Lise Meitner
Nuclear Physicist
Co-discovered the radioactive element protactinium
Brilliant is an understatement to describe Lise Meitner, who grew up in Vienna. She is a prime example of women being snubbed despite their spectacular achievements. She should have shared the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for nuclear fission, but the honor went to her collaborator, Otto Hahn. She was nominated 19 times for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and 30 times for the Nobel Prize in Physics but was neve ...
Nancy Grace Roman
American Astronomer
Mother of the Hubble Space Telescope
Nancy Grace Roman gathered classmates and friends when she was 11 years old in Reno, Nevada and formed an astronomy club ...
Christa McAuliffe
First Teacher in Space
Space Shuttle Challenger
STS-51-L
Disaster: January 28, 1986
On her NASA application for schoolteachers wishing to be included in the Space Shuttle Chal ...
