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Florence Nightingale
The first woman to receive the Order of Merit from the United Kingdom, she was the creator of a professional model of nursing which used mathematics statistics on epidemiology.
Florence Nightingale led the first official team of military nurses in Turkey during the Crimean War.
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Elena Maseras
She is one of the most important women in Spain, the first woman to enter the University in our country, specifically the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Barcelona. It was in the course 1872/73 -
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Emmeline Pankhurst
In 1903, the social reformer Emmeline Pankhurst founded the Women's Social and Political Union to campaign for a parliamentary vote for women in the UK.
"Facts, not words," was her slogan. Pankhurst, a charismatic leader and powerful speaker, incited thousands of women to demand for their rights making a massive movement that has been unparalleled in British history. -
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Marie Curie
She was a physicist, mathematician and chemist specialized in the field of radioactivity.
Marie was not only the first woman, also the first person to receive two Nobel Prizes in different specialties: Physics (1903) and Chemistry (1911).
Curie discovered radioactivity, and, together with her husband Pierre, the radioactive elements polonium and radium while working with the mineral pitchblende. She also championed the development of X-rays after Pierre's death. -
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Virginia Woolf
She is recognised as one of the most innovative writers of the 20th century. Perhaps best known as the author of Mrs Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927), she was also a prolific writer of essays, diaries, letters and biographies. -
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Coco Chanel
A fashion designer, she is considered one of the most influential women of the 20th century. She was in charge of adapting to the woman's body the garments that until then were only for men, a great success in those times. -
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Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo was a feminist and artist
She didn’t mind about what people thought about her, she set her own beauty standards.
She valued and celebrated characteristics that society has tag as unfeminine and ugly.
Frida also dressed in a particular manner, very different from the Mexican women.
Her fashion consisted of gay, Mexican tradition clothes.
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Simone de Beauvoir
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Simone de Beauvoir
Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir was a French philosopher, teacher and writer who fought for equal rights for women. He wrote novels, essays, biographies, and monographs on political, social, and philosophical topics.
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Rosa parks
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Rosa Parks
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks, was an African-American activist, an important figure in the civil rights movement in the United States, especially for having refused to give up her seat to a white person and move to the back of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama, on 1 December 1955. -
Hedy Lamarr
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Hedy Lamarr
One of the most beautiful actresses in Hollywood, Hedy Lamarr was also a brilliant inventor who developed, among other things, Wi-Fi. In fact, in Austria, Inventor's Day is celebrated on November 9 in his honor. -
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Rosalind Franklin
She was 30 years old when she generated a photograph, known as "Photo 51", which was key of demonstrating for the first time
how the structure of DNA should be like.
But the British scientist, who died of ovarian cancer in 1958 when she was 37 years old, was never recognized with the Nobel Prize until four years after her death. -
Ana frank
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Ana frank
Was a German girl with Jewish ancestry known worldwide thanks to the Diary of Anne Frank, the edition of her intimate diary where she recorded the almost two and a half years she spent hiding with her family and four other people from the Nazis in Amsterdam during the Second World War.
Once they were discovered them, Ana and her family were captured and taken to different German concentration camps. -
Benazir Bhutto
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Benazir Bhutto
She was the first woman elected Prime Minister in a Muslim country, winning the 1988 elections. The country's tense climate and allegations of corruption forced Bhutto into exile in Repeated times from Pakistan. After eight years of exile between Dubai and London, she returned to the country after the causes of corruption against her were annulled, with the intention of heading, once again, PPP. 70 days later he suffered a deadly attack, where a bomb killed another 38 people. -
Malala Yousafzai
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Malala Yousafzai
Malala is an activist in favor of civil rights, especially for women, in Pakistan's Swat River Valley, where the Taliban regime has prohibited girls from attending school.
She’s ideals led to her being shot in the head while she was in a school bus going to Mingora City.
These young woman spread her fight around the world
Her work led her to be awarded to the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014. With only seventeen years she became the youngest person to access that award.
