hayden" class="linkTextBlock">Learn more about her from The HistoryMakers.</a></div> </div>  <div class="brick-item"> <div class="showcase-quick-facts chemistry" id="omowunmi-sadik"> <h3 class="showcase-name">Omowunmi Sadik</h3> <div class="portrait"><img alt="Omowunmi Sadik Headshot" class="img-responsive cmsContentImg" src="/File.aspx?id=146419&v=f156a902" style="max-width: 100%; max-height: 100%;"> <p class="caption formatContent_firstParagraph">Image courtesy of SUNY Binghamton</p> </div> <h3 class="showcase-career">Chemist</h3> <p class="formatContent_firstParagraph">Omowunmi Sadik is a professor at Binghamton University and a leader in the field of research studying biosensors and sustainable nanotechnology.</p> <a href="https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/omowunmi-sadik" class="linkTextBlock">Learn more about her from The HistoryMakers.</a></div> </div>  <div class="brick-item"> <div class="showcase-quick-facts chemistry" id="gertrude-elion"> <h3 class="showcase-name">Gertrude Bell Elion</h3> <div class="portrait"><img alt="Gertrude Bell Elion" class="img-responsive cmsContentImg" src="/File.aspx?id=131755" style="max-width: 100%; max-height: 100%;"> <p class="caption formatContent_firstParagraph">Image courtesy of Wikipedia</p> </div> <h3 class="showcase-career">Biochemist</h3> <p class="formatContent_firstParagraph">Gertrude Bell Elion discovered medications for HIV/AIDS, immunity disorders, and leukemia; winning the Nobel Prize with her colleague George Hitchings.</p> <a href="https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1988/elion/biographical/" class="linkTextBlock">Learn more about her from the Nobel Prize Foundation.</a></div> </div>  <div class="brick-item"> <div class="showcase-quick-facts physics-astro" id="maria-mitchell"> <h3 class="showcase-name">Maria Mitchell</h3> <div class="portrait"><img alt="Maria Mitchell" class="img-responsive cmsContentImg" src="/File.aspx?id=131496" style="max-width: 100%; max-height: 100%;"> <p class="caption formatContent_firstParagraph">Public domain image from Wikipedia</p> </div> <h3 class="showcase-career">Astronomer</h3> <p class="formatContent_firstParagraph">Maria Mitchell discovered a comet in 1847 and is widely recognized as the first woman to work as a professional astronomer.</p> <a href="https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/maria-mitchell" class="linkTextBlock">Learn more about her from the National Women's History Museum.</a></div> </div>  <div class="brick-item"> <div class="showcase-quick-facts earth-sci" id="mary-anning"> <h3 class="showcase-name">Mary Anning</h3> <div class="portrait"><img alt="Mary Anning" class="img-responsive cmsContentImg" src="/File.aspx?id=131497" style="max-width: 100%; max-height: 100%;"> <p class="caption formatContent_firstParagraph">Public domain image from Wikipedia</p> </div> <h3 class="showcase-career">Paleontologist</h3> <p class="formatContent_firstParagraph">Mary Anning, starting at age 12, made important fossil finds that contributed to our understanding of prehistoric life on Earth.</p> <a href="https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/mary-anning-unsung-hero.html" class="linkTextBlock">Learn more about her from the UK National History Museum.</a></div> </div>  <div class="brick-item"> <div class="showcase-quick-facts math" id="emmy-noether"> <h3 class="showcase-name">Emmy Noether</h3> <div class="portrait"><img alt="Emmy Noether" class="img-responsive cmsContentImg" src="/File.aspx?id=131522" style="max-width: 100%; max-height: 100%;"> <p class="caption formatContent_firstParagraph">Public domain image from Wikipedia</p> </div> <h3 class="showcase-career">Mathematician</h3> <p class="formatContent_firstParagraph">Emmy Noether helped establish the field abstract algebra and proved Noether's theorem, which is fundamental in modern physics.</p> <a href="https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Noether_Emmy/" class="linkTextBlock">Learn more about her from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland.</a></div> </div>  <div class="brick-item"> <div class="showcase-quick-facts natural-hist" id="alexandria-tinne"> <h3 class="showcase-name">Alexandria Tinné</h3> <div class="portrait"><img alt="Alexandrina Tinne" class="img-responsive cmsContentImg" src="/File.aspx?id=131607" style="max-width: 100%; max-height: 100%;"> <p class="caption formatContent_firstParagraph">Public domain image from Wikipedia</p> </div> <h3 class="showcase-career">Explorer</h3> <p class="formatContent_firstParagraph">Alexandrina Tinné was a Dutch explorer in Africa in the 1860s. She collected now rare artifacts of the material culture in the Sudan.