The World Need More Scientists

Emmy Noether

Physicist (1882 - 1935)

"My methods are really methods of working and thinking; 
this is why we have crept in everywhere anonymously."

Lise Meitner

Physicist (1878 - 1968)

"Life need not be easy,
provided only it was not empty."

Alice Ball

Chemist (1892 - 1916)

"Men dominated higher education in 1915,
and Alice Ball was admitted against the odds"
Miles Jackson, Univ. of Hawaii Professor and Dean Emeritus

Mary Agnes Chase

Botanist and suffragist (1869-1963)

"Grass made it possible for the human race to abandon
cave life and follow herds."

Katherine Johnson

Physicist and mathematician (1918-2020)

"[The other woman] didn't ask questions
or take the task any further. I asked questions;
I wanted to know why. They got used to me
asking questions and being the only woman there."

Postcards sent by Phillip (the USA). Works by Rachel Ignotofsky.