You have been completing a research project on a famous woman scientist.  Please respond as a group to the following questions:

1. Describe the major scientific contributions of your scientist and discuss the impact that these contributions have had on society.

2. Describe some obstacles that your scientist faced during her lifetime. 

Gertrude went to Hunter College in 1933 and majored in chemistry.  She was later involved in the investigation of purines and purine analogs.  She helped develop two of the first successful drugs for the treatment of Leukemia, Thioguanine, Mercaptopurine, Malaria, and immune disorders.  She also developed azathioprine (imuran), an agent to prevent the rejection of kidney transplants...

 

      Granville’s main area of expertise was mathematics.  She was one of the first two black women to receive a PH.D in mathematics. She also taught at many colleges such as Texas College and California State University. She was also very involved in spaceships and expeditions. Granville helped construct the Apollo spaceship, Vanguard, and Mercury and contributed...

Marie graduated from high school education at age fifteen.  At this point, she was diagnosed with depression.  Because of this, her father sent her to her cousin’s house for a care-free year.  Marie was still determined to go to a university, so her and her sister attended a secret college.  This had to be secret because girls were not allowed to go to universities.  After...

Hannah Hartman
Kristen Grabowski
Celia Pham
Rosalind Elsie Franklin

 Rosalind Franklin, X-ray crystallographer and Molecular biologist, was born in July of 1920 in London, England. Her father was a wealthy banker, he and his wife had 5 children including Rosalind. She grew up on the English Country side in a large home. She did not enjoy girlie activities like playing with dolls, but proffered building...

She became a marine biologist and a zoologist. Her main focus and subject was pesticides and the environment. She dedicated her time and effort to this until her death. She studied ecology and was working to stop pollution. She also wrote a few books but her best work was Silent Spring. Silent Spring focused on helping the environment. 

 

Rachel Carson had many difficult obstacles that...

Jane Goodall “empowers people to make a difference for all living things”(www.janegoodall.org). She founded the Jane Goodall institute to show that animals aren’t just for research projects but they need to be treated with respect. She had enriched the field of primatology. Instead of giving them numbers and labels, she tries to figure out their behavioral lifestyle and emotions. Jane has adopted a...

Some of the major contributions of Gertrude were she invented the first chemptherapy treatment for leukemia called the 6-mercaptopurine. In 1984, Gertrude developed ATZ, which, up until 1991, was the only authorized drug used to treat AIDS. She also created the working first anti-viral medication. Among other treatments she created were lupus, hepatitis, arthritis, and gout. She also encouraged girls...

Marie Curie had many contributions. She received a Nobel Prize in physics in 1903. She also received another Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1911. She received many honorary science, medicine and law degrees and honorary memberships of learned societies throughout the world. Though those were great accomplishments, her most popular contribution is the finding of the element radium.  She had to be...

Since she worked as a housekeeper for her family, her family called her Lina. When she was younger she had smallpox and they scarred her face. She was also diagnosed with a disease called Typhus. Typhus is an infectious disease caused by lice. Because of this terrible disease, she only grew to be 4 feet and 3 inches. Also, Caroline’s father told her that she was ugly and that she would never get married...

 If we were diagnosed with Lukemia we could be cured because of her reasearches.

One of her obstacles was being a woman in a man's world. Rachel Carson was also one of the only women in her scienticfic field. They were both very hardworking and made a difference in the world.

Wow! Thats so interesting! She went to college in the same year as Cassie from Roll of Thunder went to her school (1933), so she probably went through the same situations as Cassie. I bet that was really hard!

Wow! She must be really smart since she had acomlisheded being a scientist AND an author! Not many people have accomplished that!

We thought that your person was interesting and we learned a lot from your post. We are excited to learn more when you do your powerpoint and skit! Rachel Carson seems like a great scientist and a good person towards the environment. It looks like she had a huge inspiration in the EPA. Maybe sometime we will read some of her books.

 

~Kay, Claire A., Paige

I love that Jane puts so much effort into helping the environment and the species that live in it. Also, Jane's parents divorced, and so did our scientists Evelyn Boyd Granville.

