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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. 

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Rachel Carson

American marine biologist, author, and conservationist vital to our movement to protect the environment

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Lise Meitner

Austrian-Swedish physicist who contributed to the discoveries of nuclear fission and the element protactinium.

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Rosalind Franklin

English chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose work was central to the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA

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Vera Rubin

Astronomer whose high-precision observation provided evidence for the existence of dark matter

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Alice Ball

American chemist who developed the "Ball Method", the most effective treatment for leprosy

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Sally Ride

An astronaut and physicist notable for being the first American woman in space

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Grace Hopper

Trailblazing computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral

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Mae C. Jemison

Engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut. Known for being the first black woman to travel into space

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Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Astrophysicist from Northern Ireland who discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967

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Jennifer Doudna

Nobel Prize winning biochemist known for her pioneering work in CRISPR gene editing

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Marie Curie

Multiple Nobel Prize winning physicist and chemist who pioneered research into radioactivity

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Heddy Lamar

Actress, inventor, and film producer. Her work in signal hopping is the basis for all modern wireless communications

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Chien-Shiung Wu

Chinese-American particle and experimental physicist who made significant contributions in nuclear and particle physics.

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Rita Levi-Montalcini

Neurobiologist who was awarded a Nobel Prize for the discovery of nerve growth factor

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Valentina Tereshkova

Russian Cosmonaut, first woman in space and the record holder for the youngest woman to go to space

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