3 of Today's Greatest Female Scientists
Channel: Everything Science
Date: 05/08/2020

3 of Today's Most Influential Women in Science

If you ever opened up a science book in school you probably noticed two trends; the people are usually old and their usual men. So today we thought we’d talk about three of today’s most influential women in science.

We'll be talking about three women, from Jennifer Doudna making great strides with CRISPR and genetic engineering to Sara Seager who's spent her life searching for extraterrestrial life and the planets they inhabit to Marrisa Mayer who helped build Google and Yahoo from the ground up.

Jennifer Doudna helped develop CRISPR, the genetic-engineering method that allows mankind to precisely and exactly edit the human genome, potentially unlocking new cures to untold thousands of diseases such as sickle cell anemia, cystic fibrosis, Huntington's disease, and HIV. Even more than that, CRISPR technology can be used to edit the genomes of crops to produce more food or be more drought resistant. 

By the time women were being trained as university scientists, the solar system had been pretty well-mapped. Moving past the celestial bodies, Sara Seager, looked beyond the sun’s orbit into the vast, uncharted cosmos. During her time working with the Kepler Space Telescope, she discovered 715 planets earning her the nickname ‘the astronomical Indiana jones’ among her NASA colleges. She’s been heavily awarded for developing fundamental techniques for understanding, analyzing,  and finding the atmospheres of these extrasolar planets.

 Marissa Mayer has spent her life on the cutting edge of computer science. In 1999 after graduating from Stanford, Mayer received 14 job offers ranging from a teaching job at Carnegie Mellon to a consulting job at McKinsey & company. Between the 14 offers, she decided to join a relatively small company as the 20th employee. That company was Google. She started her decade long career with Google leading a small team of engineers developing and designing Google's search system (otherwise known as the #1 thing Google is known for).

These 3 women all had major impacts on their scientific disciplines and are still out there doing amazing things. But who will lead the next generation of scientific and engineering women? Only time will tell.

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Video Table of Contents
0:16-2:40 - Jennifer Doudna
2:40- 4:03 - Sara Seager
4:03-5:15 - Marrisa Mayer


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