4 Women of Color Pioneers in STEM
Responsible for the mathematics that brought about the invention of the Global Positioning System (GPS). She programmed the mathematics and calculations for the complex computer that eventually became known as a GPS.
The first Native American woman to earn a medical degree. She became a physician and devoted her life to providing medical care to the Omaha tribe.
The first Latina astronaut to explore outer space. Her first trip to space took place on the Discovery in 1993, and she has since been to outer space three more times.
The first woman from the People’s Republic of China to receive the Nobel Prize. She and two other scientists shared the Nobel in physiology or medicine for their groundbreaking work discovering artemisinin and dihydroartemisinin, the drugs that treat malaria