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Selection of educational posters of notable and famous women scientists for social studies and science classrooms, home schoolers, and inspirational and motivation art for the workspace.



Women of Science Poster
Women of Science Composite Poster

Women of Science -
Annie Jump Cannon; Astronomer
Rachel Carson; Biologist
Marie Curie; Physicist
M. Goeppert-Mayer; Physicist
Jane Goodall; Primatologist
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin; Scientist
Grace Murray Hopper; Computer pioneer, Mathematician
Hypatia of Alexandria; Mathematician, Scientist
Mae Jemison; Astronaut, Physician, Engineer
Barbara McClintock; Scientist
Margaret Mead; Anthropologist,
Maria Mitchell; Astronomer
Ellen Ochoa; Astronaut, Scientist
Ellen Swallow Richards; Chemical Engineer
Florence Sabin; Physician Researcher
Helen Brooke Taussig; Cardiologist
Maria Telkes; Chemist, Solar Engineer
Chien-Shiung Wu; Physicist

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Women Scientists

Sophie Blanchard
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Annie Jump Cannon
Rachel Carson
Emilie du Chatelet-Lomont
Marie Curie
Gertrude Elion
Maria Goeppert-Mayer
Sophie Germain
Lillian Gilbreth
Jane Goodall
Caroline Hershel
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
Grace Hopper
Hypatia of Alexandria
Shirley Jackson
Mae Jemison
Mary Leakey
Marie-Anne Pierette Lavoisier
Ada, Countess of Lovelace
Barbara McClintock
Margaret Mead
Anna Maria Sibylla Merian
Maria Mitchell
Maria Montessori
Florence Nightingale
Ellen Ochoa
Anne Pratt
Ellen Richards
Sally Ride
Florence Sabin
Mary Fairfax Somerville
Helen Brooke Taussig
Maria Telkes
Margaret Thatcher
Chien-Shiung Wu


Women of Science Poster Series

Women of Science Poster Series -
Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Rachel Carson, Marie Curie, Jane Goodall, Grace Hopper, Shirley Jackson, Mary Leakey, and Barbara McClintock

biology posters
marine/aquatic posters
ecology posters


Heroes of Science & Technology Poster Series

Heroes of Science & Technology Poster Series

Marie Curie, Gertrude Elion, Lillian Gilbreth, Grace Hopper, Ellen Richards,
(& Archimedes, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Michael Faraday, Benjamin Franklin, Galileo, Isaac Newton, Louis Pasteur)


Mme Blanchard Killed, Giclee Print
Mme. Blanchard Killed,
Giclee Print

Sophie Blanchard
b. 3-25-1778; France
d. 7-6-1819; Tivoli Gardens, Paris

Sophie Blanchard, the widow of French ballooning pioneer Jean-Pierre Blanchard, was the first woman to pilot her own balloon and work as a professional balloonist. She performed all around Europe, even crossing the Alps; she lost consciousness several times on high altitude flights and conducted experiements with parachutes. Mme. Blanchard was also the first woman to be killed in an aviation accident when a fireworks display caused her balloon to fail.


Madame Émilie du Chatelet-Lomont, Giclee Print
Madame Emilie du Chatelet-Lomont,
Giclee Print

Madame Émilie du Chatelet-Lomont
b. 12-17-1706; France
d. 9-10-1749; complications of childbirth

Madame Émilie du Chatelet-Lomont was a mathematician, physicist and author. Einstein's famous equation for the energy of matter E=mc2 fits neatly with a principle recognised by Madame de Chatelet 150 years before Einstein in her book Institutions de Physique (“Lessons in Physics”), which she had prepared for her 13 year old son as a "Cliff Notes" study of the newest ideas of the time. She was also great friends with Voltaire, (with her husband's blessing) and translated Newton's Principia into French.


Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, Photographic Print
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
Photographic Print

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
b. 5-12-1910, Cairo; Egypt
d. 7-29-1994

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, is regarded as one of the foremost scientists in the field of X-Ray crystallography studies of natural molecules.

Women in Science composite poster
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, Nobel


Gertrude Elion, Biochemist, Heroes of Science & Technology Poster
Gertrude Elion,
Biochemist,
Heroes of Science & Technology Poster

Gertrude Elion,
Biochemist
b. 1-23-1918; NYC
d. 2-21-1999, Chapel Hill, NC

Poster Text: “What greater joy can you have than to know what an impact your work has had on people’s lives? The thrill of seeing people get well who otherwise might have died cannot be described in words.” -Gertrude Elion

S
hunning traditional trial-and-error methods for finding effective treatments, biochemist Gertrude Elion took an innovative "pathways" approach that relied on determining how cells use chemicals to reproduce and grow. Her research led to the development of drugs to combat several serious medical conditions, including leukemia, malaria, viral herpes, and AIDS.

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Medal Depicting Sophie Germain, Giclee Print
Medal Depicting Sophie Germain, Giclee Print

Sophie Germain
b. 4-2-1776; France
d. 6-27-1831; breast cancer

Sophie Germain was a French mathematician who became friends with Carl Friedrich Gauss.


