By Maggie Villiger | Behind some of the most fascinating scientific discoveries and innovations are women whose names might not be familiar but whose stories are worth knowing: -
Marie Tharp revolutionized oceanography by mapping the seafloor, uncovering a rift valley that helped prove plate tectonic theory.
- Margaret Morse Nice transformed ornithology with her empathetic study of song sparrows, pioneering methods still used today.
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Tu Youyou led groundbreaking research in Maoist China, extracting artemisinin from traditional medicine, which became a lifesaving malaria treatment.
- Emmy Noether, a mathematical genius praised by Einstein, overcame systemic barriers to make foundational contributions to theoretical physics.
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Chien-Shiung Wu, an atomic physicist, played a critical role in the Manhattan Project and experimentally disproved a long-standing nuclear theory … though her male colleagues received the Nobel Prize for the discovery.
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