Dr. Kimberly Arcand is one of the world’s preeminent experts in astronomy visualization and has been a pioneer in 3D imaging and extended reality in astrophysics. Arcand began her career in astronomy after being hired for NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in 1998. She presented her TEDx talk entitled “How to Hold a Dead Star in …
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 encouraged her to try different experiments at home. Biberdorf majored in chemistry and German at the University of Michigan, and she received her Ph.D. in …
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 only child of an academically-minded father who encouraged her to attend university. Maria enrolled at the University of Göttingen in 1924, a time when fewer …
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 in education for girls, despite it being an uncommon belief at that time. She went on to study physics at a university in Shanghai, where …
