The Science Herstory
RIVIA EST
IDENTIFY THE FOLLOWING WOMEN SCIENTISTS:
1. This U.S. Civil War surgeon was a spy for the North and subsequently
awarded the medal of honor.
2. This Roman physician was so beautiful, she had to lecture medical students
from behind a screen.
3. This physicist discovered the cause and cure of the loud, popping noise
in early movie projectors.
4. This feminist social worker in Europe (specializing in trafficking in
women) was Freud's first patient and helped to invent "the talking
therapy."
5. This French philosophe liked to cross-dress when she visited the coffee
bars in Paris to discuss physics.
6. This 14th c.Italian physician was immortalized by Boccaccio in one of his Decameron tales.
7. This famous children's author developed an accurate theory of fungi which
scientists wrongly rejected.
8. This medieval gynecologist was immortalized by Chaucer in The Canterbury
Tales.
9. This abolitionist from Lynn, Massachussetts, invented a million dollar
curall for PMS.
10. Known as "the sybil of the Rhine," this 12th c. abbess inspired
the first women's movement in Europe.
11. This mathematician was murdered by a mob of religious fanatics and skinned
with oyster shells.
12. This chemist discovered nuclear fission 5 years before anybody else
only to be ignored for 60 years.
13. This physicist produced a daughter and a grandaughter who were also
physicists.