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SETI Institute Celebrates Women’s History Month

SETI Institute Celebrates Women’s History Month

Women's History Month

March is women’s history month and we have been celebrating. But honestly, there are so many women who have made profound contributions to astronomy, science, space exploration and more that it has been difficult to pick just a few to spotlight. All of us at the SETI Institute stand on the shoulders of these women and we are in awe of what they achieved in spite of the challenges they faced. We honor all women who changed our world and here are just a few:

 

Andrea Ghez
Andrea Ghez, astronomer and Nobel Prize winner
http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~ghez/

 

Caroline Hershel
Caroline Herschel, astronomer
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Herschel_Caroline/

 

Mary Jackson
Mary Jackson, mathematician and engineer
https://www.nasa.gov/content/mary-w-jackson-biography

 

Anandabai Joshi
Anandabai Joshi, physician
https://www.indiatoday.in/education-today/gk-current-affairs/story/anandibai-joshi-all-about-the-first-indian-female-doctor-with-a-degree-in-western-medicine-1654396-2020-03-11

 

Annie Jump Cannon
Annie Jump Cannon, astronomer and Harvard computer
https://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/cannon.html

 

Annette S. Lee
Annette S. Lee, astrophysicist
https://annettelee.com/index.php/bio/

 

Marie Maynard Daly
Marie Maynard Daly, biochemist
https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/african-americans-in-sciences/marie-maynard-daly.html

 

Maryam Mirzakhani
Maryam Mirzakhani, mathematician
https://www.nature.com/articles/549032a

 

Maria Mitchell
Maria Mitchell, astronomer and educator
https://www.mariamitchell.org/about-maria-mitchell

 

Nichelle Nichols
Nichelle Nichols, actor and singer
http://uhura.com/about/

 

Ellen Ochoa
Ellen Ochoa, astronaut and engineer
https://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/about/people/orgs/bios/ochoa.html

 

Ana Roque de Duprey
Ana Roqué de Duprey, botanist and suffragist
https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/ana-roque-de-duprey

 

Carolyn Shoemaker
Carolyn Shoemaker, astronomer
https://astrogeology.usgs.gov/people/carolyn-shoemaker

 

Jill Tarter
Jill Tarter, astronomer and co-founder of the SETI Institute
https://www.seti.org/our-scientists/jill-tarter

 

Valentina Tereshkova
Valentina Tereshkova, cosmonaut and engineer
https://airandspace.si.edu/people/historical-figure/valentina-tereshkova

 

Liu Yang
Liu Yang, pilot and taikonaut
https://cpcchina.chinadaily.com.cn/2012-12/03/content_15981597.htm

 

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