</p> <a href="https://www.womeninexploration.org/timeline/alexandrine-tinne/" class="linkTextBlock">Learn more about her from WomeninExploration.org</a></div> </div>  <div class="brick-item"> <div class="showcase-quick-facts physics-astro" id="maria-mayer"> <h3 class="showcase-name">Maria Goeppert Mayer</h3> <div class="portrait"><img alt="Maria Goeppert Mayer" class="img-responsive cmsContentImg" src="/File.aspx?id=131757" style="max-width: 100%; max-height: 100%;"> <p class="caption formatContent_firstParagraph">Public domain image from US Dept of Energy</p> </div> <h3 class="showcase-career">Physicist</h3> <p class="formatContent_firstParagraph">Maria Goeppert Mayer was awarded the 1963 Nobel Prize in physics for her work on the nuclear shell structure.</p> <a href="https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1963/mayer/biographical/" class="linkTextBlock">Learn more about her from the Nobel Prize Foundation.</a></div> </div>  <div class="brick-item"> <div class="showcase-quick-facts earth-sci" id="marie-tharp"> <h3 class="showcase-name">Marie Tharp</h3> <div class="portrait"><img alt="Marie Tharp" caption="" class="img-responsive cmsContentImg" src="/File.aspx?id=131619" style="max-width: 100%; max-height: 100%;"> <p class="caption formatContent_firstParagraph">Image from of Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory</p> </div> <h3 class="showcase-career">Geologist</h3> <p class="formatContent_firstParagraph">Marie Tharp created a detailed map of the ocean floor that help to prove the theory of continental drift.</p> <a href="https://marietharp.ldeo.columbia.edu/about-marie-tharp" class="linkTextBlock">Learn more about her from Columbia Univeristy.</a></div> </div>  <div class="brick-item"> <div class="showcase-quick-facts biology" id="margaret-collins"> <h3 class="showcase-name">Margaret J. S. Collins</h3> <div class="portrait"><img alt="Margaret J. S. Collins" class="img-responsive cmsContentImg" src="/File.aspx?id=131601" style="max-width: 100%; max-height: 100%;"> <p class="caption formatContent_firstParagraph">Image courtesy <a href="https://bioone.org/journals/florida-entomologist/volume-99/issue-2/024.099.0235/Child-Prodigy-Pioneer-Scientist-and-Women-and-Civil-Rights-Advocate/10.1653/024.099.0235.full" class="linkTextBlock">Barbara Thorpe via <em>Florida Entomologist</em></a></p> </div> <h3 class="showcase-career">Zoologist</h3> <p class="formatContent_firstParagraph">Margaret Collins was the first female African-American entomologist. A field biologist, she studied termites for most of her career and her work is still cited.</p> <a href="https://naturemuseum.org/2021/02/margaret-s-collins/" class="linkTextBlock">Learn more about her from Chicago Academy of Sciences.</a></div> </div>  <div class="brick-item"> <div class="showcase-quick-facts chemistry" id="gertrude-cori"> <h3 class="showcase-name">Gertrude Cori</h3> <div class="portrait"><img alt="Gerty Cori" class="img-responsive cmsContentImg" src="/File.aspx?id=131598" style="max-width: 100%; max-height: 100%;"> <p class="caption formatContent_firstParagraph">Image found at US Library of Congress</p> </div> <h3 class="showcase-career">Biochemist</h3> <p class="formatContent_firstParagraph">Gerty Cori, along with her husband Carl, won the 1947 Nobel Prize in Psysiology or Medicine for their work on the process of glycogen metabolism.</p> <a href="https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1947/cori-gt/biographical/" class="linkTextBlock">Learn more about her from the Nobel Foundation.</a></div> </div>  <div class="brick-item"> <div class="showcase-quick-facts biology" id="rachel-carson"> <h3 class="showcase-name">Rachel Carson</h3> <div class="portrait"><img alt="Rachel Carson" class="img-responsive cmsContentImg" src="/File.aspx?id=131599" style="max-width: 100%; max-height: 100%;"> <p class="caption formatContent_firstParagraph">Public domain image from US Fish & Wildlife Service</p> </div> <h3 class="showcase-career">Marine Biologist</h3> <p class="formatContent_firstParagraph">Rachel Carson is perhaps best known as a  conservationist who wrote The Sea Around Us and Silent Spring.</p> <a href="https://www.rachelcarson.org/" class="linkTextBlock">Learn more about her from RachelCarson.org.