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Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) was a nurse, a social reformer, a statistician and a pioneer of information design.
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May 12, 2021
Valentina Tereshkova
Valentina Tereshkova
Valentina Tereshkova, Russian cosmonaut and engineer, is the first and youngest woman to have flown in space and the only one to have done…
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Apr 7, 2020
RITA LEVI MONTALCINI
RITA LEVI MONTALCINI
One of the most tenacious scientists of the 20th century, #Nobel Prize for NGF #discovery.
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Jun 25, 2019
YOUYOU TU
YOUYOU TU
Known as the #3NOs professor and because it must be very confusing to sing her the happy birthday song. Also, first #Chinese #female…
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Jun 25, 2019
MARTINE BERTEREAU
MARTINE BERTEREAU
A #mining #engineer, and the first #female #mineralogist ever recorded.
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Jun 25, 2019
MARYAM MIRZAKHANI
MARYAM MIRZAKHANI
A prized #Iranian #mathematician, the first woman to receive a #Fields Medal... and an #artist, according to her daughter Anahita.
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Jun 27, 2019
HYPATIA
HYPATIA
A greek #astronomer, #philosopher and the earliest known female #mathematician. Now a #feminist icon.
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Jun 25, 2019
Nettie Stevens
Nettie Stevens
The american #geneticist who discovered that #sex is determined by #chromosomes. Her story is a tale of unflinching determination and…
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Jul 23, 2019
Laura Bassi
Laura Bassi
An extra-ordinary Italian 18th-century physicist: the first woman in Europe to be appointed professorship in a scientific field.
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Aug 23, 2019
Irene Joliot-Curie
Irene Joliot-Curie
A French radiochemist, a battlefield radiologist, feminist and pacifist. Irene was awarded — jointly with her husband — the 1935 Nobel…
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Sep 17, 2019
Hedy Lamarr
Hedy Lamarr
A stunning movie actress and an ingenious inventor. A woman praised for her sultry beauty but whose intelligence was consistently…
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Oct 29, 2019
Grace Brewster Murray Hopper
Grace Brewster Murray Hopper
A Rear Admiral in the Navy and a pioneering computer scientist. She brought programming closer to English, developing an early compiler…
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Feb 5, 2020
Alice Augusta Ball
Alice Augusta Ball
An Afro-American chemist and pharmacist who developed an effective and injectable treatment for leprosy (Hansen’s disease) ,her story long…
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Feb 28, 2020
KATHERINE JOHNSON
KATHERINE JOHNSON
The #African #American #mathematician (and probably the only person ever) who was considered to be more precise and reliable than…
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Jun 25, 2019
Joan Clarke
Joan Clarke
Joan Clarke (Joan Elisabeth Lowther Murray) was an English cryptanalyst, best known for her work on decrypting Nazi Germany’s secret…
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May 13, 2020
Margherita Hack
Margherita Hack
Margherita Hack was an Italian astrophysicist, scientific disseminator and icon of free thought.
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Jun 1, 2020
Lise Meitner
Lise Meitner
Lise Meitner (1878–1968) was an Austrian-Swedish physicist, who gave the first theoretical explanation of nuclear fission.
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Jul 21, 2020
Gertrude Elion
Gertrude Elion
Gertrude was an American biochemist and pharmacologist who pioneered the field of rational drug design, for which she was awarded the…
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Aug 26, 2020
Rachel Carson
Rachel Carson
Rachel Carson (1907–1964) was an American biologist and writer, whose books became catalysts for advancing the global environmental…
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Oct 19, 2020
Mary Anning
Mary Anning
Mary Anning was an English palaeontologist, whose findings contributed to redefine scientific theories about the (pre-)history of life on…
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Jan 25, 2021
Vera Rubin
Vera Rubin
Vera Rubin was an American astronomer whose work on galaxy rotation rates provided evidence for the existence of dark matter.
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Mar 2, 2021
Chien-Shiung Wu
Chien-Shiung Wu
Chien-Shiung Wu — the First Lady of Physics — was a Chinese experimental physicist, whose work on beta decay and parity violation made…
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Mar 30, 2021
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