It is unlikely that anyone will associate being a scientist with being hot and sexy. It is the world of the nerds where giant eyeglasses and long white lab coats reign. While many male scientists in recent years have been widely seen on TV and elsewhere, their image has begun to change slowly but surely. But, for the women scientists, far less so. Well, here are the nine hottest women scientists you are ever likely to see.
9. Dr. Heather Knight
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She holds a PhD in Mechanics and Electrical Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon. She has been studying the interactions between humans and robots and helps create robotic figures for the entertainment industry. Robots, and their potential, have fascinated her for her entire life.
8. Dr. Franziska Michor
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She is one of the leading cancer research scientists in the country and is currently at the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. She was previously on staff at Dana-Farber in Boston. She studies cancer and how it seems to be evolving over time. She received her PhD in Evolutionary Biology from Harvard in 2005.
7. Dr. Talmesha Richards
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She received full scholarships at both Princeton and Johns Hopkins where she graduated from the school of medicine with a PhD in Cellular and Molecular Medicine. Her focus is on breast cancer and she has also worked as a professional cheerleader for two NFL teams; the Washington Redskins and the Baltimore Ravens.
6. Dr. Tali Sharot
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She received her PhD in Psychology from NYU and currently works at University College in London. There she studies brain processes and looks at how the brain relates and works regarding such things as memory and decision making in the discipline of neuroscience. She is an Israeli by birth.
5. Dr. Amy Mainzer
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She is an astronomer who took her PhD at UCLA and currently works on the Infrared Survey Explorer. Her main area of study and research has been with asteroids as well as working on projects concerning minor planets. She has appeared often on television and has been seen on many History Channel documentaries.
4. Dr. Cheska Burleson
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The 27 year old marine biologist took her PhD at the University of South Florida and is currently working on projects that analyze toxins that can be in water and oceans and is studying how certain drugs and medicines may be able to be produced from algae. She is also a competitive figure skater when she is away from the lab.
3. Dr. Rhonda Freeman
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She is an expert in neuroscience and helps with brain recovery after traumatic injury. She received her PhD in Psychology at Drexel and she, too has worked as a professional cheerleader with both the NFL’s Miami Dolphins and the Philadelphia Eagles.
2. Dr. Clio Cresswell
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She hails from Australia where she got her PhD in Mathematics from the University of New South Wales. She is also the author of a bestseller which explains the intricacies of mathematics as it relates to sex. In addition, she has created the concept of The Twelve Bonk Rule. This concept proposes that most people, after 12 physical encounters, will then choose the one that is most sexually compatible with them and stay with that partner.
1. Dr. Daniela Witten
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The 28 year old mathematics and statistics expert took her PhD at Stanford but also has a number of other graduate and undergraduate degrees. She currently works at the University of Washington as a professor of biostatistics and researches how data is involved in certain biological processes.