Celebrate Women’s History Month in March 2023 with the HVCC Chemistry Club!
Feel free to log on to the Chemistry Club’s Blackboard site and post your thoughts about this year’s featured female chemist: Dr. Anna Fisher in the Women’s History Month Discussion Board. You can also add links there for other places that share info about Dr. Fisher.
The Wikipedia page (accessed March 1, 2023) for Dr. Fisher notes that she was born in Albany, NY. It also tells us that she conducted X-ray crystallographic studies of metallocarboranes.
The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex website (www.kennedyspacecenter.com) includes this information (and more): Dr. Anna Fisher was selected as an astronaut by NASA in January 1978 as one of the first, six female astronauts. Dr. Fisher is also a chemist and a medical doctor specializing in emergency medicine. Formerly married to fellow astronaut Bill Fisher, Dr. Fisher is the mother of two children and in 1984 she became the first mother to travel in space. Over the course of her NASA career, she was involved in the Space Shuttle Program, the International Space Station and the Orion capsule that is being developed for NASA’s future Space launch System.