Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 46. Chapters: A. Elizabeth Adams, Alice Magaw, Anita Borg, Anna Nagurney, Annette Salmeen, Anne Anastasi, Ann Kiessling, Augusta Dejerine-Klumpke, Bernice Ackerman, Bonnie C. Templeton, Cara Santa Maria, Carla J. Shatz, Christine Ladd-Franklin, E. Ruth Anderson, Eleanor F. Helin, Eliza Maria Mosher, Eliz Sanasarian, Ellen Swallow Richards, Evelyn Boyd Granville, Fatimah Jackson, Florence Bascom, Florence R. Sabin, Frances Meehan Latterell, Heather McKillop, Helen W. Atwater, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Ida Henrietta Hyde, Imogene King, Isabella Karle, Jane Colden, Jane Luu, Jane Maienschein, Jane Stafford, Janice E. Clements, Jeanette J. Epps, Jewel Plummer Cobb, Joyce Jacobson Kaufman, Katia Sycara, Leslie B. Vosshall, Linda B. Buck, Liuba Shrira, Louise Freeland Jenkins, M. Christine Zink, Mae Jemison, Maria Mitchell, Maya Paczuski, Mildred Adams Fenton, Misha Mahowald, Paulette Steeves, Pauline Morrow Austin, Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, Ruby Hirose, Ruth Colvin Starrett McGuire, Ruth Ella Moore, Ruth F. Allen, Sossina M. Haile, Susan Gerhart, Susan Owicki, Vera Rubin, Yuko Munakata, Zonia Baber. Excerpt: Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17, 1956) is an American physician and NASA astronaut. She became the first black woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour on September 12, 1992. After her medical education and a brief general practice, Jemison served in the Peace Corps from 1985 to 1987. She resigned from NASA in 1993 to form a company researching the application of technology to daily life. She has appeared on television several times, including as an actress in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. She is a dancer, and holds nine honorary doctorates in science, engineering, letters, and the humanities. Mae Carol Jemison was born in Decatur, Alabama on October 17, 1956, the...