Bouncy Ball
Kate Biberdorf is a chemist who is breaking stereotypes and blowing stuff up—all in a good pair of heels. She became interested in chemistry during high school, and her mother …
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Water Strider
Maria Goeppert Mayer won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics (only the second woman to do so!) for her discoveries surrounding atomic structure. Born in 1906, Goeppert Mayer was the …
Chain Reaction
Chien-Shiung Wu was an award-winning physicist and the only Chinese person to work on the Manhattan Project. Born in 1912 in a small town near Shanghai, China, Wu’s parents believed …
Flying Dragonfly
Christine Goforth is an entomologist, educator, and science advocate based in Raleigh, North Carolina. She works as the head of citizen science for the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences …
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