Women in STEMMaking History

Ball | Ball Method treated leprosy in the early 1900s

Conwell | Conwell-Weisskopf theory explains electron travel through semiconductors

Franklin | Discovered the helical structure of DNA

Isler | First African American woman to receive her Ph.D. in Astrophysics from Yale University

King | Discovered BRCA 1 gene and that humans share 99% of DNA with chimpanzees

Lederberg | Pioneer scientist in the field of bacterial genetics

Ochoa | First Latina astronaut in space

Rubins | First person to sequence DNA in space

Sabeti | Created bioinformatic statistical method to explain the effects of genetics on disease

Stevens | One of the first researchers to discover sex is determined by chromosomes

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