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WOMEN IN
It’s Women’s Month, and to celebrate, we look at women in the world who have
Amazing astronaut
NAME: Valentina Tereshkova
FROM: Moscow
FIELD: Astronomy
FAMOUS FOR: The first woman to go into
space. In 1963, she spent almost three
days in space (70 hours), and orbited
Earth 48 times in her space capsule,
known as Vostok 6. She received nine
awards, including the Russian Federation
State Prize and Order of Honour.Mary Anning was only
11 years old when
she discovered her
first fossil. Her
brother dismissed it
as a crocodile, but it
was an aquatic
dinosaur called an
ichthyosaurus.Dinosaur digger
NAME: Mary Anning
FROM: United Kingdom
FIELD: Palaeontology
FAMOUS FOR: One of the greatest fossil
finders of her era. She was one of the first
people to collect and correctly identify the
fossils of Jurassic life (ichthyosaurs,
plesiosaurs, and pterosaurs). She
collected these fossils in winter months
when landslides exposed them, before they
were washed away by the sea. Mary Anning
is known as one of the 10 most influential
British women in science.Medical marvel
NAME: Tu Youyou
FROM: China
FIELD: Pharmacologist
FAMOUS FOR: Tu Youyou won a Nobel
Prize for medicine for discovering
artemisinin, a treatment for malaria. Did
you know that Tu Youyou chose to study
medicine because she had contracted TB
and wanted to find a cure for TB and
other diseases? There are still many
diseases without a cure. If there was a
disease you could find a cure for, what
would it be?STEM stands for science, technology,
engineering and mathematics. These subjects
can help you become a scientist and discover
things, create things, find cures for diseases
and help people who are sick. Did you know
that you can discover or create something, and
have it named after you – how cool is that?
Caroline Herschel, for example, was the first
German astronomer to discover a comet and
it was named after her – Comet 35P/
Herschel–Rigollet.