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
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
Hertha Ayrton
Mary Anning
7. Whose death excluded her from winning the Nobel Prize for her contributions?
Mary A. Blagg
Margaret Mead
Rosalind Frankli
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
Lise Meitner
12. Who discovered 'parity violation' and shook the foundations of physics?
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
Marion Donovan
17. Who invented the brassiere?
Caresse Crosby
Ida Cohen Rosenthal
Sarah Breedlove Walker
18. Who invented the medical tool called 'radio immunoassay'?
Alice Evans
Florence Seibert
Rachel Brown
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
22. Who invented a chemical process to separate precious metals like gold from their ores?
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
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