An educational and fun tour through centuries of research and discoveries, sure to inspire future scientists In Super Women in Science, meet ten women from ancient times to today, with lively senses of curiosity and the vision and determination to discover how and why things work. Not all are household names, since some labored behind the scenes in laboratories or in the field. Yet each has made a fundamental contribution to our understanding of the world we live in. Birute Galdikas, Rachel Carson and Chien-Shiung Wu are a few of the Super Women in Science.