Katherine Johnson was an American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights.
Category Archives: Scientists
Dorothy Vaughan
Dorothy Vaughan was an American mathematician and human computer who worked for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), and NASA, at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. In 1949, she became acting supervisor of the West Area Computers, the first African-American woman to receive a promotion and supervise a group of staff at the center.
Rachel Carson
Rachel Carson wrote the book Silent Spring, which warned of the dangers of chemical pesticides and launched the contemporary enviromental movement.
Inge Lehmann
Inge Lehmann was a Danish seismologist and geophysicist who is known for her discovery in 1936 of the solid inner core that exists within the molten outer core of the Earth.
Gertrude Bell
Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell was an English archaeologist, explorer, writer, and astute political officer who helped negiotiate the modern state of Iran.
Maria Skłodowska-Curie
Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person to win a Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two scientific fields.
Zonia Baber
Mary Arizona “Zonia” Baber was an American geographer and geologist best known for developing methods for teaching geography.
Anna Botsford Comstock
Anna Botsford Comstock wrote and illustrated of The Handbook of Nature Study and other books, greatly contributing to studies of the natural world.
Hertha Ayrton
Hertha Ayrton was a British engineer, mathematician, physicist and inventor, and suffragette. She is best known for her work on electric arcs and ripple marks in sand and water.
Zsófia Torma
Zsófia Torma was a Hungarian archaeologist, anthropologist and paleontologist.