1. Women Scientists By Nancy Veglahn Project by Carrie Mahagan 6 th Period

2. 1859- Alice Eastwood is born 1861- Nettie Maria Stevens is born 1863- Annie Jump Cannon is born 1869- Alice Hamilton is born 1891- Edith Quimby is born 1892- Eastwood publishes 1st book & becomes curator of botany at California Academy of Sciences 1896- Gerty Cori is born 1901- Stevens studies in Italy & Germany Margaret Mead is born 1860 1870 1880 1890 1900

3. 1902 Barbara McClintock is born: Hamilton investigates typhoid epidemic 1905- Stevens receives Ellen Richards Prize for paper on gender determination 1907- Rachel Carson is born 1919 to 1940- Quimby experiments with radiation doses and publishes results 1921- Rosalyn Yalow is born 1922- Cannon discovers a nova 1925- Hamilton publishes Industrial Poisons in the United States 1910 1920

4. 1928- Mead publishes Coming of Age in Samoa 1930- Mildred Dresselhaus is born 1931- Cannon wins Draper Medal, National Academy of Sciences; McClintock publishes 1st paper on genetic crossover in corn 1932- Cannon wins Ellen Richards Prize 1936- Cori discovers Cori-ester 1938- Cannon named William Cranch Bond Astronomer 1930

5. 1945- McClintock becomes president of the Genetics Society of America 1947- Cori wins Nobel Prize with husband Carl and another scientist 1950- Eastwood named honorary president of the 7th International Botanical Congress 1951- Carson publishes The Sea Around Us, it wins National Book Prize 1954- Quimby wins Medal of the American Cancer Society 1940 1950

6. 1959- Yalow publishes study on insulin and its antibody 1962-Carson publishes the controversial Silent Spring 1968- Dresselhaus named full professor at MIT 1970- McClintock wins National Medal of Science 1977- Yalow wins Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology

7. 1978- Quimby receives Coolidge Award, American Association of Physicists in Medicine 1983- McClintock wins Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology 1984- Dresselhaus elected president of the American Physical Society 1970 1980

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9. Summary Many women scientists have made great contributions to the world of science and proved that they are no less intelligent or successful an men. Women such as Alice Hamilton, Rachel Carson, Annie Jump Cannon, and Edith Quimby have been great influences in the fields of genetics, physiology, and medicine.