</a></div> </div>  <div class="brick-item"> <div class="showcase-quick-facts biology" id="flemmie-kittrell"> <h3 class="showcase-name">Flemmie Pansy Kittrell</h3> <div class="portrait"><img alt="Flemmie Kittrell" class="img-responsive cmsContentImg" src="/File.aspx?id=131615" style="max-width: 100%; max-height: 100%;"> <p class="caption formatContent_firstParagraph">Image from <a href="https://digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/ss:549027" class="linkTextBlock">Cornell University Library</a></p> </div> <h3 class="showcase-career">Nutritionist</h3> <p class="formatContent_firstParagraph">Flemmie Kittrell conducted research on nutrition's role in child development and advocated for programs around the world that promoted better nutrition.</p> <a href="https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/kittrell-flemmie-pansy-1904-1980/" class="linkTextBlock">Learn more about her from BlackPast.org.</a></div> </div>  <div class="brick-item"> <div class="showcase-quick-facts math" id="marie-sophie-germain"> <h3 class="showcase-name">Marie-Sophie Germain</h3> <div class="portrait"><img alt="Marie-Sophie Germain" class="img-responsive cmsContentImg" src="/File.aspx?id=131756" style="max-width: 100%; max-height: 100%;"> <p class="caption formatContent_firstParagraph">Public domain image from Wikipedia</p> </div> <h3 class="showcase-career">Mathematician</h3> <p class="formatContent_firstParagraph">Sophie Germain developed number theory that is used in applied mathematics and the study of elasticity and acoustics.</p> <a href="https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Germain/" class="linkTextBlock">Learn more about her from Univeristy of St. Andrews, Scotland.</a></div> </div>  <div class="brick-item"> <div class="showcase-quick-facts math" id="katherine-johnson"> <h3 class="showcase-name">Katherine Johnson</h3> <div class="portrait"><img alt="Katherine Johnson" class="img-responsive cmsContentImg" src="/File.aspx?id=131611" style="max-width: 100%; max-height: 100%;"> <p class="caption formatContent_firstParagraph">NASA image from Wikipedia</p> </div> <h3 class="showcase-career">Mathematician</h3> <p class="formatContent_firstParagraph">Katherine Johnson, featured in <em>Hidden Figures</em>, did the complex calculations critical for the success of early American space flights.</p> <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/content/katherine-johnson-biography" class="linkTextBlock">Learn more about her from NASA.</a></div> </div>  <div class="brick-item"> <div class="showcase-quick-facts social-sci" id="mary-leakey"> <h3 class="showcase-name">Mary Leakey</h3> <div class="portrait"><img alt="Mary Leakey" class="img-responsive cmsContentImg" src="/File.aspx?id=131600" style="max-width: 100%; max-height: 100%;"> <p class="caption formatContent_firstParagraph">Image courtesy <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mary-Douglas-Leakey" class="linkTextBlock">Britannia</a></p> </div> <h3 class="showcase-career">Anthropologist</h3> <p class="formatContent_firstParagraph">Mary Leakey made several important fossil discoveries of early hominids, including the "laetoli footprints" which date back 3.7 million years.</p> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/07/learning/teaching-with-animated-life-mary-leakey.html" class="linkTextBlock">Learn more about her from The New York Times.</a></div> </div>  <div class="brick-item"> <div class="showcase-quick-facts math" id="dorothy-vaughan"> <h3 class="showcase-name">Dorothy Vaughan</h3> <div class="portrait"><img alt="Dorothy Vaughan" class="img-responsive cmsContentImg" src="/File.aspx?id=131614" style="max-width: 100%; max-height: 100%;"> <p class="caption formatContent_firstParagraph">Image courtesy of Vaughan Family via <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/content/dorothy-vaughan-biography" class="linkTextBlock">NASA</a></p> </div> <h3 class="showcase-career">Mathematician</h3> <p class="formatContent_firstParagraph">Dorothy Vaughan, featured in <em>Hidden Figures</em>, taught herself and others computer programming and became the first African-American supervisor at NASA.</p> <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/people/dorothy-vaughan/" class="linkTextBlock">Learn more about her from NASA.</a></div> </div> </div>  <p><em>The HistoryMakers</em> is the largest collection of oral history testimonies of African Americans. 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