TRUE OR FALSE Women in science

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Question 1/7

Only 60 women in total have been awarded the Nobel Prize between 1901 and 2022 out of about 900 people in total.

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Question 1/7

The Nobel Prize and the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel have been awarded to women 61 times between 1901 and 2022. Only one woman, Marie Curie, has been honoured twice, with the Nobel Prize in Physics 1903 and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1911. This means that 60 women in total have been awarded the Nobel Prize between 1901 and 2022.

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Question 2/7

Emmy Noether is the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Mathematics.

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Question 2/7

The mathematician Emmy Noether, a specialist in abstract algebra and theoretical physics, has never won the Nobel Prize in Mathematics because there is no such prize.

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False

Question 3/7

Marie Curie received two Nobel prizes: one in physics and one in chemistry.

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Question 3/7

Marie Curie was the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize. In 1903, she received the Nobel Prize in Physics. Then in 1911, she received a second Nobel Prize, this time in chemistry. She is the only woman to have received two Nobel prizes.

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True

Question 4/7

The first programmer in history was a woman.

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Question 4/7

Ada Lovelace (1815–1852) is known for having published the first computer algorithm during her work on an ancestor of the computer (Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine). Many historians consider Ada Lovelace to be “the first programmer.”

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True

Question 5/7

Women have historically been excluded from scientific fields and their contributions have been overlooked.

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Question 5/7

Women have faced significant barriers to entry and advancement in many scientific fields throughout history, and their contributions have often been overlooked or undervalued.

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True

Question 6/7

It was illegal for women to study science in some countries until the 20th century.

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Question 6/7

In some countries(Italy, Switzerland, Germany etc) women were banned from studying science, medicine, and other fields until the 20th century.

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Question 7/7

For her discovery of X and Y chromosomes, Nettie Stevens won the Nobel Prize in Medicine.

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Question 7/7

At the beginning of the 20th century, Nettie Stevens discovered that the sex of each individual is determined by chromosomes, named X and Y. However, this scientific advance did not let her win the Nobel Prize in Medicine.

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