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54 Contribution of Women in Science

Women play an important role in a lot of spheres in the contemporary society. They
make great contribution to the development and improvement of life in a lot of
spheres. Similarly, women occupy different position in the field of Science and

Technology.
Name these famous women scientists by their given descriptions.

1 2 3

She was a French scientist. She She is a trail blazing modern An American scientist who won
discovered artificial scientist who studies dark stars the prestigious Nobel Prize in
radioactivity. in the universe, something that 1963 in Physiology and
has never been observed Medicine.
4 directly by a human.
6
5

She has several nicknames
including the ‘Chinese Marie She was a molecular biologist
Curie’ and the ‘First Lady of She was the very first American who made pioneering
female to become a professional observation of the protein
Physics’. She is known for her
astronomer. She discovered a TGF–beta.
work on the Manhattan Project
comet in 1847 that was aptly
and her help with finding the named “Miss Mitchell’s Comet”. Clue Corner
process for separating uranium
into U-238 and U-235. 7 a) Anita B Roberts
b) Barbara McClintock
c) Maria Mitchell
d) Katherine Freese
She got the Nobel Prize in e) Irene Joliot-Curie
Medicine in 1986 for her
discovery of the nerve growth f) Chien-Shiung Wu
factor. g) Rita Levi-Montalcini

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