"Jane Goodall is a British primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist . . . She founded the Jane Goodall Institute and the Roots & Shoots program, and has revolutionized the way people interact with and think about chimpanzees.
Read an interview with Dr. Goodall here."
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| Jane Goodall is holding Mr. H, which accompanies her during travel. By Jeekc |
"American physicist Shirley Ann Jackson was the first African-American woman to earn a doctorate at MIT . . . Dr. Jackson was Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) from 1995 to 1999. She is currently the president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Read her essay about engineering here."
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| Shirley Ann Jackson, President, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. By Qilai Shen |
"Françoise Barré-Sinoussi is a French virologist who was fundamental in identifying the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as the cause of AIDS. She won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for this discovery . . .
Here is one of her papers on HIV."
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| Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Nobel Prize Laureate for Physiology or Medicine 2008 |
For more stories, go to this link:
https://daily.jstor.org/seven-beautiful-illustrations-of-women-scientists-you-should-know/
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