Statistics for Famous Female Scientists

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Discovered chemical elements such as polonium	Marie Curie	89%
Studied and cared for chimpanzees in Tanzania	Jane Goodall	72%
Became the first American woman to fly in space	Sally Ride	61%
Developed what is often considered the first computer program	Ada Lovelace	56%
Helped to discover the structure of DNA	Rosalind Franklin	56%
Developed radio guidance system during WW2; she was also an actress	Hedy Lamarr	44%
Exposed the harmful effects of pesticides like DDT	Rachel Carson	33%
Calculated orbits for space flights at NASA	Katherine Johnson	28%
Became the first woman to fly in space; from the Soviet Union	Valentina Tereshkova	28%
Helped to discover nuclear fission and the element protactinium	Lise Meitner	17%
Discovered fossils in England, contributing to paleontology	Mary Anning	17%
Studied meiosis and gene transposition in maize plants	Barbara McClintock	11%
Became the first female doctor in the US	Elizabeth Blackwell	11%
Worked as experimental physicist and contributed to Manhattan Project	Chien-Shiung Wu	6%
Co-discovered the role of CRISPR Cas9 in gene editing	Emmanuelle Charpentier	6%
Co-discovered the role of CRISPR Cas9 in gene editing	Jennifer Doudna	6%