#womeninscience
Women scientists maybe you thought were men
Maud Menten (Michaelis–Menten equation)
Yvonne Barr (Epstein-Barr virus)
Marilyn Kozak (Kozak consensus sequence)
Tsuneko Okazaki (Okazaki fragments - with her husband Reiji)
Helen Quinn (Peccei–Quinn theory)
Phyllis Nicolson (Crank–Nicolson method)
Hilde Mangold (Spemann-Mangold organizer)
Laura P. Bautz (Bautz–Morgan classification )
Katharine B. Blodgett (Langmuir–Blodgett (LB) film)
Martha Chase (Hershey–Chase experiments)
@AVerger Maud Menten, a legend! My students are always surprised when I introduce the MM equation with a slide with the photos of Maud Menten and Leonor Michaelis.
@Ioannis_N @AVerger Maud Menten is who I want to be when I grow up!
@Ioannis_N oh yes, I get that a lot around me : "what?!!! Menten was a woman!!!"