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PROFILES OF WOMEN
In Chemistry
In Engineering and Technology
In Geology and Geography
In IT and New Media
In Mathematics
In Physics
In Space Science
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World War II-era Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr invented the spread-spectrum communication technology that is now being used in wireless communication systems such as WiFi.
Florence Nightingale invented the pie chart.
All of the craters on Venus and all of the moons of Jupiter are named after women.
Volvo's 2004 Your Concept Car was designed and built by an all-woman team.
Four women have received the Nobel Prize for their research in physical science; Marie Curie won twice.
The world's first computer programmer was Lady Augusta Ada Lovelace of England in 1852.
Thirteen American women were secretly trained as astronauts in the early 1960s but were denied flight, even though their abilities equaled and often surpassed those of their male colleagues.