Image and biography of Marie Curie First Female Nobel Prize Winner WorldwideNow on view at the USC Upstate Library is a poster exhibit celebrating the accomplishments of women in the natural sciences and technology. The exhibit is brought to you by the USC Upstate Center for International Studies (CIS) and the Technische Hochschule (Technical University) in Lübeck, Germany.

The exhibit features profiles of 22 distinguished women, ranging from 17th-century astronomer Maria Cunitz to 20th-century mathematician and programming pioneer Grace Murray Hopper.

Other notable researchers, discoverers, and innovators featured in the exhibit include

  • Karoline Herschel, astronomer and discoverer of eight comets
  • Ellen Swallow Richards, chemist and the co-originator of ecology
  • Lise Meitner, co-discoverer of nuclear fission
  • Marie Curie, chemist and the first recipient of a Nobel Prize for a woman worldwide
  • Cécile Vogt, co-originator of modern brain research
  • Rosalind Elsie Franklin, physicist and DNA researcher
  • Gerty Theresa Cori, doctor and Nobel prize recipient in physiology and medicine
  • Maria Goeppert-Mayer, physicist and recipient of the first Nobel Prize for Physics

The exhibit is on view through March in the library’s 1st floor gallery space, near the Perk Up café. You can view the exhibit whenever the library is open. View the library’s hours here.

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While in the library, you can also view Picturing Women Inventors, a series of eight posters that explores inventions by 19 highly accomplished American women, including astronauts, computer pioneers, businesswomen, athletes, engineers, and students.

Picturing American Women is organized by SITES, the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, in collaboration with the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation and was developed in collaboration with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).