Women - Women's Innovations

Martha Jachowski

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Felicia Jackson

⚛️ Physiology

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⚛️ Physiology

2015, founder, inventor, & CEO of CPRWrap, a disposable wrap to be placed on a body before performing CPR that had instructions printed on it to walk the person through performing CPR
Holds 1 patent & 1 pending for a CPR wrap for pets
Is a trained medical professional with an AAS in Physical Therapy
Created wrap after her 2 year old son stopped breathing, she froze, & forgot how to administer CPR; her husband had to step in, performed CPR, & saved their son's life; this traumatic event caused her to wonder how many other trained professionals might forget their training when faced with a traumatic emergency & resulted in her invention
Wrap comes in 3 sizes (infant, child, & adult), is small, folds up, & is portable

Born: Unknown

Country: USA

Education: Chattanooga State Community College AAS Physical Therapy 2006; University of Tennessee MD Physical Therapy 2013; Launch of Chattanooga Entrepreneurial Academy 2015; Colab Accelerator Program 2016

Fatima Linda Collier Jackson

🔍 Biological Anthropology

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Deborah J. Jackson

⚛️ Aerospace Engineering ⚛️ Physics 💡 Inventor

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Mary Winston Jackson

📊 Mathmatics ⚛️ Aerospace Engineer

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📊 Mathmatics ⚛️ Aerospace Engineer

1958, 1st African-american female engineer to work at NASA
1 of NASA's Hidden Figures
Had to 0btain special permission from the city of Hampton, VA to attend the all-white school to take classes she needed to become an engineer
Worked to influence the hiring & promotion of women in NASA's science, engineering, & math careers
Was a Girl Scout leader for over 30 years
1970s, helped African-American children in her neighborhood community create a miniature wind tunnel for testing airplanes
tutored high school & college students throughout her lifetime

Born: 1921

Country: USA

Education: Hampton University BS Mathematics & Physical Science 1942; University of Virginia-engineering classes

Shirley Ann Jackson

⚛️ Physics

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Davielle Jackson

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Mary Putnam Jacobi

⚕️ Medicine

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Chavonda Jacobs-Young

🔬 Paper Science

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Sana Jafri

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Jenna Jambeck

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Amy Jandrisevits

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Anna Jarvis

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Allene Rosalind Jeanes

🔬 Chemistry

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Louise E. Jefferson

🎨 Cartography 🔍 Illustrator

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Mae Carol Jemison

🔭 Astronautics ⚕️ Medicine

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Nadine Audrey Liscomb Jeppesen

💼 Entrepreneur

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Mary Lou Jepsen

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Carrie Jessup

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Ruane Jeter

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Evelyn Speter Jetter

⚛️ Physics ⚛️ Electrical Engineering

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⚛️ Physics ⚛️ Electrical Engineering

Invented the automotive ignition transistor
Her daughter, Alexis Jetter, believes she died at age 52 of cancer because of her long career exposure to low-level radiation especially while working at the Atomic Energy Commission & Lionel Electronics
1st woman graduate of Cooper Union's night engineering school (1950)
She was the only mother on her block in Scotch Plains, NJ who knew how to use a slide rule & she taught neighborhood children how to use it
While she invented things to improve TVs she hated them
Was an excellent swimmer
She worked on atmospheric/environmental sensing equipment for & with Beatrice Hicks, setting up a workshop in her basement in NJ
Held 1 patent

Born: 1927

Country: USA

Education: Cooper Union BS Electrical Engineering 1950; Rutgers University MS Physics

Deborah Jin

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Nancy Johnson

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Allene Johnson

🔬 Chemistry Educator

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Kristina M. Johnson

⚛️ Electrical Engineering

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Creola Katherine Johnson

📊 Mathematics

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📊 Mathematics

One of NASA's Hidden Figures
She figured out the orbits for space missions
1st student to integrate West Virginia University
Had an IQ of approximately 162
Graduated high school at age 14
She figured out the launch window for Apollo 11
Worked for the space program for 33 years
Graduated college at age 18
Used to play bridge during her lunch breaks at NASA
1st female in her division at NASA to have her name listed as an author of a report
John Glenn reportedly refused to fly his mission until she verified the computers calculations
Sang in the choir of her church
Lived to be 101

Born: 1918

Country: USA

Education: West Virginia State University BS Mathematics & French 1937; West Virginia University-1 semester

Ashanti Montarius Johnson

🔍 Chemical Oceanography 🔬 Geochemistry

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Hazel Johnson

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Tracy L. Johnson

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Sheila Crump Johnson

💼 Business 🤖 Entertainment

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Irene Joliet-Curie

🔬 Chemistry ⚛️ Physics

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🔬 Chemistry ⚛️ Physics

1935, won Nobel Prize in Chemistry with her husband Frederick, the 2nd married couple (after her parents) recipients
She & Frederick took great pains to seal & hide their research to keep it out of the hands of the Nazis
Was active in women's rights groups
One of the 1st 3 female members of the French government
Her mother & several of her scholar friends formed "The Cooperative" to privately home school their children for 2 years
Worked as a nurse radiographer alongside her mother during WWI; taught doctors how to locate shrapnel in bodies using radiography
Contracted TB during WWII
died at age 58 from leukemia likely due to exposure to polonium-210

Born: 1897

Country: France

Education: College Sevigne Baccalaureat 1914; University of Paris-Sorbonne BA 1916 & 1918 Mathematics & Physics, PhD Physics 1925 (research conducted at Institute du Radium)

Georgianna Seegar Jones

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Eldorado Jones

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Elizabeth Jones

🔬 Science Historian

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Amanda Theodosia Jones

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Mary Harris "Mother" Jones

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Martha Jones

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Sinclaire Jones

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Eunique Jones Gibson

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Lynda Marie Jordan

🔬 Biochemistry 🤖 Ordained Minister

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🔬 Biochemistry 🤖 Ordained Minister

Is an ordained minister
3rd African-AMarjoriedmerican female recipient of a PhD from MIT
1st female invited to the MLK Visiting Professor Program at MIT
1st person at Harvard University to complete a Master of Public Health & a Master of Divinity simultaneously
After her parents divorced, she lived with her mother, moved into the projects (public housing), & depended on welfare to survive
Her mother remarried when she was 11 & she had 12 step-siblings, plus 2 natural sisters
Participated in the Upward Bound Program
Was a Ford Fellow at the Pasteur Institute in Paris
1995, was the subject of a 1-hour documentary on discovering Women produced by Nova & WGBH-TV

Born: 1956

Country: USA

Education: North Carolina A&T BS, Chemistry 1978; Clark Atlanta University MS, Biochemistry 1980; MIT PhD Biological Chemistry 1985; Harvard University MPH; M.Divinity 2008