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>>Katrina: One of my favorite scientists is

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astronomer Michelle Thaller because I really admire a lot of the communication work

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she does. But probably the most inspiring female scientist growing up was the

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fictional character Ms. Frizzle. Because, "Take chances, make mistakes,

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get messy" is just the best mantra ever. >>Colleen: Lise Meitner is by far

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my favorite physicist of any gender. Because she 

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unlocked the mysteries of the atom, which helps all of

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humanity. And yes, it was used for nuclear fission

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and helping us win World War II, but it's now

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being used for peaceful purposes. >>Neil: I have the greatest admiration for

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Vera Rubin, who found that galaxies are rotating 

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too fast for the amount of mass that we see, which is evidence for

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the existence of dark matter. >>Joy: Quirky, encouraging, 

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incredibly inspiring, and slightly crazy. This is Miss

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Mower, my high school teacher. She's my favorite woman in science. 

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Not only does she push my curiosity about the world, but she taught me to believe that

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everything is impossible until someone does it. >>Piers: Sofia

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Kovalyevskaya. She was a brilliant Russian mathematician, she

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was the first woman in Europe to get a PhD in mathematics, and she developed some

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really astounding theories pretty much all by herself. She met with a whole

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lot of interesting people in Europe and lived a very exciting and interesting life, so look her up. 

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>>Claire: One female scientist who really inspires me is Caroline Herscel. 

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She was born back in 1750 when it was really tough for a

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female to get a good education at all, and she also had

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major childhood diseases that disfigured her life, and yet

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despite that, she became a famous astronomer, made major

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discoveries, and got major awards. And

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she's a real inspiration. >>Noah: I always found Carle Pieters

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to be very inspiring because she started her career at a time

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when women were not so common in planetary

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science. And she's always carried herself with an amazing amount of

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honor, with an amazing amount of dignity, 

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and treated people, no matter who they are or what they believed in,

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with an amazing amount of respect. And for that Carle Pieters is one of the most

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amazing female scientists that I've ever had the privilege of knowing. >>Kasha: My favorite woman in science

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is Ellen Swallow Richards. She's an industrial and environmental 

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chemist, and she laid the foundation for what is known today as

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the home economics movement. She focused a lot on proper 

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clothing, pure food, nutrition, sanitation, and

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more efficient practice so females could spend more time

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on things other than cooking and cleaning inside the household. >>Jim: To me there are really two

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science leader women who have inspired me and I think 

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who have inspired our agency. The first is Sally Ride, our first

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female astronaut, and a scientist and astrophysicist, who not only lead

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us on the Shuttle flights, but also in recapturing the leadership 

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of NASA in the post-Challenger days. Secondly, my colleague, 

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fellow scientist Lori Glaze, a brilliant vulcanologist. 

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She inspires leadership as a leading kind of person, someone

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who not only does the science but is great working with the people to give us the

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hope and inspiration to do those great new missions that we strive to do. >>Lola: Dr. 

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Jane Goodall. She studied chimp behavior over

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many years in Tanzania, and her perseverance 

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and her courage to live by herself in the middle of nowhere 

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was always inspiring to me. >>Pat: Women in science who 

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inspired me? I can't remember all the names. There's Judy Resnik, 

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Sally Ride, Claire Parkinson, Heidi Hammel, 

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Nicky Fox, Michelle Thaller, Holly Gilbert, Kim Weaver,

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and I apologize for those names I've left out.

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Joanne Simpson, an inspiring scientist, because

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she discovered things that changed how we think about tropical meteorology 

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and even after that she was always willing to help other people

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get started in their careers. >>Dalia: My most inspiring female scientist is

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actually my mom. She's a dentist and an entrepreneur. 

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She hasn't won a Nobel prize, but most importantly she's shown 

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me and everybody around me the ability to balance

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family and have a successful career. And that has taken me all the way through

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and she is my role model.

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