Five women scientists

When I grow up I want to be a scientist. Throughout history women scientists have not been properly recognized. Here are five women scientists who have made important discoveries.

Mary Anning
1799-1847

Mary Anning was the first woman fossil hunter. She lived in Lyme Regis on the Dorset coast. She is most famous for discovering an almost complete skeleton of an Ichthyosaurus, an extinct type of marine reptile.  The Ichthyosaurus is still on display in the Natural History Museum in London. She is my favourite woman scientist.

Marie Curie
1867-1934

Marie Curie discovered what caused radioactivity. She was born in Poland but lived her life in France.  She was also the first woman to win the Nobel Prize and the first person to win 2 Nobel prizes.

Lise Meitner
1878-1968

Lise Meitner was the co-discoverer of nuclear fission, a way of splitting the nucleus of an atom and making energy, although she never got the credit for it. She was born in Austria but had to escape in 1938 from the Nazis. Her colleague Otto Hahn won a Nobel Prize for their work but she never did.

Rosalind Franklin
1920-1958

Rosalind Franklin worked with Francis Crick and James Watson to discover the structure of DNA. She did the X-rays that showed the structure of DNA. She never got the credit for doing so. Francis Crick and James Watson won the Nobel Prize for their work but she did not.

Jocelyn Bell Brunell
1943-

Jocelyn Bell Burnell is an English astronomer and physicist. She helped  discover radio pulsars, which are a type of star, although two co-discoverers got the credit by wining the Nobel Prize.