The first woman I thought of was Sally Ride. She was in the paper recently when she lost her battle with cancer, but I couldn't think of anything that sounded interesting, and I couldn't think of anyone else, so I decided to look up Nobel Prize winners.
"The Nobel Prize and Prize in Economic Sciences have been awarded to women 44 times between 1901 and 2011. Only one woman, Marie Curie, has been honoured twice, with the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics and the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. This means that 43 women in total have been awarded the Nobel Prize between 1901 and 2011." -Nobel Prize.org
I am only interested in the scientists, so I get a list of 15 women:
- Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, 2008, physiology
- Elizabeth H. Blackburn, 2009, physiology
- Linda B. Buck, 2004, physiology
- Gerty Cori, 1947, physiology
- Marie Curie, 1903, physics, 1911, chemistry
- Gertrude B. Elion, 1988, physiology
- Carol W. Greider, 2009, physiology
- Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, 1964, chemistry
- Irène Joliot-Curie, 1935, chemistry
- Rita Levi-Montalcini. 1986 physiology
- Maria Goeppert Mayer, 1963, physics
- Barbara McClintock, 1983, physiology
- Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, 1995, physiology
- Rosalyn Yalow, 1977, physiology
- Ada E. Yonath, 2009, chemistry
Here is a list of synonyms for "builder: architect, artisan, constructor, contractor, craftsperson, erector, fabricator, framer, inventor, maker, manufacturer, mason, originator, producer
Possibilities: Barre's Builders, Blackburn's Builders, Buck's Builders, Cori's Contractors, Curie's Constructors, Elion's Erecto's or Mayer's Makers.
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