WOMAN SCIENTISTS & INVENTORS

By Dilip M Salwi

A couple of centuries back Women were thought to be useful as housewives only . They have, however, contributed handsomely towards the advancement of science. How many of them do you know about?


1. Which women scientist was the first to be murdered by monks for her heretical beliefs?

    Leelavati

    Trotula of Salerno

    Hypatia of Alexandria

    Maria Agnesi

2. Which women scientist discovered nerve growth factor?

    Rita Levi-Montalcini

    Elizabeth G. Anderson

    Nancy Clark

    Anna Morandi Manzolini

3. Which sisters were the first to become the Fellows of the Royal Society?

    Manton sisters

    Korvin-Krukovsky sisters

    Raisin sisters

    Leakey sisters

4. Of the following women scientists, who was put behind bars for refusing to join the military service?

    Kathleen Lonsdale

    Rita Levi-Montalcini

    Rocelyn Yalow

    Elizabeth Blackwell

5. Of the following scientists, who won the prestigious S.S. Bhatnagar Prize for her contributions to medical science?

    Indira Nath

    Sudha G. Gangal

    Sumati V Bhide

    Shantoo Gurnani

6. Who was the first woman to present a research paper at the Royal Society of London?

    Agnes Arber

    Kathleen Lonsdale

    Hertha Ayrton

    Mary Anning

7. Whose death excluded her from winning the Nobel Prize for her contributions?

    Mary A. Blagg

    Margaret Mead

    Rosalind Frankli

    Elizabeth Blackwell

8. Of the following women astronomers, who discovered a new comet?

    Maria Mitchell

    Annie J. Cannon

    Mary Blagg

    Flammetta Wilson

9. Which women scientist received the first unshared Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology?

    Gerti Cori

    Rosalyn Yalow

    Barbara McClintock

    Marie Curie

10. Who won the Nobel Prize for the development of many drugs?

    Gertrude Elion

    Carrie J. Everson

    Madame Lefebre

    Gerty Cori

11. Who gave the 'Shell theory' of atomic structure and won the Nobel Prize?

    Maria Goeppert Mayer

    Leona Libby

    Marie Curie

    Lise Meitner

12. Who discovered 'parity violation' and shook the foundations of physics?

    Lise Meitner

    Margaret Butler

    Chien-Shiung Wu

    Irene Joliot-Curie

13. Of the following medical scientists, who introduced a novel operation to save 'blue babies' ?

    Helen Taussig

    Virginia Apgar

    Anna Wessel Williams

    Elizabeth McCoy

14. Of the following devices, what did Hypatia of Alexandria - the earliest known woman scientist - invent?

    Hydrometer

    Sextant

    Abacus

    Pendulum clock

15. Who invented 'Liquid paper' the white paint to cover typing mistakes?

    Bette Nesmith Graham

    Lydia E. Pinkham

    Elizabeth Arden

    Helena Rubinstein

16. Who invented disposable diapers?

    Ann Moore

    Sara Josephine Baker

    Virginia Apgar

    Marion Donovan

17. Who invented the brassiere?

    Caresse Crosby

    Ida Cohen Rosenthal

    Elizabeth Arden

    Sarah Breedlove Walker

18. Who invented the medical tool called 'radio immunoassay'?

    Alice Evans

    Florence Seibert

    Rachel Brown

    Rosalyn Yalow

19. Who invented the diatometer to measure the pollutants in fresh water accurately?

    Rachel Carson

    Jane Colden

    Ruth Patrick

    Kate Furbish

20. Who is nicknamed "Lady Edison" for several inventions to her credit?

    Amy Johnson

    Gertrude Rogallo

    Alice Chatham

    Beulah Henry

21. Who invented the tunable laser?

    Mary Spaeth

    Esther Conwell

    Elizabeth Drake

    Hertha Ayrton

22. Who invented a chemical process to separate precious metals like gold from their ores?

    Carrie J. Everson

    Marie Lavoisier

    Julia B. Hal

    Sirvart A. Mellian

23. Who invented 'Flow-matic', the first computer language for business data processing?

    Grace Hopper

    Ada Lovelace

    Both

    None