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Maria Hebrearra
He was the first alchemist scientist. She is also considered the first female inventor. His three inventions: tribichos, kerotakis and Maria bath. -
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Hipatia
He was a messenger of science and wisdom.
He wrote more than forty books, including Diophantus' Astronomical Canon. He invented Plasnisphere and several scientific instruments, including the flat astrolabe and the hydroscope. -
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
From being a singer to being an astronomer. She borned in Prussia in 1750. She was the first woman to find a comet and became an astronomer for the discovery of a new planet Uranus. She died in 1848, at the age of 97. She was awarded the Gold Medal of Science. -
Sophie Germain
He was a revolutionary mathematician. She borned in Paris in 1776 and she died in breast cancer in 1831. Throughout her life working on this work; curvature. She spent all life in maths and she never married. She won the Academy of Sciences Award. -
Mary Anning
She was a self-taught paleontologist who was fossil-searching. She was born in a very poor family in 1799. She discovered the first skeleton of an ictosaur and a pleciosaur. Her work was essential to understand prehistory and paleontological birth. -
Florence Nightingale
She is a pioneer in today's nursing. She born in Florence in 1820 and she died in 1910. She had a great mathematical wisdom and a hospital death rate dropped from 42% to 2%. -
Marie Curie
She had a great passion for research. She borned in Poland in 1867 and died in 1934. She has received two Nobel Prizes and is the only person who has received two Nobel Prizes. She found the radius. -
Henrietta Swan Leavitt
She was an astronomer calculator. She borned in 1868. She discovered 2400 stellar stars and established a system of measurements for determining the distance of stars. In 1921 she died of cancer. She wanted to present the Nobel Prize but she was unable to make her death. -
Rosalind Elsie Franklin
She was a biophysicist and crystallographer. She borned in 1920 and died in 1958. Is the author of numerous scientific texts on DNA structure, virus, coal and graphite. She received the Nobel Prize in Medicine. She also directed some of the leading tobacco mosaic virus and polybirds. She worked with the X-ray and led her to death. -
Frances Elizabeth Allen
She is the pioneer of the optimization of compilers. She borned in 1932 Among its most important accomplishments, we can find original compilers and coding optimization-paralysis. At the beginning of 2007, she was the first woman to receive the Turing award for the Association for Computing Machinery. -
Chien-Shiung Wu
She was the first lady of physics. She borned in 1912 and died in 1997 by a heart attack. She was the first woman to receive a doctorate "honoris causa" at the University of Prienceton. She was excluded from the Nobel prize. She was the first female President of the American Physical Society. -
Jane Goodall
She spent life in the defense of the primates. She borned in 1934. In 1965 she obtained an honorary doctorate from Cambridge University in Ethology. She founded the Jane Goodall institute. She has won over 100 awards, among them the Prince of Asturias Award. She is the United Nations Peace Ambassador. She is currently fighting for the defense of animals. -
Rita Levi-Montalcini
She borned in Turin in 1909. She was one hundred years old. She found a growth factor and she won the Nobel Prize. She died at the age of 103 in 2012. She accelerated the treatment of neurological diseases.
