Women Scientists By Nancy Veglahn

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Women ScientistsBy Nancy Veglahn

• Project by
• Carrie Mahagan
• 6th Period

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• 1859- Alice Eastwood is born
• 1861- Nettie Maria Stevens is born
• 1863- Annie Jump Cannon is born
• 1869- Alice Hamilton is born
• 1891- Edith Quimby is born
• 1892- Eastwood publishes 1st book becomes
  curator of botany at California Academy of
  Sciences
• 1896- Gerty Cori is born
• 1901- Stevens studies in Italy Germany Margaret
  Mead is born

1860 1870 1880 1890
1900
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• 1902 Barbara McClintock is born Hamilton
  investigates typhoid epidemic
• 1905- Stevens receives Ellen Richards Prize for
  paper on gender determination
• 1907- Rachel Carson is born
• 1919 to 1940- Quimby experiments with radiation
  doses and publishes results
• 1921- Rosalyn Yalow is born
• 1922- Cannon discovers a nova
• 1925- Hamilton publishes Industrial Poisons in
  the United States

1910 1920
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• 1928- Mead publishes Coming of Age in Samoa
• 1930- Mildred Dresselhaus is born
• 1931- Cannon wins Draper Medal, National Academy
  of Sciences McClintock publishes 1st paper on
  genetic crossover in corn
• 1932- Cannon wins Ellen Richards Prize
• 1936- Cori discovers Cori-ester
• 1938- Cannon named William Cranch Bond Astronomer

1930
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• 1945- McClintock becomes president of the
  Genetics Society of America
• 1947- Cori wins Nobel Prize with husband Carl and
  another scientist
• 1950- Eastwood named honorary president of the
  7th International Botanical Congress
• 1951- Carson publishes The Sea Around Us, it wins
  National Book Prize
• 1954- Quimby wins Medal of the American Cancer
  Society

1940 1950
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• 1959- Yalow publishes study on insulin and its
  antibody
• 1962-Carson publishes the controversial Silent
  Spring
• 1968- Dresselhaus named full professor at MIT
• 1970- McClintock wins National Medal of Science
• 1977- Yalow wins Nobel Prize for Medicine or
  Physiology

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• 1978- Quimby receives Coolidge Award, American
  Association of Physicists in Medicine
• 1983- McClintock wins Nobel Prize for Medicine or
  Physiology
• 1984- Dresselhaus elected president of the
  American Physical Society

1970 1980
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Signal Words for Sequence/Time Order

• First, Second, Third, Next, Then, Last, After,
  Before, Following, Meanwhile,

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Summary

• Many women scientists have made great
  contributions to the world of science and proved
  that they are no less intelligent or successful
  an men. Women such as Alice Hamilton, Rachel
  Carson, Annie Jump Cannon, and Edith Quimby have
  been great influences in the fields of genetics,
  physiology, and medicine.