These women have made discoveries that literally turned the scientific world.
Not only men known in science.
1. Hedy Lamarr
Film actress Hedy Lamarr is still lauded as “the most beautiful woman in the world”, but its main achievement is the “Secret communication system”. This technology was used by the military for remote control of torpedoes during the Second world war. “Secret communication system” is still actively used in cellular and wireless networks.
2. Ada Lovelace
The Countess of Lovelace called the world’s first programmer. In 1843, Ada wrote a program for the solution of specific mathematical problems under the car, which was created later. She also predicted that computers will be able not only to calculate algebraic formulas, but also to create music.
3. Grace Hopper
A century after Ada Lovelace, rear Admiral grace Hopper programmed on one of the first computers of the time — mark 1. She invented the first compiler — English computer translator. In addition, grandma COBOL has developed a system of identifying a computer error after a short circuit the mark II has ruined her hours of work.
4. Stephanie Of Kwolek
From bullet-proof vests to fiber optic cables — all of this you can thank a talented chemist Stephanie of Kwolek. In fact, she invented the fabric Kevlar, which is five times stronger than steel and has excellent fire resistant properties.
5. Annie Easley
When in 1955 Annie started working at NASA, she was not even higher education. But the lack of a diploma didn’t prevent her to create a program to measure solar winds, optimization of power conversion and control of the rocket boosters.
6. Marie Sklodowska-Curie
Even in those far from the feminism of the times, the work of a talented chemist and physicist Marie Curie was highly appreciated by the scientific community, and its innovative projects with radioactivity, won two Nobel prizes in 1903 and 1911. She was the first woman to be awarded the famous “Nobel prize”.
7. Maria Telkes
She was not enough solar furnaces and wind air conditioning, so Maria Telkes created a system of solar battery, which is still actively used. In 1940 Maria helped build first house with solar heating, where a comfortable temperature is maintained even in the harsh cold winters of Massachusetts.
8. Dorothy Crowfoot-Hodgkin
Dorothy Crowfoot-Hodgkin, known as a founder of protein crystallography. She with the help of x-rays carried out the analysis of the structure of penicillin, insulin and vitamin B12. In 1964, for these studies Dorothy received a well-deserved Nobel prize in chemistry.
9. Katherine Blodgett
Miss Blodgett became the first woman in Cambridge he received the degree in physics. And in 1938, Catherine invented anti-reflective glass. This is her invention is still widely used in cameras, glasses, telescopes, photographic lenses and other optical equipment. If you wear glasses, then you have something to thank Katherine Blodgett.
10. IDA Henrietta Hyde
Talented physiologist IDA Hyde invented the microelectrode, which is able to stimulate a single cell of tissue. This discovery turned the world of neurophysiology. In 1902 she became the first woman member of the American physiological society.
11. Virginia Apgar
Every woman is familiar to this name. After all, on a scale of Apgar health is still assessed as newborns. Neonatologists believe that in the 20th century to improve the health of mothers and babies Virginia Apgar did more than anyone else.
