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exam test 6-b women
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Science
6th Grade
05/31/2006

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Jane Goodall
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loved animals, studied chimps, dedicated lift to studying them, met Louis leakey
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Marian Donovan
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disposable diper, the boater, no safty pins
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Antonia Novella
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first woman to be sergon general, concerned about underage drinking, and immunizations for children
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Grace Hopper
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Navy, helped discover univac, invented computer compiler, Mother of the computer
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Elizabeth Blackwell
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First woman doctor, First woman to graduate from medical college
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Sally Ride
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Great tennis player, stanford, First american woman to fly in space, wrote childrens books about women in space
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Madam Curie
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Uranium gave off radiation, awarded nobel prize in physics and chemestry, x-rays could locate broken bones, died of leukemia
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Clara Barton
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voulenteer during civil war, started red cross in the US, founded the american red cross, "angel of the Battlefield"
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Maria Agnesi
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famous mathmetician, wrote a math text book for schools to use Analytical Institutions
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Gertrue Belle Elion
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Leukemia medicine, World's Health Organization
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Sylvia Earle
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greatest woman marine biologist, National woman's hall of fame
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Eugenie Clark
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The shark lady, Ichthyologist
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Florence nightengale
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lady with the lamp
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Margret Meade
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studied different cultures, famous anthropologist
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caroline Hercheo
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famous singer and mathmatician, discovered the first comet
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Chien-Shiung Wu
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Radiation, Nobel prize in physics
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Florance Sabin
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studty of the body, tuberculosis
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cornelia clapp
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dedicated to the study of insects, zoologist and marine biologist
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Dixie Lee Ray
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governor of Washington state and first woman to be head of the atomic emergency commision
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Mary leakey
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Famous archiologist, illustrated the ananomy of the human body
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Joy Adamson
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movie "born free" animal rights activist
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Ellen Richards
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founded the science of Home Economics
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Rachel Carson
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mother of the enviroment movement
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Alice Hamilton
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campaigned for a safer work enviroment, protested against child labor laws
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Sister Elizabeth kenny
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worked on a treatment and vaccine for children with polio
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Sarah Josephine Baker
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First director of the New york bureau of child hygiene
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Maria Mitchell
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Discovery of seeing a comet using a telescope from earth. (1847) The comet was named after her, Comet mitchell
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