Women Scientists Posters, Prints, & Photographs, “G...-”
notable and famous women scientists for social studies and science classrooms.

Maria Goeppert-Mayer
b. 6-28-1906, Silesia
d. 2-20-1972, San Diego, CA

Maria Goeppert-Mayer, a German born American physicist, was awared the Nobel Prize in Physics with J. Hans D. Jensen in 1963 “for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure”. She is only the second woman to win the Nobel physics prize, the other was Marie Curie.

• Maria Goeppert Mayer: Physicist

Lillian Gilbreth - Engineer
b. 5-24-1878, Oakland, CA
d. 1-2-1972

Poster Text: “Anyone can make a problem complicated. The real achievement is to make it simple.” -Lillian Moller Gilbreth

Lillian Moller Gilbreth was a pioneer in the field of motion study. Together with her husband, Frank, she developed work methods that increased industrial production and helped to establish the industrial engineering profession. A mother of 12, she was one of the first women to combine a career with her home life.

• Heroes of Science & Technology Posters
• Cheaper by the Dozen

Jane Goodall
b. 4-3-1934; London, England

Jane Goodall is a zoologist, primatologist (primates), ethologist (animal behavior), and antropologist (humans) best-known for her study of chimpanzee social and family life in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania.

Goodall, and her mother, suffered from malaria upon their arrival at Gombe.

Jane Goodall quotes ~
• “One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.”
• “Only if we understand can we care. Only if we care will we help. Only if we help shall they be saved.”
• “The greatest danger to our future is apathy.”
• “Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.”
• “I do not want to discuss evolution in such depth, however, only touch on it from my own perspective: from the moment when I stood on the Serengeti plains holding the fossilized bones of ancient creatures in my hands to the moment when, staring into the eyes of a chimpanzee, I saw a thinking, reasoning personality looking back. You may not believe in evolution, and that is all right. How we humans came to be the way we are is far less important than how we should act now to get out of the mess we have made for ourselves. ”