Transcript Role Models in the Physical Sciences

Role Models in the Natural
Sciences
Created by:William H. Church,
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry
Neuroscience Program
Trinity College
Hartford CT
in conjunction with the Consortium for High Achievment and Success, Trinity College
Copyright © 2007 William H. Church. All rights reserved
updated Fall 2010
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Science Discipline
Chemical
Sciences
Physics
Biological
Sciences
Neuroscience
CHEMICAL SCIENCES
• Atoms and the Periodic
Table
• Chemical Reactions and
Equations
• Solutions
• Gases and Gas Laws
• History and People of the
Chemical Sciences
• Biochemistry
• Bonding
• Nuclear Chemistry
• Spectroscopy
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Atoms and the Periodic Table
St. Elmo Brady, Ph.D
James A. Harris, Ph.D.
Divalent Oxygen
Nuclear Chemist
John McNeile Hunter
Oxygenated Tungsten and
Thermoionics
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Biochemistry
Lino Gonzalez
Joseph C. Hall, Ph.D.
Protein Chemistry
Male contraceptives;
entrepreneur
John C. Browne, Ph.D.
Severo Ochoa, M.D.
Proteins and Carcinogens
Nobel Prize, Enzymology
Gertrude B. Elion, MSc.
Lloyd Agustus Hall
Purine Pharmacology
Anti-oxidants and Food
Preservatives
James R. Gavin III, Ph.D.
Ida S. Owens, Ph.D.
Insulin
Isozymes, Drug metabolism
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Bonding
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Chemical Reactions and
Equations
Norbert Rillieux
Samuel P. Massie, Jr. Ph.D.
Sugar Refining
Organic Synthesis
Mario J. Molina, Ph.D.
Lloyd Hall, D.Sc.
Nobel Prize winner
Food Sterilization
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Gases and Gas Laws
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History and People in the
Chemical Sciences
James E. Bostic, Jr. Ph.D.
Elvia Niebla, Ph.D.
Soil Scientist
George W. Carver
Chemurgist
Joseph S. Francisco, Ph.D.
President, American Chemical Society
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Nuclear Chemistry
Edwin R. Russell, Ph.D.
Atomic Energy
Maj. Robert H. Lawrence, Ph.D.
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Spectroscopy and Analytical
Analysis
Isiah Warner, Ph.D.
Emmett Chappelle, M.S.
Organized media
Laser-induced fluorescence(LIF)
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, Ph.D.
X-ray Crystallography
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Solutions
• Eliza Lucas Pinckney
Blue Indigo Dye
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BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
• Microbiology
• Environmental and
Ecology
• Genetics
• Oceanography
• Molecular and Cell
Biology
• Developmental
Biology
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Microbiology
John F. Alderete,
Ph.D.Sexually-transmitted
diseases
Dale Brown Emeagwali
Anti-sense methodology
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Genetics
Jill Bargonetti-Chavarria, Ph.D.
P53 gene and Cancer
Francisco Ayala, Ph.D.
Population and Evolution Genetics
Maggie Werner-Washburne, Ph.D.
Genomics
Barbara McClintock, Ph.D.
Cytogenetics
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Molecular and Cell Biology
Manuel Ares, Ph.D.
RNA Structure, Function and
Processing
Kenneth Olden, Ph.D.
Renato Aguilera, Ph.D.
transcriptional regulation of
the Recombination Activating
Genes (RAG)
Sandra Murray, Ph.D.
Cellular processes and Cancer
cyclic AMP and cell-cell
communication
Elma Gonzalez, Ph.D.
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Plant Cell Biology
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Developmental Biology
Manuel Ares, Ph.D.
RNA Structure, Function and
Processing
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Ernest Everett Just, Ph.D.
Cell Surface Activity in Invertebrates
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Environmental and Ecology
Marjorie Harris Carr
Environmentalist, Zoology
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Oceanography
Ellen H.S. Richards, M.Sc.
Founder of Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institute
Carole Baldwin, Ph.D.
Icthiologist
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PHYSICS
• Nuclear Physics
• Spectroscopy
• Astrophysics and
Cosmology
John McNeile Hunter
Oxygenated Tungsten and
Thermoionics
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Astrophysics
• Beth A. Brown, Ph.D.
Astrophysics
• Arthur B. C. Walker, Jr., Ph.D.
Astrophysics
• Neil deGrasse Tyson, Ph.D.
Astrophysics
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Nuclear Physics
• Maria Goeppert-Mayer, Ph.D.
• Rosalyn Yalow, Ph.D.
Medical Application of Radioisotopes
Rodrick Pettigrew, M.D.
Biomedical imaging
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• Fred Begay, Ph.D.
Thermonuclear fusion
• Lise Meitner, Ph.D.
mother of the Atomic Bomb
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Spectroscopy
• Ronald E. McNair, Ph.D.
Lasers
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• Samuel E. Imes, Ph.D.
Near Infra-Red Spectroscopy
• Christine Ladd-Franklin
Color
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NEUROSCIENCE
Jose Del Castillo, Ph.D
Lisa D. Cain, Ph.D
Electrophysiology
Brain injury
Edward Bruce Bynum, Ph.D.
Behavior and Biofeedback
Erich JD. Jarvis, Ph.D.
Molecular Neurobiology and
Animal Behavior
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Database Resources
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Biographies of Notable Women Scientists
The African American Registry
The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences
A Recipe for Invention: Scientist Biographies
We Are Scientists/Mathematicians/Engineers/Physicians
– African Americans
– Hispanics
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