Caroline Herschel (1750-1848), 1829, Giclee Print
Caroline Herschel, 1829, Giclee Print

Caroline Herschel
b. 3-16-1750; Germany
d. 1-9-1848

Caroline Herschel, the sister and full time assistant of William Herschel, lived most of her 98 years in England. She was the first woman to discover a comet; the recognition earned her an annual salary from King George III.

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Hypatia, Philosopher of Alexandria, Giclee Print
Hypatia of Alexandria,
Giclee Print

Hypatia of Alexandria
b. c. 360 AD; Alexandria
d. c. 415; Alexandria- mob violence

Hypatia, a Neo-Platonic Greek philosopher, mathematician, astronomer, astrologist and teacher, may have been murdered by a mob because she was a pagan. Her death occured in the conflicts that erupted during the time Christianity was imposed as the state religion.

Hypatia in Women of Science composite poster
Hypatia of Alexandria


Astronaut Mae Jemison, First African American Woman in Space as Sts 47 Endeavour Mission Specialist, Photographic Print
Mae Jemison, astronaut,
Photographic Print

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.

Find Where The Wind Goes: Moments From My Life


Marie-Anne Pierette Lavoisier, drawing of Experiment on the Decomposition of Water, Giclee Print
Marie-Anne Pierette Lavoisier, drawing of Experiment on the Decomposition of Water, Giclee Print


Marie-Anne Pierette Lavoisier

Marie-Anne Pierette Lavoisier, artist and scientist, collaborated with her husband Antoine Lavoisier, considered ‘father of modern chemistry’ until his beheading in the French Revolution (for being a noble and tax collector, not a chemist). She continued a salon for scientists after the Terror.


Portrait of Augusta Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace, Giclee Print
Portrait of Augusta Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace,
Giclee Print

Augusta Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace
b. 12-10-1815; England
d. 11-27-1852

Ada Lovelace was the only legitimate daughter of Lord Byron. She received early training as a mathematician and is considered to have written the first computer program in her correspondence with Charles Babbage about his early mechanical general-purpose computer, the analytical engine.

Ada, Countess of Lovelace


Maria Gertrude Mayer, American Physicist, Photographic Print
Maria Goeppert-Mayer, American Physicist, Photographic Print

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 in 1963 for the nuclear shell model of the atomic nucleus. She is only the second woman to win the Nobel physics prize, the other was Marie Curie.

Maria Goeppert Mayer: Physicist
M. Goeppert-Mayer; Physicist
Women of Science composite posters


Anna Maria Sibylla Merian Swiss Painter Engraver and Naturalist, Giclee Print
Anna Maria Sibylla Merian Swiss Painter, Engraver, and Naturalist,
Giclee Print

Anna Maria Sibylla Merian
b. 4-2-1647; Frankfurt, Germany
d. 1-13-1717; Amsterdam

Anna Maria Sibylla Merian, from a family of artists, studied insects and plants in great detail and then illustrated them with paints and engravings. She spent several years c. 1700, in Suriname, the Dutch colony in South America.

women artists posters


Maria Montessori, portrait by Ernst Ulmer

Maria Montessori - Global PathMarker Fine Art Print
“Within the child lies
the fate of the future.”
b. 8-31-1870, Italy
d. 5-6-1952; The Netherlands

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Famous People in the Montessori movement posters


Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) Giclee Print
Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)
Giclee Print

Florence Nightingale
b. 5-12-1820; Florence, Italy
d. 8-13-1910

Florence Nightingale loved mathematics and her study of mathematics helped her collect data and organize a record keeping system to calculate the mortality rate of soldiers in the hospital.


Miss Anne Pratt, the Famous Botanist, Giclee Print
Miss Anne Pratt,
Giclee Print

Anne Pratt
b. 12-5-1806; England
d. 1893

Anne Pratt, a self taught botanist, was one of the best known botanical illustrators of the Victorian age.


Heroes of Science & Technology - Ellen Richards Wall Poster
Ellen Richards,
Heroes of Science & Technology, Poster

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


Sally Ride, astronaut who became first Amer. woman in space aboard Space Shuttle Challenger II, Photographic Print
Sally Ride, astronaut,
Photographic Print

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


Mary Fairfax Somerville Photo Print
Mary Fairfax Somerville
Photo Print

Mary Fairfax Somerville
b. 12-26-1780; Scotland
d. 11-28-1872; Naples, Italy

At a time when women's participation in science was not encouraged, Mary Somerville studied mathematics and astronomy. She translated Laplace's work, invented variables from algebraic math, was the second woman to receive recognition as a scientist in the United Kingdom after Caroline Herschel.


Margaret Thatcher Photo Print
Margaret Thatcher
Photo Print

Margaret Thatcher
b. 10-13-1925; Granthan, Lincolnshire

Margaret Thatcher was trained as a chemist and worked on the team that developed soft serve ice cream - (isn't life just too poetic?)


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