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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.



Anna Atkins
Anna Atkins

Anna Adkins
née Children
b. 3-16-1799; England
d. 6-9-1871; Tivoli Gardens, Paris

Anna Atkins, a botanist and early photographer, used plants to make contact prints, or photograms, for the first book illustrated with photographs. Atkins used the cynotype process that gives a cyan-blue print, familiar as a blueprint.

Toysmith Solar Print Kit
Toysmith Solar
Print Kit




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.


Mrs. Annie Jump Cannon, Historic Print
Annie Jump Cannon,
Historic Print

Annie Jump Cannon
b. 12-11-1863; Dover, Delaware
d. 4-13-1941; Cambridge, MA

Astronomer Annie Jump Cannon cataloging work was instrumental in the development of contemporary stellar classification based on their temperatures.

The mnemonic device “Oh, Be A Fine Girl – Kiss Me!” is a mnemonic device for remembering Cannon's “arbitrary” division of stars into the spectral classes O, B, A, F, G, K, M.

Star Maps: History, Artistry, and Cartography


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.

• Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin in 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.

• more health care practioners posters


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.

astronomers posters


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.

• Mae Jemison in Women of Science composite poster
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


Anthropologist Dr. Margaret Mead Studying a Decorated Tchambul Skull, Photographic Print
Margaret Mead
Studying a Decorated
Tchambul Skull,
Photographic Print

Margaret Mead
b. 12-16-1901; Pennsylvania
d. 11-15-1978; NYC

Anthropologist Margaret Mead taught at Columbia University and Fordham University, as well as mentoring numerous students.

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”

Margaret Mead 1977 Earth Day Speech


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 Mitchell, Professor of Astronomy, Vassar College, Giclee Print
Maria Mitchell,
Professor of Astronomy,
Vassar College,
Giclee Print

Maria Mitchell
b. 8-1-1818; Nantucket, MA
d. 6-28-1889; Lynn, MA

Maria Mitchell, who became the first woman member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1848 and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1850, first gained international attention for discovering a comet (Comet 1847 VI or C/1847 T1) in the fall of 1847 and winning a prize offered by King Frederich VI of Denmark.

Mitchell later worked at the U.S. Nautical Almanac Office and in 1865 became professor of astronomy at Vassar College, the first person (male or female) appointed to the faculty; she was also named as Director of the Vassar College Observatory. When Mitchell learned that despite her tenure, reputation and experience, her salary was less than many younger male professors, she insisted on a salary increase, and got it.

FYI - Mitchell, who was a distant cousin of Benjamin Franklin, also travelled to Europe with Nathaniel Hawthorne and his family.

• Maria Mitchell in Women of Science composite poster
Maria Mitchell: A Life in Journals and Letters


Maria Montessori, portrait by Frank Szasz

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

• more Maria Montessori posters with 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


Florence R. Sabin, Historic Print
Florence R. Sabin,
Historic Print

Florence Sabin
b. 11-9-1871; Central City, CO
d. 10-3-1953

Florence Rena Sabin, a medical scientist, was the first woman to hold a full professorship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the first woman elected to the National Academy of Sciences, and the first woman to head a department at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. She came out of retirement to pursued a second career as a public health activist in Colorado.

• Florence Sabin in Women of Science composite poster
Probing the Unknown: The Story of Dr. Florence Sabin


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.


Scientist Dr. Maria Telkes, Dir. of Research to Synthesize Chemicals Used in Polaris Missiles, Photographic Print
Dr. Maria Telkes,
Photographic Print

Maria Telkes
b. 12-12-1900; Hungary
d. 12-2-1995

Maria Telkes, known her work in solar energy, created the first thermoelectric power generator in 1947 and the first thermoelectric refrigerator in 1953, using the principles of semiconductor thermoelectricity.

• Maria Telkes in Women of Science composite poster
Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women


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?)


Dr. Chien Shiung Wu, Professor of Physics at Columbia Univ. Photographic Poster Print
Dr. Chien Shiung Wu, Professor of Physics at Columbia Univ.
Photographic Poster Print

Chien-Shiung Wu
b. 5-29-1912; Shanghai, China
d. 2-16-1997; NYC

Physicist Chien-Shiung Wu, while at Columbia University, worked on the process for enriching uranium into U-235 fissile metal for the Manhattan Project, and performed very early experiments that contradicted the hypothetical “Law of Conservation of Parity”. Her honorific nicknames included the “First Lady of Physics”, the “Chinese Marie Curie”, and “Madame Wu”.

• Chien-Shiung Wu in Women of Science composite poster
Notable Asian-Americans posters
Chien-Shiung Wu: Pioneering Physicist and Atomic Researcher


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