Women Scientists Posters, Prints, & Photographs

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

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.

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
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

Shunning 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.

• more health care practioners posters

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.

• astronomers posters

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

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.

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.

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
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
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
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?)