Monthly Archives: May 2013

Maria Goeppert-Mayer

Posted on May 29, 2013 by Rachel Levy

Thank you to Jill S. Tietjen, President and CEO of Technically Speaking, Inc. and regular contributor to Grandma got STEM for this remembrance of Maria Goeppert-Mayer. The San Diego, California newspaper headline announcing Maria Goeppert-Mayer as the first American woman to receive the … Continue reading →

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Kathy Hays

Posted on May 24, 2013 by Rachel Levy

Thanks to Kelly Herbon, who contributed this post about STEM-ma Kathy Hays. My mother, Kathy Hays, is a 64 year-old grandmother of 3 children under 4.  She was a middle school and high school language arts teacher for 29+ years who used … Continue reading →

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Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

Posted on May 22, 2013 by Rachel Levy

This picture of Dorothy Hodgkin is from the Nobel Prize website, which states that she won the prize “for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances”. The following biography is quoted from a Public Broadcasting Service (WGBH) site A … Continue reading →

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Rosalind Elsie Franklin

Posted on May 17, 2013 by Rachel Levy

Thanks to the blogger at Synthetic Environment for a post about impressive female chemists, including Rosalind Elsie Franklin (1920-1958). Here’s an article from The Human Touch of Chemistry about Franklin: A woman scientist from Cambridge University published an article in the … Continue reading →

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Ellen Swallow Richards

Posted on May 15, 2013 by Rachel Levy

Thanks to the blogger at Synthetic Environment for a post about impressive female chemists, including Ellen Swallow Richards (1842-1911).  The Chemical Heritage foundation has an interesting post about Richards, which includes this information: Born Ellen Henrietta Swallow, she was the daughter … Continue reading →

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Sylvia Block Goodman

Posted on May 13, 2013 by Rachel Levy

Thanks to Nina Karp, who submitted this post about her grandmother, Sylvia Block Goodman, b 1917. The picture is marked “BI [Beth Israel] Hospital, Spring 1938, Bacteriology Lab”. It was taken during a 15-month training program for laboratory technicians. After … Continue reading →

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Mary Horner Lyell

Posted on May 10, 2013 by Rachel Levy

Thanks to Emily Lakdawalla, who suggested Mary Horner Lyell (1808-1873). Emily found this article from on Dana Hunter’s Scientific American Blog which included the portrait above of Lady Lyell, after a crayon drawing by George Richmond, R.A. Image from the Life, Letters and … Continue reading →

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Lise Meitner

Posted on May 8, 2013 by Rachel Levy

Thanks to the blogger at Synthetic Environment for a post about impressive female chemists, including Lise Meitner (1878-1968). Here is a biographical sketch from the San Diego Supercomputer Center’s Women in Science Site. In 1945, the Royal Swedish Academy of … Continue reading →

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Grace Hopper

Posted on May 6, 2013 by Rachel Levy

Thank you to Jill S. Tietjen, President and CEO of Technically Speaking, Inc. and regular contributor to Grandma got STEM for this remembrance of Admiral Grace Hopper. The woman whom I credit as the catalyst for all of the work that I … Continue reading →

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Virginia Apgar

Posted on May 3, 2013 by Rachel Levy

Thank you to regular GGSTEM contributor, Jill Tietjen, for this post about Virginia Apgar.  Apgar’s photo is from the Library of Congress. Do you know what your Apgar Score was?  In all likelihood, at one minute and five minutes after … Continue reading →

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