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Groundbreaking Women in Science History: Multiple Choice
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- 01Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, a pioneer in computer science, is credited with inventing the first one of these, which translates programming code into machine language.
- 02Marie Curie is the only person to have won the Nobel Prize in two different scientific fields. What were those fields?
- 03Rosalind Franklin's "Photograph 51" was a crucial piece of evidence in determining the double helix structure of what molecule?
- 04While a postgraduate student in 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell co-discovered the first of what type of rapidly rotating neutron star?
- 05For her work on maize genetics, Barbara McClintock won a Nobel Prize for discovering what mobile genetic elements, also known as "jumping genes"?
- 06Astronomer Vera Rubin's observations of galaxy rotation curves provided some of the first and most robust evidence for the existence of what?
- 07The "Wu experiment" conducted by Chien-Shiung Wu provided conclusive evidence against which long-held principle of elementary particle physics?
- 08Rachel Carson's 1962 book, which documented the environmental harm caused by pesticides, is credited with launching the modern environmental movement. What is its title?
- 09Dorothy Hodgkin won the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for determining the structure of which complex biomolecule, essential for treating pernicious anemia?
- 10NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson's calculations were critical for the success of which historic 1962 orbital mission for Project Mercury?
- 11Often considered the first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace wrote an algorithm intended for which of Charles Babbage's machines?
- 12Physicist Lise Meitner, along with Otto Hahn, provided the first theoretical explanation for which nuclear process?