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Indian-American Scientist Sumita Mitra Wins European Inventor Award 2021
In 2018, Sumita Mitra was inducted to into the US National Inventors Hall of Fame for her breakthrough work in dental filling materials.
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Meet These 7 Phenomenal Women Behind NASA’s Perseverance Rover
These seven women have made the womankind proud with their achievement last night. They spent years of hard work and creativity to reach where they are today.
Clinician-Scientist Gagandeep Kang Resigns From Top Research Institute
Prof. Kang is the first Indian woman to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society, London.
Women Scientists Whose Unsung Work Made The Polio Vaccine Possible
Dr Dorothy Horstmann, epidemiologist, virologist, clinician, and educator, was the first woman appointed as a professor at the Yale School of Medicine. A brilliant researcher, Dr. Isabel Morgan was an unsung hero in the race of finding the polio vaccine. Her team was the first to innoculate monkeys with a killed-virus vaccine.Â
Meet The First Indian Woman Botanist – Janaki Ammal
Janaki Ammal’s work to make sugarcane hybrids was indigenous. In the pages of history, she remains to be known as the woman responsible for making the Indian sugarcane sweet.
Meet Vanitha Muthayya, Project Director Of ISRO Chandrayaan 2 Mission
Vanitha Muthayya is the first and the only woman project director of ISRO, till date. Surprisingly, she was reluctant to take this post.
Unveiled: The Brightest Young Scientific Minds in the World according to WEF
Won’t you like to meet them? The World Economic Forum today recognizes 21 brilliant researchers under the age of 40 at the cutting edge of discovery
Washington Streets Renamed After NASA’s Black Women Mathematicians
NASA finally gave three black women mathematician Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson their due credit by renaming the street outside its Washington headquarters.
Women Scientists Continue To Face Discrimination
Women Scientists’ continued slow-paced growth in numbers has held them back in reaching their full potential. This is because of their minority status with only 14 women scientists to 100 men scientists. Women scientists believe that discrimination and a still-strong glass-ceiling have also contributed as factors to the low number of women in the field. […]
GC Anupama Is Astronomical Society’s First Woman President
GC Anupama has become the first woman president of the Astronomical Society of India. The appointment comes 47 years after the Astronomical Society of India came into existence in 1972. She was elected to the post in the ASI Executive Council elections for triennium 2019-22 held last week, the society’s website states. The recipient of the Govt. of […]
