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Unit-V
Science &
24 Technology
Women Scientists
Many women, over the years, have made immense contributions to science and have
also paved the path for others to follow.
Read the clues and write the names of women scientists. You may use the Help
Box.
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She pioneered the GIFT She discovered two She is an ISRO Scientist
technique, resulting in new chemical elements : known as “India’s Rocket
the birth of India’s first Radium and Polonium. Woman”.
GIFT baby in 1988.
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She is the first African- She is well-known for her She was the world’s first
American female astronaut research on poisonous computer programmer.
and the first black woman fish in seas and shark
to travel into space. behaviour.
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Indira Hinduja, Eugenie Clark, Mae Carol Jemison,
Ada Lovelace, Ritu Karidhal, Marie Curie
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