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Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy – annual award for outstanding contributions to astronomy by a woman within five years of earning a doctorate degree; Peter B. Wagner Memorial Award for Women in Atmospheric Sciences – awarded annually since 1998, based on paper completion, to a woman studying for a Masters or PhD in atmospheric science at a university in the United States [1]
While women have made huge strides in the STEM fields, it is obvious that they are still underrepresented. One of the areas where women are most underrepresented in science is space flight. Out of the 556 people who have traveled to space, only 65 of them were women. This means that only 11% of astronauts have been women. [151]
This is a historical list dealing with women scientists in the 20th century. During this time period, women working in scientific fields were rare. Women at this time faced barriers in higher education and often denied access to scientific institutions; in the Western world, the first-wave feminist movement began to break down many of these ...
This is a timeline of women in science, spanning from ancient history up to the 21st century. While the timeline primarily focuses on women involved with natural sciences such as astronomy, biology, chemistry and physics, it also includes women from the social sciences (e.g. sociology, psychology) and the formal sciences (e.g. mathematics ...
Was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2002 and a Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences in 2003. Received the Adler Planetarium Women in Space Science Award in 2003. [18] Was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine in 2004. [19]
Hayat Sindi is a visiting scholar at Harvard University; [14] [15] as such, she travels often between Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts. [3] Sindi's laboratory work at Harvard earned her a spot with four other scientists in a documentary film supported by the Executive Office of the President of the United States in order to promote science education among young ...
1950: Isabella Abbott became the first Native Hawaiian woman to receive a PhD in any science; hers was in botany. [24] [25] 1950: Esther Lederberg was the first to isolate lambda bacteriophage, a DNA virus, from Escherichia coli K-12. [26]
Having won the Presidential Rank Award for Meritorious Executive in 2017, the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal in 2015, and earning the San Jose Business Journal Top 100 Most Influential Women in Silicon Valley award in 2014, Pendleton's success as an executive leader was well established, but so too was her scientific research career. Her ...