Women in Math and Science Quiz
Created by Margaret Zierdt, NWHP Board Member

1. Who photographed wildlife in Africa and worked for preservation of animals, especially in the Congo, in her books on conservation?

2. Who spurred the rise of molecular biology using mathematical techniques and published 192 monographs while lecturing at Smith College for 30 years?

3. Who was the first African-American woman to earn a degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery in 1890?

4. Who collected more than 12,200 sets of plants in the western world after attending the Chicago Exposition in 1893, and improved disease-resistant grasses? An avid suffragist, she was arrested and force-fed for her advocacy.

5. What chemist developed an extract from the Awa Root which relieved leprosy symptoms when injected and which was widely used until sulfa drugs were invented in the 1940’s?

6. Who was first woman of color to go into space on the shuttle Endeavor in 1992?

7. She came to the U.S. when she was a teenager to study science and stayed to become “the world’s foremost female experimental physicist.” Her most famous experiment disproved what had been thought to be a fundamental scientific law.