Iron Willed: Women in Stem

Dr. Irene Uchida working in a lab. Photo: McMaster University Health Sciences Archives

Iron Willed: Women in Stem

Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre, Burnaby, BC

Through interactive digital displays and colourful info-graphics, Iron Willed celebrates the lives and accomplishments of women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). It also examines the gender hurdles they had to overcome to make their mark in their individual fields. Women profiled include Harriet Brooks, the first Canadian woman to become a nuclear physicist; Irene Ayako Uchida, who introduced cytogenetics to Canada; and Donna Strickland, whose work with lasers won her a Nobel Prize.

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