Scientist
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Sylvia Olga Fedoruk
1927-2012, Canada![Scale 3](https://phylogame.org/wp-content/themes/phylo/img/num/3.png)
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– Helped develop the first cobalt-60 unit and one of the first medical nuclear scanners.
– Was the Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan, Canada from 1988-1994.
– Her personal coat of arms has pictures of atoms.
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Sally Ride
1950-2012, USA![Scale 4](https://phylogame.org/wp-content/themes/phylo/img/num/4.png)
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– The first American woman in space.
– Also the youngest astronaut, and the earliest known LGBT astronaut.
– Advocated for NASA to focus on problems directly facing humanity.
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Inge Lehmann
1888-1993, Denmark![Scale 2](https://phylogame.org/wp-content/themes/phylo/img/num/2.png)
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– Discovered that the earth has a solid inner core inside by a molten outer core.
– She was the first head of the Department of Seismology at the Geodetical Institute of Denmark.
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Ada Lovelace
1815-1852, England![Scale 3](https://phylogame.org/wp-content/themes/phylo/img/num/3.png)
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– A countess, Lovelace wrote the world’s first computer program for Charles Babbage’s Analytical Machine.
– Was also interested in how individuals and society could use technology collaboratively.
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Ursula Franklin
1921-2016, Germany/Canada![Scale 3](https://phylogame.org/wp-content/themes/phylo/img/num/3.png)
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– A pioneer in archaeometry, which uses modern material sceince in archaeology.
– Her research on the strontium 90 levels in teeth led to the end of ending of atmospheric nuclear weapons testing.
– A fierce advocate of pacifism and feminism, writing extensively on these subjects.
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Barbara McClintock
1902-1992, USA![Scale 3](https://phylogame.org/wp-content/themes/phylo/img/num/3.png)
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– Won the Nobel Prize in 1983 for the discovery of mobile genetic elements.
– It took 20 years for her major discovery to be accepted.