Jane Goodall founded an institute which supported chimpanzees. She also had to deal with the divorce of her parents, her own divorce, and the death of her second husband. She also wasn't very self-confident as a child.

Wow! She was very young when she graduated college! Its so interesting that she went to secret girls universtiy! Imagine how risky that coud have been!

WOW! She is a very interesting person. We liked how she was also an author, besides being a scientist. We think she is a very strong women and the obstacles she overcame were very rough and difficult although she still got through them.

She was an amzing person for helping and studying chimps. We never knew the study of chimpanzee's was called primatologist. We also liked how she studied what they made out of grass and sticks. She overcame meany difficult family divorces. She was strong through all this and was truly a cool person to learn about.

Some of her contributions were she helped bulid spaceships, and she was a good role model for black people because she got a PHD.

It must have been hard for her to succeed with others putting her down. Also because she was a woman and because she was black.
She was hardworking.

 

 

I think it is very cool that she got into NASA because it is very hard to get into and also since she was black and a woman that made it even harder for her. I like how she worked on creating the Apollo. She is a great inspiration.

Marie studied radioactivity and was the first to win two nobel prizes. She had a hard time with depression and it must have been hard to go to a secret university. She was another great role model for women.

Woah! She graduated High School at such a young age! She must have been very smart and talented. She is interesting!!!

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1. Marya’s contributions of radioactivity affect the science that the world is based on. It produces energy that helps help do many powerful things today. It’s used to sterilize equipment in the hospital, diagnoses, and treats some diseases. By generating power it ables factories to use their appliances.
 
 2. Marie Curie was born in a time where women were not equal to men so she...

Rachel Carson gave many contributions to the scientific world. During the Depression, she wrote radio script and articles on natural history for The Baltimore Sun.  In 1952, Rachel published her prizewinning study on the ocean,“ The Sea Around Us” which was on the bestseller list for 86 weeks  In 1955 this was followed  by “ The Edge of the Sea.” She also wrote “Help Your Children to...

Caroline's Contributions and Obstacles:
    Her first impact of contribution was the detection of nebulae; she also calculated the positions in the catalogue of nebulae. She was the first person to discover a comet and that made many people aware of science and it made them more educated and informed about comets and their locations.

 

      There were...

She made many contributions to science. She discovered DNA and took photographs of it. Although, it wasn’t so easy. James Watson and Francis Crick stole her spotlight! They took credit for it when really it was Rosalind Franklin. Without her discovery we wouldn’t know about DNA and other genetic information. Without this information, many diseases would be unknown and incurable/treatable.

 

Gertrude B. Elion was a famous chemist, inventor of medicines, and obtained many awards.  She was the first person to discover the leading treatment for leukemia.  She developed a multitude of drugs that later lead to the AIDS drug, AZT.  Gertrude created the main immuno-suppressive agent used for organ transplants, (azathioprine).  She invented the drug pyrimethamine for the disease...

Yes, there were many obstacles that she had to overcome. First, her parents got divorced when she was little. Second, one of her husband died and she got divorced by the other one. Third, when she first started researching chips the chimps did not like her. She did not have a bachelor’s degree so that made to get a P.H.D.

 

Jane Goodall researched Chimpanzees.  During her research Goodall...

Our scientists both lost loved ones. It sounds like Rachel had a goal set to help the environment. Our scientist wasn't set to fight for the environment, but was modivated to find cures. Perhaps if she had her mind set, she could have found a way to cure Rachel Carson's cancer. We thought that your essay was very well written and educated, and learned more then we knew before.

We think that it is very cool that your scientist diagnosed her own disease. That just tells you how smart she is.

 

~The SMOREZ  

We learned a lot about Gertrude B. Elion and can't imagine what your skit will be like!

She seemed to come up with a lot of cures for extremely serious diseases. We liked how she didn't boast about winning her reward. We hope and know that her discoveries will help cure many future cases of those diseases and kidney transplants.

 

~Kristen G, Celia P, Hannah H!

