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Thursday, March 28, 2002

1. In what country was Sofia Kovalevskaya born?

2. What originally sparked her interest in mathematics?

3. In what other field was her mathematical work extremely beneficial?

4. What honor did this work earn her?

5. Mathematician and astronomer Mary Somerville was born in what country?

6. What was her most famous contribution to math and science?

7. Somerville was self-taught. Why?

8. Helen Sawyer Hogg was born in the United States, but she is claimed by what country as one of their greatest female astronomers?

9. At what university did she spend 40 years on the faculty?

10. What high astronomical honor did she receive?

1. Russia.
2. Her father's old math notes were used as wallpaper in her room.
3. Astronomy.
4. A crater on the moon was named in her honor.
5. Scotland.
6. Translation and explanation of Laplace's Celestial Mechanics.
7. Her parents believed formal education for a woman was "unladylike."
8. Canada.
9. University of Toronto.
10. A minor planet was named in her honor.

Thursday, March 28, 2002