First!

Gotta say, Grace Hopper. In college I heard her speak, and I got a nanosecond.

@David "Kahomono" Frier (he/his) 🥇 Grace Hopper, wow that must have been cool to meet her

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2nd hopefully..!!

...not a scientist....but for me it's Margaret Atwood...she also does Historical Fiction.....

My hero since way back when I was in grade school: Rachel Carson, the marine biologist who made all of us aware of the beautiful diversity of life in the oceans in The Sea Around Us, which I read over and over. She then went on in 1962 to take on the big chemical companies and to alert the world to the dangers of pesticides such as DDT in Silent Spring. She is credited with starting the environmental movement and raising awareness of the dangers of chemicals in the environment. Because of her work, we have the Environmental Protection Agency.

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@Joyce Donahue That's a great choice - Rachel Carson also featured prominently in the Peanuts comic strip back in the day.

Choosing one favorite female scientist is tough because there are a number of good choices. I think Rita Levi-Montalcini would be my first choice, but I also am a big fan of Sally Ride. Great question!

Well the woman in Science I've most recently read material about would be my choice at the top of my mind Irene Joliot-Curie the older daughter of the famous Madame Marie Curie.

She had a strong and unusual education for woman of her times as her mother wanted her exposed to a variety of the sciences and advanced social skills, with a lot of self-guided instruction.

Irène took a nursing course during college to assist her mother, Marie Curie, in the field as her assistant. She began her work as a nurse radiographer on the battlefields of WW1 alongside her mother, but after a few months she was left to work alone at a radiological facility in Belgium. She taught doctors how to locate shrapnel in bodies using radiology and taught herself how to repair the equipment. She moved throughout facilities and battlegrounds including two bombsites, Furnes and Ypres, and Amiens. She received a military medal for her assistance in X-ray facilities in France and Belgium.

After the war, Irène returned to the Sorbonne in Paris to complete her second baccalaureate degree in mathematics and physics in 1918. Irène then went on to work as her mother's assistant, teaching radiology at the Radium Institute, which had been built by her parents. Her doctoral thesis was concerned with the alpha decay of polonium, the element discovered by her parents (along with radium) and named after Marie's country of birth, Poland. Irène became a Doctor of Science in 1925.

In 1933, Joliot-Curie and her husband were the first to calculate the accurate mass of the neutron.

She was also a Physicist, Jointly with her husband, Joliot-Curie was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935 for their discovery of artificial radioactivity.

She was also one of the first three women to be a member of a French government, becoming undersecretary for Scientific Research under the Popular Front in 1936.

In 1945, she was one of the six commissioners of the new French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) created by de Gaulle and the Provisional Government of the French Republic. Her work and that f scientists under her developed the first French Nuclear Reactor in 1948 to generate electricity.

Her work, like her parents, eventually resulted in her and her husband's deaths (hers in 1956 and he in 1958) due to leukemia and liver disease caused by over exposure to radiation.

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Got to see Roberta Bondar (Canadian astronaut) at a talk. Very cool.

Thinking back on my IT career, I only remember one or two women among the vast herd of men. They were doing secretarial stuff, not anything "serious". IT may have started out as women's work, but it got turned into a men's club by the time I got into it.

I admit to have worked with several woman in it but only a few of them in a technical sence. Sad

I think this is a wonderful opportunity to talk about your favorite female researcher or maybe role model.
I was trying to think of a name you'd recognize when my Vancouver sis came to mind. Of course, she's my favourite scientist! Su Lin is my older sister, who has dedicated her life to scientific research in the field of life science, especially pharmacology, e.g. work to rid certain commonly known drugs of their harmful side effects. Her name is not known but she is one of the millions of essential research assistants who provide the skills, perform the experiments, and document the results outlined by lead scientists. She's assisted in generating many publications too in not only providing key content but also in illustrations. She's always been an artist (she's countless paintings) but in her work, her illustrations of items not easily captured by camera lens are highly prized. Besides managing labs and running experiments, she's also taught - before the days of video instruction, countless medical students and future scientists in the university where she works learned to use the scalpel as well as many other lab instruments from her.

Besides work, her main loves - her family, painting, cooking, and cats.

@Su Ann Lim You really have a cool sis!

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@Christoph S Aw thx!.

Ada Lovelace.

