FIRSTS IN SCIENCE HERSTORY
Crossword Puzzle
Across Clues
*1. Evelyn Boyd calculated orbits in the Mercury space program; she
was the first
African-American to get a PhD in _______.
*4. The first woman to orbit the earth in the Space Shuttle.
*8. The first African-American woman astronaut: _______ Jamison.
9. a small child
10. a stammering sound
12. Examples: Abby Road and Penny Lane (abbr.)
*15. Maria Mitchell was the first American woman to discover a _________.
*18. Amelia Earhart was the first American woman to cross the Atlantic in
a ________.
*20. Hypatia was the first woman astronomer murdered in ancient ________(place).
22. French word "le"
25. chemical symbol for element Einsteinium
26. ______ or nothing (phrase)
28. facial: _____ pack
*30. Chemist and pacifist Kathleen Lonsdale refused to participate in fire-watching
duties; she was the first nobelist who served time in _________.
*31. Mary Whortley Montagu was the first woman to promote variolation in
the _____paper.
Down Clues
*1. First woman to win two Nobel prizes: ____(initial) _______(last
name)
2. Trade Mark (abbr)
3. always on stage
5. Clara Bow, the ____ girl
6. a cake is _____ when the toothpick comes out clean.
7. director's Spielberg's brainchild
*11. Dorothea Exrleben was the first woman to get this university degree
in 1754.
12. approximately 2000 pounds
*14. Mary Walker was the first physician to win the medal of honor for her
work as a _____.
15. a purr-ient creature
16. scream fest in NYC
*17. Maria Goeppart Mayer, first American woman to win a Nobel Prize in
physics
for the nuclear shell ________.
19. 33 and 1/3 records
21. a grand celebration
*23. Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin, first woman prof at Harvard, proved stars
burn hydrogen and ____.
24. hamburger and hot dogs have one
26. the jazz singer (initials)
27. Long Island (abbr)
29. postal code of the first state