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

Evelyn Reed, née Horwit
b. 10-31-1905; Haledon, NJ
d. 3-22-1979; NYC

Evelyn Reed was the pen name of Evelyn Horwit Andreas Novack, an artist, philosopher, anthropologist and socialist who “sought to educate and inspire women with the facts about the creative and productive role females have played in history.”

Evelyn Reed's book Woman's Evolution, establishes through research that women/mothers were the creators of the social skills necessary to evolve primates to hominids, and that women, as the first artists, linguists, architects, writers and farmers, were the sex to tame fire.

Judith Resnik
b. 4-5-1949; Akron, OH
d. 1-28-1986; Space Shuttle Challenger explosion

Electrical engineer and astronaut Judith Resnik was the second US female astronaut with her first mission aboard the maiden voyage of Discovery. She was one of the seven person crew that died in the launch of the Challenger.

• Judith Resnik at Amazon

Ellen Richards
b. 12-3-1842; Dunstable, MA
d. 3-30-1911

Ellen Richards was a chemist and is consided a founder of the science of ecology.

Poster Text: “The quality of life depends upon the ability of society to teach its members how to live in harmony with their environment – defined first as family, then the community, then the world and its resources.” Ellen S. Richards

Among the first women to formally work as a scientist, Ellen Swallow Richards profoundly impacted people's daily lives. A pioneer in the field of sanitary engineering, she also applied scientific principles to domestic life in creating the field of home economics.

• Ellen Swallow: The Woman Who Founded Ecology
• Women of Science composite poster
• food safety posters
• Heroes of Science & Technology posters
• Places Where Women Made History - National Park Service

Linda Richards
née Malinda Ann Judson Richards
b. 7-27-1841; West Potsdam, NY
d. 3-30-1911

Linda Richards, the first American professionally trained as a nurse, went to England for further training and met Florence Nightingale. On Richards return to the U.S. she established nursing programs nationwide and then in Japan as well. She also creating a medical records system to follow individual hospitalized patients.

Sally Ride
b. 5-26-1951; Encino, CA

Sally Ride, a physicist and NASA astronaut, was the first American woman to enter outerspace in 1983, aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger II.

• To Space and Back, Sally Ride