In honor of International Women’s Day, #womenyoushouldhaveheardof

In honor of International Women’s Day, I F***ing Love Science’s Twitter is clueing us in re: the #womenyoushouldhaveheardof of science. Here are the gals they tweeted about that should be on ALL our radars:

The woman who helped discover the structure of DNA

NASA’s secret weapon was a woman

The woman whose super cells helped develop hundreds of lifesaving drugs and vaccines

The first woman to work as a professional astronomer

The world’s first computer programmer

The first woman in space

The first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize