Notable Women in Science and Space
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Patricia Bath is a pioneering American woman in ______.

ophthalmology

She developed the ______ Probe, a laser for cataract removal.

Laserphaco

Patricia Bath was the first female ophthalmologist at UCLA's Jules Stein Eye ______.

Institute

She co-founded the American Institute for the Prevention of ______.

<p>Blindness</p> Signup and view all the answers

Patricia Bath's philosophy is that 'to restore sight is the ultimate ______.'

<p>reward</p> Signup and view all the answers

Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman and the first civilian to fly in ______.

<p>space</p> Signup and view all the answers

Tereshkova was launched into space on the ______ 6 capsule.

<p>Vostok</p> Signup and view all the answers

She completed 48 orbits of Earth over ______ hours of flight.

<p>71</p> Signup and view all the answers

After leaving school, Valentina worked in a textile factory and learned ______ jumping.

<p>parachute</p> Signup and view all the answers

In 1966, Tereshkova was awarded the title of Hero of the ______.

<p>Soviet Union</p> Signup and view all the answers

Roger Penrose collaborated with Stephen Hawking in 1969 to publish a paper on the gravitational collapse of massive ______.

<p>stars</p> Signup and view all the answers

Hawking radiation is produced when one particle falls into the black hole while its pair escapes as ______.

<p>radiation</p> Signup and view all the answers

Hawking's work in 1974 combined insights from Einstein's general theory of relativity and ______.

<p>quantum mechanics</p> Signup and view all the answers

Hawking argued that questioning what existed before the universe's beginning was a ______ question.

<p>meaningless</p> Signup and view all the answers

Hawking radiation causes black holes to lose energy and mass, eventually leading to their ______.

<p>evaporation</p> Signup and view all the answers

Jocelyn Bell Burnell was the first scientist to detect ______.

<p>pulsars</p> Signup and view all the answers

Bell Burnell pursued her PhD thesis at ______ University.

<p>Cambridge</p> Signup and view all the answers

Stephen Hawking wrote his PhD thesis on the properties of ______.

<p>expanding universes</p> Signup and view all the answers

The unexpected signals detected in November 1967 pulsated every ______ seconds.

<p>1.337</p> Signup and view all the answers

Bell Burnell initially referred to the discovered pulsars as ______-1.

<p>LGM</p> Signup and view all the answers

Hawking developed his theories while studying at ______ University.

<p>Cambridge</p> Signup and view all the answers

In 2007, Jocelyn Bell Burnell received the title of Dame Commander of the British ______.

<p>Empire</p> Signup and view all the answers

In 1974, Hawking predicted that black holes emit ______ and eventually evaporate.

<p>heat</p> Signup and view all the answers

Hawking served as the Lucasian Professor of ______ at Cambridge.

<p>Mathematics</p> Signup and view all the answers

Stephen Hawking was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University from ______ to 2009.

<p>1979</p> Signup and view all the answers

His book A Brief History of ______ was published in 1988.

<p>Time</p> Signup and view all the answers

Hawking's book, ______ History of Time, became a runaway success.

<p>A Brief</p> Signup and view all the answers

The term 'black hole' was coined in ______.

<p>1967</p> Signup and view all the answers

Stephen Hawking won the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics valued at ______ million dollars.

<p>3</p> Signup and view all the answers

Hawking was diagnosed with ______ in 1963.

<p>ALS</p> Signup and view all the answers

Roger Penrose collaborated with Hawking to prove the existence of gravitational ______.

<p>singularities</p> Signup and view all the answers

Hawking's research focused on the phenomenon of ______ holes.

<p>black</p> Signup and view all the answers

Despite facing physical challenges, Hawking garnered significant ______ throughout his career.

<p>recognition</p> Signup and view all the answers

In 1984, Tak Wah Mak detailed the genetic encoding of human ______ receptors.

<p>T-cell</p> Signup and view all the answers

In 1999, Mak identified a chemical to block Hodgkin's lymphoma's ______ supply.

<p>fuel</p> Signup and view all the answers

Mak's research using ______ helped isolate cancer and immunology functions in 1988.

<p>mice</p> Signup and view all the answers

Tak Wah Mak was born in southern China in ______.

<p>1946</p> Signup and view all the answers

Mak's breakthrough revealed that T-cell receptors have a unique genetic ______ and origin.

<p>sequence</p> Signup and view all the answers

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