Know About These Women Scientists?

SHOILI PAL

1. How many women have 7. Jane Goodall is the got the Nobel Prize till world’s leading Knowledge date? expert on which

a) 24 animal? b) 3 4 a) Crabs c) 44 b) Chimpanzees d) 54 c) Storks d) Ants

2. In what branch of science did Nobel Laureate Barbara McClintock work? a) Astrophysics b) Genetics 8. Who is considered to be Test Your Test c) Inorganic Chemistry d) Neurology the world’s first computer programmer? 3. Caroline a) George Stibitz Herschel b) Grace Hopper was the c) Charles Babbage first woman d) Augusta Ada King to find which heavenly object? 9. Who developed the first a) A planet compiler for a computer b) A satellite programming language, c) A galaxy instrumental for d) A comet developing COBOL? a) Grace Hopper b) Charles Babbage c) Augusta Ada King d) George Stibitz 4. Who was the first woman in space? a) Kathryn D. Sullivan 10. Ada Yonath is known for her b) Svetlana Savitskaya work on which of the c) Sally Ride following? d) Valentina Tereshkova a) Ribosomes b) Telescopes c) Semiconductors 5. Who was the first civilian d) Animal Conservation in space? a) Judith Resnik b) Valentina Tereshkova c) Yuri Gagarin 11.Which of the d) Neil Armstrong following children’s authors was also an expert on fungi? 6. Who was the first woman a) Beatrix Potter to be granted a patent by b) J.K. Rowling the USPTA? c) Holly Black a) Ellen Ochoa d) Enid Blyton b) Grace Hopper c) Mary Kies d) Sarah Boone

SCIENCE REPORTER, JANUARY 2012 24 Point Counterpoint 17. Who was the first woman member of the 12. Which of the following American Academy of Arts and Sciences? women was the first a) Nancy Cartwright b) Maria Mitchell living scientist to have c) Grace Hopper d) Patricia Spear an asteroid named after her? a) Caroline Herschel b) Maria Goeppert Mayer c) Marie Curie 18. Who invented the d) Chien Shiung Wu Windshield Wiper for cars? a) Edith Flanigen b) Ruth Handler 13. Who holds the record for most comets c) Mary Anderson discovered by an individual? d) Josephine a) Margaret Geller b) Carolyn Shoemaker Cochrane c) Henrietta Leavitt d) Caroline Herschel

14. Who discovered Radium and Polonium? 19. Who invented a) Rutherford b) Mendeleev Kevlar, c) Irene Joliot-Curie d) Marie Curie which is used to make bullet-proof 15. Whose book ‘Silent Spring’ is considered by vests? many to have given birth to the modern a) Patricia E. environmentalist movement? Bath b) Stephanie Kwolek c) Josephine Cochrane d) Mary Kies

20. Which of these phenomena did physicist Lise Meitner and her partner Otto Hahn discover? a) Beta radiation b) Gamma radiation c) Nuclear fusion d) Nuclear fission a) Rachel Carson b) Anne LaBastille c) Margaret Murie d) Nancy Newhall

21. Who is the oldest living Nobel Laureate? 16. Watson and Crick a) Rita Levi-Montalcini b) Elinor Ostrom are credited for c) Doris Lessing d) Carol W. Greider discovering DNA. Who was the woman whose role is considered to be equally Answers: important? 1. c 2. b 3. d 4. d 5. b 6. c 7. b 8. d a) Jean Hanson 9. a 10. a 11. a 12. d 13. b 14. d 15. a 16. c b) Elizabeth 17. b 18. c 19. b 20. d 21. a Blackhall c) Rosalind Franklin d) Gerty Cori Ms Shoili Pal is a graduate in Physics from the Miranda College, University of Delhi. Address: CF-333 Saltlake, Kolkata-700064; Email: [email protected]

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