If my science idols were superhero trading cards

In the 1980s there was a pack of trading cards featuring famous women called the Supersisters. It had 72 cards featuring politicians, writers and actresses but sadly no women in Science. I’ve been thinking lately which of my female idols I’d want in a trading pack and what might they look like. Here are my top five and of course they are manga style.

Wanda lost her sight while an undergraduate. Determined to continue in a profession that she loved she went on to intern at NASA and developed a method called data sonification. This translates satellite information from stars into sound waves, instead of visual graphs. Not only has she made it possible for astrophysicists to more accurately interpret their data but she has made the field more accessible.

The Countess of Lovelace was an English mathematician and writer best known for her work on Babbage’s proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. She was the first to recognise that the machine had applications beyond pure calculation, and published the first algorithm intended to be carried out by such a machine. Many regard her as the first computer programmer.

Marys discoveries provided evidence that was central to the development of new ideas about the history of the Earth. She played a key role in informing the work of her male contemporaries such as William Buckland and Henry de la Beche.

Mary and her brother found the first complete Ichthyosaur in 1810 followed by a complete skeleton of the long-necked Plesiosaurus in 1823. She’d go on to find many other important fossils.

A computer scientist, mathematician, and rocket scientist. She was a leading member of the team which developed software for the Centaur rocket stage and one of the first African-Americans to work as a computer scientist at NASA. She also contributed energy research to power plants and electronic batteries.

A Norwegian psychologist, neuroscientist. She shared half of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work concerning the grid cells in the entorhinal cortex. Mosers’ work enabled scientists to gain new knowledge into the cognitive processes and spacial deficits associated with human neurological conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease.

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