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Notable Women in Science -

Shirley Jackson
Mae Jemison

Sophia Jex-Blake

Sofia Kovalevskaya



Women of Science - Shirley Jackson Poster
Shirley Jackson
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Shirley Jackson
b. 8-5-1946; Washington, DC

Physicist Shirley Jackson, the first African-American to earn a Ph.D from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, worked at Fermilab, CERN, and Bell Laboratories. She has taught at Stanford, Aspen Center for Physics, and Rutgers, currently serving as President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Jackson is also the first woman and first African-American to serve as Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.


Astronaut Mae Jemison, First African American Woman in Space as Sts 47 Endeavour Mission Specialist, Photographic Print
Mae Jemison, astronaut,
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Mae Jemison
b. 10-17-1956; Decatur, AL

Mae Jemison, the first African American woman in space, served as a STS-47 Endeavour Mission Specialist. Jemison is also a medical doctor, and served in the Peace Corps.

• Mae Jemison in Women of Science composite poster
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Dr. Sophia Jex-Blake

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Sophia Jex-Blake
b. 1-21-1840; Hastings, England
d. 1-7-1912

Physician, teacher and feminist Sophia Jex-Blake, one of the first female doctors in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, campaigned for medical education for women and was involved in founding a medical school for women in London and one in Edinburgh, where she also started a women's hospital.

Sophia Jex-Blake: A Woman Pioneer in Nineteenth Century Medical Reform


Sophia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya: Her Life and Work
Sophia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya: Her Life and Work

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Sofia Kovalevskaya
b. 1-15-1850; Moscow, Russia
d. 2-10-1891; breast cancer

Sofia Kovalevskaya, the first major Russian female mathematician, was also the first woman appointed to a full professorship in Northern Europe (Stockholm).

The lunar crater Kovalevskaya is named in her honor.


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