Results for “women in science”

Lise Meitner

Lise Meitner was the Austrian-Swedish physicist who, in 1938, interpreted the first nuclear-fission experiments, unlocking the door to nuclear power and weapons yet was excluded from the 1944 Nobel Prize awarded to her collaborator.

Dorothy Hodgkin

Dorothy Hodgkin was the pioneering X-ray crystallographer who decoded the molecular structures of life-saving biomolecules—most notably penicillin, vitamin B12, and insulin—and became the only British woman to win a Nobel Prize in science (1964).

Barbara McClintock

Barbara McClintock was a pioneering American cytogeneticist who discovered "jumping genes" and revolutionized our understanding of genetic regulation, earning the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Rosalind Franklin's Contributions to X-Ray Crystallography