I'm back this week with the promised second part to my Women in STEM special. This week, we'll explore the stories of 6 more women who changed the world, beginning with Genevieve Grotjan Feinstein who cracked the elusive Japanese Purple code during World War II. Chien-Shiung Wu made breakthrough discoveries in physics and helped develop the first atomic bomb with her critical involvement in the Manhattan Project. Katherine Johnson helped put the first man in orbit and send men to the moon. Sally Ride became the first American woman in space followed shortly after by Mae Jemison, the first African American woman in space. And, a cameo you may not be expecting, Judith Love Cohen, mother of actor and musician Jack Black, helped bring the astronauts home during the failed Apollo 13 mission to the moon.

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Wikipedia "Genevieve Grotjan Feinstein"
National Security Agency "Genevieve Grotjan Feinstein"
National Women's History Museum "Chien-Shiung Wu"
NASA "Katherine Johnson Biography"
National Women's History Museum "Sally Ride"
NASA "Sally Ride"
National Women's History Museum "Mae Jemison"
Wikipedia "Judith Love Cohen"

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