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Diane Fossey was the first female scientist who impressed me, via the film Gorillas in the mist and Sigourney Weaver portraying her, and there's no doubt her work inspired so many others. Along with some work of Dame Jane Goodall (my parents had a book about) I learned two things: primary school knowledge in sciencey subjects was nowhere good enough, and it needed women to teach me that science is done by people - a fact often overlooked by the way the sciences (and results) are presented.

Unfortunately, until recently my worldview hasn't permitted me to relate to Women in that way. Although, I had a celebrity crush on Madeleine Albright back in the day. :)

Katherine Johnson and the other black women that were the human computers to put a man in space. What a wonderful bunch they were. And Katherine was presented the Medal of Freedom by President Obama. Well deserved.

Another lady scientist that I like is the woman that appeared on NGT's "The Universe" a number of times. I wish I could remember her name. She was involved with the Cassini mission.

And finally, though far from least is my mentor and friend, Nancy Montgomery. No, you haven't heard of her. She was my boss/coworker when I got into IT. I eventually got her job because of a new sexist president that felt a woman should not be running the college's Computing and Networking department. He moved her to Maintenance and Security. The last time I talked to her, she finally won her suit for that injustice. Some 10 years later.

women science/math/tech mentors in college were rare, which makes getting into the fields more difficult. the first I had (in fact, the only one) did not get tenure. of course, when she left, inevitably her position was not filled by another woman.
I recall exactly one woman (student) in math dept, two (students) in physics, perhaps 5 or 6 in chemistry. somewhat more in biology.

The head of the math department at my college was a great woman. Roberta Himebrook. Her husband taught Physics and some computer classes. I took some math classes with Roberta, an excellent teacher.

I'm with @UnclePirate (Stan McCann). Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaugh and the rest of the women at NASA because space. And the woman he's thinking about is planetary scientist Carolyn Porco, who is quite impressive. I followed Captain Samantha Cristoforetti's time in space, whose record was recently broken. She is all sorts of accomplishment. From Wikipedia:

She studied in Bolzano and Trento and graduated from the Technical University of Munich with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. She studied at the École nationale supérieure de l'aéronautique et de l'espace in Toulouse, France, and at the Mendeleev Russian University of Chemistry and Technology in Moscow. She graduated in Aeronautics Sciences (University 'Federico II', Naples) at the Accademia Aeronautica in Pozzuoli, becoming one of the first women to be a lieutenant and fighter pilot in the Italian Air Force. She is the second Space Camp alumnus in orbit. As part of her training, she completed the Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot training. She has logged over 500 hours and has flown six types of military aircraft: SF-260, T-37, T-38, MB-339A, MB-339CD and AM-X.

People like that just amaze me. So accomplished.

@Su Ann Lim we do not have covid-19 but we are both not well and coughing, no Dr appt until tues

QOTD: Who’s your favorite female researcher/scientist/role model?

There are MANY, but it's a close tie for me between these two women:

• Marie Curie

  • She is the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two sciences (Physics - 1903, Chemistry - 1911).

and

• Jocelyn Bell Burnell

  • Discoverer of radio pulsars.

My personal heroines are Kathleen Booth (1st assembler), Margaret Hamilton (Apollo Command Module dev team leader) and Grace Hopper (1st compiler).

Yes @Rodrigo Mesa, Carolyn Porco. Impressive researcher.

The first that comes to mind is our BC head doctor, Bonnie Henry. I admire her greatly. Not science, really, but I love watching Rachel Maddow tell stories. She sets them up from the beginning and relates them to the end in an easy to follow way. I'm impressed with some of the female lawmakers, i.e. Katie Porter and AOC.

By the way, is it just my imagination, or are some of the most successful, and peaceful nations on this planet run by women?

Mathematical Physics: conservation <=> symmetry
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Physics: parity non-conservation
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also this:

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/new-postage-stamp-honors-trailblazing-first-lady-physics-rcna283

Like the first responders, I was going to bring up Adm. Grace Hopper. But as she's already been mentioned, I'll add two more:

Dian Fossey
Jane Goodall

It's got to be Angela Duckworth for me. She not only did famous research into what makes successful people successful, she applied it to improving education, which is possibly the highest-leverage way to benefit the world.

Ada Lovelace: computer scientist at a time when computers didn't even exist.

So many excellent mentions!