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The Real Rocket Girls
Below are some of the incredible real life Rocket Girls who have made enormous contributions to our understanding of science, nature and mathematics.
Rachel Carson
American marine biologist, author, and conservationist vital to our movement to protect the environment
Lise Meitner
Austrian-Swedish physicist who contributed to the discoveries of nuclear fission and the element protactinium.
Rosalind Franklin
English chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose work was central to the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA
Vera Rubin
Astronomer whose high-precision observation provided evidence for the existence of dark matter
Alice Ball
American chemist who developed the "Ball Method", the most effective treatment for leprosy
Sally Ride
An astronaut and physicist notable for being the first American woman in space
Grace Hopper
Trailblazing computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral
Mae C. Jemison
Engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut. Known for being the first black woman to travel into space
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Astrophysicist from Northern Ireland who discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967
Jennifer Doudna
Nobel Prize winning biochemist known for her pioneering work in CRISPR gene editing
Marie Curie
Multiple Nobel Prize winning physicist and chemist who pioneered research into radioactivity
Heddy Lamar
Actress, inventor, and film producer. Her work in signal hopping is the basis for all modern wireless communications
Chien-Shiung Wu
Chinese-American particle and experimental physicist who made significant contributions in nuclear and particle physics.
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Neurobiologist who was awarded a Nobel Prize for the discovery of nerve growth factor
Valentina Tereshkova
Russian Cosmonaut, first woman in space and the record holder for the youngest woman to go to space
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