It was interesting that her scientific career was centered on leukemia because our scientist Marie Curie died of that disease.

i think it is interesting that she was a scientist and she wrote many popular books. Also, she was a professor and our scientist, Marie Curie, was also a professor.

Rachel Carson seems really interesting! And we can' t wait to learn more about her and her experiences!

Rachel Carson seems really interesting! And we can' t wait to learn more about her and her experiences!

Rachel Carson seems really interesting! And we can' t wait to learn more about her and her experiences!

It so cool that she was the person who dicsovered DNA.  It is really unfare that Watson and Crick stole her ideas.  She was a great scientist and is very inspiring.  She definately proved that woman can be great scientists.  Her scientific discoveries were very smart and advanced.  They help alot of other scientists today. 

It is really cool that she worked for the EPA because we learned about that in science class. It was also neat how she inspired many women by making books. It's sad that she died from cancer, but she helped many people throughout her lifetime.

Our scientist also died of cancer! Also, our group has an interest in chimpanzes, we think they are very cute and we like what Jane Goodall aspired to do.

I itnhk it's interesting about her being one of the first two black women to receive a PH.D. That is an amazing accomplishment. Also, she taught math, like Mrs. Rhoby!!!

I itnhk it's interesting about her being one of the first two black women to receive a PH.D. That is an amazing accomplishment. Also, she taught math, like Mrs. Rhoby!!!

Evelyn Boyd Granville seems like she has done a lot to math!  And the African American community. 

We think its interesting that, unlike the other scientists, she worked with animals.  We admire that she grew close with, and learned the emotions and expressions of the chimps.  Despite her hardships with marriages and family, she inspires us all with her enthusiasm with the animals.

Wow! That's amazing that they have St. Paul's school in London! Neat!

It is great that she graduated high school at age fifteen.  It is also sad that she suffered from depression.

It is great that she graduated high school at age fifteen.  It is also sad that she suffered from depression.

We feel that she had to go through alot to get her name heard because she was black. It is also very interesting that she delt with Math instead of diseases and stuff like that.

It seems like she did a lot with x-rays.  We can't wait to learn more about her.

Marie Curie fascinated us.  We can't believe she got away with secretly going to a university and taking chemistry lessons.  Her discoveries of radioactivity, in chemistry, and radon therapy earned her a Nobel prize. 

Hey this is MacKenzie, Emily, and Rachel...

 

MacKenzie was wondering how her father died.

Emily concluded that she helped the Great Depression and that she helped people forget about what was going on around them through what they were listening to on the radio.

Rachel wants to know what did she talk about/ do on the radio.

Jane Goodall also experienced death in her family, because her husband died.

 

We think its interesting that she went to France for school.

 

Au Revoir!

Hey guys this is Emily, Rachel, and MacKenzie....

 

Emily wants to say that it was nice that Caroline went against her mother's words to become a housekeeper because she impacted her society.
Rachel was wondering if her mom later excepted that she was a scientist.

MacKenzie wants to know if her dad only educated her because he felt sorry for her.

It is very interesting that she wrote for the baltimore sun. Did she live in Maryland?

 

We also think that it is cool that she worked for the radio!!

 

 

~Meaghan, Michelle, and Maria

It is very interesting that she wrote for the baltimore sun. Did she live in Maryland?

 

We also think that it is cool that she worked for the radio!!

 

 

~Meaghan, Michelle, and Maria

Hey its Rachel, Emily, and MacKenzie...

 

Rachel thought that it was wrong of her parents to say she could not be a scientist because she was a female.

Emily thinks that it was cool how she discovered DNA because it impacts us today as to what we know.

MacKenzie thinks it was mean for James and Francis to steal her spotlight.

Jane Goodall contributions helped us understand the genetic similarities between chimps and human beings; because chimps can contract AIDS, it shows that perhaps we could have received certain illness during evolution. If we know that chimps have AIDS, that could mean that they are suseceptible to other diseases, and if chimps were studied then we could learn about the illness....

Hey its MacKenzie, Rachel, and Emily....

 

MacKenzie thinks it is cool how she became friends with the chimps.

Rachel thought it was funny that the chimps did not like her when they started.

