Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Nobel Prize Awarded Women

I'm trying to think of names to suggest to the girls for our robotics team. Most of the robotics teams have rather silly names, I think. Since ours is an all-girl team, and one of the great barriers for girls interested in science, technology, engineering and math is the lack of positive role models, I thought it might be interesting to name our team after a famous female scientist.

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:
  1. Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, 2008, physiology
  2. Elizabeth H. Blackburn, 2009, physiology
  3. Linda B. Buck, 2004, physiology
  4. Gerty Cori, 1947, physiology
  5. Marie Curie, 1903, physics, 1911, chemistry
  6. Gertrude B. Elion, 1988, physiology
  7. Carol W. Greider, 2009, physiology
  8. Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, 1964, chemistry
  9. Irène Joliot-Curie, 1935, chemistry
  10. Rita Levi-Montalcini. 1986 physiology
  11. Maria Goeppert Mayer, 1963, physics
  12. Barbara McClintock, 1983, physiology
  13. Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, 1995, physiology
  14. Rosalyn Yalow, 1977, physiology
  15. 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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