Features the names of women who were victims of the Matilda Effect.
Matilda Effect: When breakthroughs or discoveries made by women are over-looked or claimed by men. Named by science historian Margaret Rossiter for suffragist Matilda Jocelyn Gage who first wrote about it.
Dr. Lise Meitner - Otto Hahn was awarded the Nobel Prize after omitting her name from research findings in nuclear fission
Katherine Johnson - mathematician whose calculations sent John Glenn into orbit on Apollo 11
Elizabeth Magie - created the game that was stolen by salesman Charles Darrow and eventually became Monopoly
Fanny Mendelssohn - composed over 460 works, many of which her brother Felix stole and published under his own name
Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu - worked on the Manhattan Project and later experiments to test the Conservation of Parity theory in atomic particles. Two of her colleagues received the Nobel Prize for this work though they just theorized the law and she did the testing to prove it.
Nettie Stevens - discovered XY sex-determination system, however, Thomas Hunt Morgan is generally credited with the discovery
Frieda Robscheit-Robbins - left out of 1934 Nobel Prize won by her team when all other (male) members were included
Esther Lederberg - part of the team that developed a method of transferring bacterial colonies from one Petri dish to another called replica plating (vital to current understanding of antibiotic resistance) but excluded from their 1968 Nobel Prize
Margaret Hamilton - helped build the programming industry and is now forgotten for her contributions