Emily thinks that it was good that the chimps started to like her afterwards because she helped them a lot.

It is such a good thing that she followed her own dreams, even when her mother discouraged her.

~meaghan , Maria, Michelle

 

 

we think your woman is very cool because she is a marine biologist and she writes books!

Did she take in her nieces son?

~SMOREZ

 

Its inspiring how she adopted a monkey to show that they need a home too. She seems like a very good scientist that shows people monkeys are not just projects, or things to test products on, they are real animals and they should be treated like animals. She seems very deticated to her job.

 

Our group was thinking about a monkey named Koko. Koko learned sign language. Is that the mokey that...

Its inspiring how she adopted a monkey to show that they need a home too. She seems like a very good scientist that shows people monkeys are not just projects, or things to test products on, they are real animals and they should be treated like animals. She seems very deticated to her job.

 

Our group was thinking about a monkey named Koko. Koko learned sign language. Is that the mokey that...

She must have been very smart to have been accepted into 2 colleges.

She is a good example of women because she did not have enough money to go to school but she is still a scientist!

~SMOREZ

Rachel Carson seems like a very hard-working person. She seems like was very helpful to the environment and animal protection.

 

We can't believe she had time and the effort to take care of her nephew, do her work, and having breast cancer all at the same time.

 

She is very inspiring to everybody.

She sounds like a very good scientist to do this on. It sounds like she could have been a very successful docter with all the cures she found.

~SMOREZ

She sounds like a very interesting person because we can't wait to hear more abuot her

~SMOREZ

She sounds like a very interesting person because we can't wait to hear more abuot her

~SMOREZ

Marie Curie was a very inspirational figure to the community. Its amazing how she helped people by finding a possible cure for cancer and skin disorders. She took a very big risk working with radium just to help regular people.

 

Marie is a very intelligent physicist.  

 

 

hey, we think that it is unfair that those boys took credit for what she did. We think that it is interesting that her mother would not let her be a sciencetist because she thought it was a mans job.

 

~Meaghan, Maria, Michelle

hey, we think that it is unfair that those boys took credit for what she did. We think that it is interesting that her mother would not let her be a sciencetist because she thought it was a mans job.

 

~Meaghan, Maria, Michelle

Gertrude Elion helps us in our lifes today b/c she found one of the leading treaments for leukemia.

She faced many obsticals in her life, just like Marie Curie. She didn't go through elementary school and she graduated NYU without a reasearch position.

hey, we think that it is unfair that those boys took credit for what she did. We think that it is interesting that her mother would not let her be a sciencetist because she thought it was a mans job.

 

~Meaghan, Maria, Michelle

Gertrude Elion helps us in our lifes today b/c she found one of the leading treaments for leukemia.

She faced many obsticals in her life, just like Marie Curie. She didn't go through elementary school and she graduated NYU without a reasearch position.

 

She discovered DNA and took photographs of it. She had obstacles such as when francis crick and james watson took her spotlight. She found out about DNA but they took credit.

Marie Curie and Rosalind Franklin had many differnt obstacles.

She discovered DNA and took photographs of it. She had obstacles such as when francis crick and james watson took her spotlight. She found out about DNA but they took credit.

Marie Curie and Rosalind Franklin had many differnt obstacles.

We think that it is interesting that she did not have much of an education as a child. If we were in the hospital we would like to have her to treat us.

~michelle, maria, meaghan 

We think that it is interesting that she did not have much of an education as a child. If we were in the hospital we would like to have her to treat us.

~michelle, maria, meaghan 

 

Caroline Herschel was the first person to discover a comet. This made many people aware of science and it made them more educated and informed about comets and their locations.
 
     She was very ugly.She never got married b/c her dad gave up b/c he knew she wouldnt marry and educated her.

Rachel Carson wrote radio script and articles on natural history for The Baltimore Sun, during the Depression.

She had many obstacles such as having deaths in the family like Marie Curie and also being poor.

 

The chimp lady has an amazing impact on our lives. Without her amazing reaserch, flamboyant attitude, and love of chimps, we wouldn't know as much about chimps. She is amazing and we didn't know she is still alive.