The Science of Women

In 1892 in Boston, Ellen Swallow Richards gave a lecture calling for the "christening of a new science." This new science included the study of "consumer nutrition" which later became Home Economics and environmental education which later became Ecology.

== Astronomy ==
Many U.S. women made significant discoveries in early Astronomy. Annie Jump Cannon's work in 1901 led to a reclassification of stars and Henrietta Swan Leavitt's study of variable stars in 1908 led to Leavitt's Law; which changed the way we forever looked at the universe. 

== Physics == 
American Physicists, Leona Woods Marshall and Katharine Way worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II.  

== Nobel Prize ==
Gerti Cori was a biochemist and the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in science.

THESE WOMEN WERE TRAILBLAZERS

She Blinded Me With Science (Thomas Dolby cover) by The Fabric