10 Greatest Female Inventors Who Transformed The World

2. Annie Easley (April 23, 1933 – June 25, 2011)

Annie Easley was an African-American computer scientist, mathematician, and rocket scientist. She was a chief member of the squad which developed software for the Centaur rocket stage and one of the primary African-Americans in her field.

Her 34-year career integrated developing and executing computer code that analyzed alternative power technologies, propped up the Centaur high-energy upper rocket stage, unraveled solar, wind and energy projects, acknowledged energy conversion systems and alternative systems to solve energy problems.

3. Marie Curie (7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934)

Marie Curie was a Polish and French physicist and chemist who conducted radical research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and just woman to win twice, the only person to win twice in multiple sciences,

She was also the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris. Her achievements included theory of radioactivity, techniques for isolating radioactive isotopes, and the discovery of two elements, polonium and radium. Under her observation, the world's first studies were conducted into the cure of neoplasm, by means of radioactive isotopes. For the period of World War I, she recognized the first military field radiological centres.

She named the original chemical element that she discovered – polonium, which she isolated in 1898 – after her native country.

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