around two thousand six hundred b.c.e. she practiced medicine and trained more than one hundred midwives. an inscription on a babylonian tablet from one thousand two hundred b.c.e. suggests that the world s first chemist was to put. in addition to creating purr. fumes she developed an app or a this for distilling liquids modern versions of her invention are still in use today. in around the year four hundred hypatia of alexandria was a mathematician and the first woman to give university lectures in philosophy and astronomy she was killed by a mob of christian fanatics. her murder was recorded in the history books but her scientific achievements were not over the centuries women made many more contributions to science. in seven hundred eighty six german born astronomer
pursue a career in research. really sorry. not to be afraid science is fascinating for every child with a boy or girl that was the message at the heart of the un s international day of women and girls in science this year which took place on february eleventh. its goal is to substantially raise the number of women active in research in a range of disciplines. scientists also took to instagram to talk about their experiences the channel women doing science introduced a different female research every week in an effort to banish stereotypes killen ashit bishop for example is a molecular biologist at the university of miami in the us. and the lab have worked focuses on the genetic factors that play a role in the. breast cancer and in her free time she volunteers as
the first x. ray picture of the d.n.a. molecule vital for identifying its structure. since the introduction of the nobel prize is one hundred eighteen years ago only three percent of the awards for science have gone to women. and only one has gone to a german woman christiane on this line fall hard with the prize in physiology or medicine for her research on the genetics of fruit flies. most recently twenty eight teams are counted as donna strickland become the first woman in fifty five years to secure the nobel prize in physics for her pioneering work on pulse lasers because. many female scientists are sharing their stories under the hash tag women in science day they talking about their work and telling others why they chose to
a mentor for young women interested in careers in science technology engineering and mathematics. not a limb from thailand is the searing a doctorate in paleoclimatology. research focuses on the andes and the impacts of climate change in the south american mountain range. where could help us better understand archaeological discover he s. not he is also an artist and she wants to use her art to make science accessible to a wider public. part of the of being is the neuro scientists who also conducts research into respiratory illnesses like asthma she is passionate about the sciences and has set up a nonprofit to help promote them powerful women changing the face of research.
a string physicist liza might know was crucially involved in the discovery of nuclear fusion but was not honored with a nobel prize. the same is true of british chemistry rosalind franklin who produced the first x. ray picture of the d.n.a. molecule vital for identifying its structure. since the introduction of the nobel prize is one hundred eighteen years ago only three percent of the awards for science have gone to women. and only one has gone to a german woman christiane in this line fall hard with a prize in physiology or medicine for her research. on the genetics of fruit flies . most recently twenty eight teams are counted as donna strickland become the first woman in fifty five years to secure the nobel prize in physics for her pioneering work on pulse lasers.