Scientist
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Veena Rawat
CANADA![](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49705550027_a67c3928b2_o_d.jpg)
3 POINTS
• First female to earn her PhD in electrical engineering at Queen’s University.
• Spent nearly 40 years leading Industry Canada in wireless communications.
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Jocelyn Bell Burnell
CANADA![](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49705550172_9c59bd9c99_o_d.jpg)
5 POINTS
• Discovered the first radio pulsar signals coming from a neutron star, credited as one of the most significant 20th century scientific achievements.
• Advocates for women in the fields of physics and astronomy.
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Jill Tarter
CANADA![](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49705232006_607a47c18a_o_d.jpg)
3 POINTS
• Searched for extraterrestrial intelligence as Director for the SETI Institute.
• Worked on NASA’s High Resolution Microwave Survey.
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Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
CANADA![](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49704699483_514d45a764_o_d.jpg)
4 POINTS
• Discovered the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).
• Findings were a first step towards preventative measures and antiretroviral treatment.
• Defines herself as a scientist-activist.
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Ann Makosinski
CANADA![](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49705550237_9e607e1d08_o_d.jpg)
2 POINTS
• Imagined helping developing countries with energy needs.
• At the age of 15, she Invented the revolutionary Hollow Flashlight, powered by the heat from one’s hand.
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Irene Ayako Uchida
CANADA![](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49705550367_ef3c3661f9_o_d.jpg)
4 POINTS
• Introduced cytogenetics, the study of chromosomes and heredity, to Canada.
• Alerted medical science to a possible connection between radiation and chromosomal abnormalities.