Mary discovered the first fossilized Proconsul skull, which is an extinct ape now believed to be an ancestor of humans.
Cecilia was the first woman to head a department at Harvard!
After answering an advertisement in the Stanford University newspaper, Ride was selected to join the space program in 1978.
Elizabeth was the first woman in the United States to receive a medical degree.
Marie is most famous for her research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the only woman to win in two fields (physics and chemistry), and the only person to win in multiple sciences!
In 1983, Barbara received the Nobel Prize in Medicine. She is the only woman to receive an unshared Nobel Prize in Medicine.
Dorothy Hodgkin and colleagues discovered the structure of penicillin. It was for this discovery that she received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for in 1964.
Gertrude developed many new drugs during her research that led to the development of the AIDS drug, AZT.
Lise was inspired by her teacher, physicist Ludwig Boltzmann, and went on to study physics and become the second woman to receive a doctoral degree in physics at the University of Vienna in 1905.
Chien is known as the “First Lady of Physics”!
While studying at Washington University, Rita Levi-Montalcini did her most important work: isolating the nerve growth factor (NGF)! For this discovery she received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1986.
Get to know our Cooper Educator Quail (aka Ryan Biggs), how he got his name, what he did before he joined us at the Cooper Center, what he counts among his hobbies, and how he sees the role of the Cooper Center in the community as a multi-generational bonding experience.