Women in Science

Devido às suas contribuições revolucionárias, desde 2009, na segunda terça-feira de outubro é comemorado o Dia de Ada Lovelace, dando destaque às mulheres na ciência, tecnologia, engenharia e matemática.

The consequences of her discoveries impacted the present, with radiotherapy, x-rays, nuclear energy and communication by radio waves, present in antennas, radars, satellites and cell phones.

In 1977, chemical element 109 of the periodic table was named meitnerium (Mt) in her honor, and since 2000, the European Physical Society has awarded the Lise Meitner Prize to innovators in the field of nuclear physics in Europe.

During her time as technical lead at the agency, she was responsible for calculating the trajectories, launch windows, and emergency return paths of Project Mercury and Project Gemini space travel, including Apollo 11, which resulted in the successful landing of man on the Moon. in 1969.

She dedicated her life as a scientist at a time with few opportunities for women in this field of work. Despite his premature death, his contributions to the studies of biology and medicine still impact today.

Laureate with several important awards, throughout her academic career she has published 377 scientific works and more than 250 articles for laypeople in science, becoming one of the best known Brazilian scientists, both in the scientific environment and the general public.

Today she is dean and researcher of astrophysics at the University of Chicago. In 2021, she became a member of two of the most important science academies in the USA: the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences, which, in this year alone, elected 120 members, 59 of them women.

Both Jennifer and Emmanuelle shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, joining the total of 57 women who received a Nobel Prize, against the total of 873 men already awarded.

Because of their studies and development of a genome editing method, together with researcher Jennifer Doudna, both won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2020, reaching the historic milestone of being the first female duo to receive it.

She contributed to the construction of one of the largest light receivers in the world, used to discover the location of the collision between two neutron stars. Today she works as a professor at Brandeis University, being one of the great names at the forefront of astronomical investigations in the 21st century.

Jaqueline was also part of the team that sequenced the genome of the Zika virus and carried out studies on HIV. She dedicates himself to the investigation of dengue in his post-doctorate.

Currently, she also works in schools, giving lectures and organizing meetings to share her knowledge and encourage more young people to enter the world of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.