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SARAH "TABITHA" BABBIT
Sarah "Tabitha" Babbitt (December 9, 1779 – circa 1853) was an early American Shaker tool maker and inventor, including inventions for the circular saw, spinning wheel head and false teeth.
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MARY ANNING
She is the 1st palaeontology and a coleccionist of English fossils. She inspectionist the first ictiosaurocorrect -
AUGUSTA ADA LOVELACE
Augusta Ada King-Noel, Countess of Lovelace (née Byron; 10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852) was an English mathematician and writer, chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine MORE INFORMATION -
Elizabeth Blackwell
Elizabeth Blackwell (3 February 1821 – 31 May 1910) was a British physician, notable as the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States and the first woman on the Medical Register of the General Medical Council. She was the first woman to graduate from a medical school, a pioneer in promoting the education of women in medicine in the United States, and a social and moral reformer in both the United States and the United Kingdom. -
MARTA COSTON
Martha Jane Coston (December 12, 1826 – July 9, 1904) was an inventor and businesswoman best known for her invention of the Coston flare, a device for signaling at sea.
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MARIA BEASLEY
Maria Beasley (1847-1904?) of Philadelphia (PA) wanted a better life raft, one that was "fire-proof, compact, safe, and readily-launched" when needed. According to the patent, she invented a new design in 1880.
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BERTHA BENZ
Bertha Benz (help·info) (née Ringer, 3 May 1849 – 5 May 1944) was a German automotive pioneer. She was the wife and business partner of automobile inventor Karl Benz. In 1888, she was the first person to drive an automobile over a long distance.[1] In doing so, she brought the Benz Patent-Motorwagen worldwide attention and got the company its first sales.
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MARY ANDERSON
Mary Anderson (February 19, 1866 – June 27, 1953)[1] was an American real estate developer, rancher, viticulturist and inventor of the windshield wiper blade. In November 1903 Anderson was granted her first patent[2] for an automatic car window cleaning device controlled inside the car, called the windshield wiper.[3]
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Mary Elizabeth Walton
Mary Elizabeth Walton was a nineteenth-century American inventor who was awarded two patents for pollution-reducing devices. In 1879, Walton created a method for reducing the environmental hazards of the smoke emitted from locomotive, industrial and residential chimneys. Her system deflected the emissions being produced by factory smokestacks into water tanks, where the pollutants were retained and later flushed "into the sewer -
Edith Clarke
Edith Clarke was the first female electrical engineer and the first female professor of electrical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. She specialized in electrical power system analysis and wrote Circuit Analysis of A-C Power Systems. -
Karen Horney
Karen Horney was born in Blankenese, Germany, on September 16, 1885. She attended medical school and began studying psychoanalysis. Horney moved to the United States in the 1930s and wrote two influential and controversial works, The Neurotic Personality of Our Time and New Ways in Psychoanalysis, which deviated sharply from Sigmund Freud's work. She died in New York City on December 4, 1952.
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Barbara McClintock
American scientist and cytogeneticist who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. McClintock received her PhD in botany from Cornell University in 1927. There she started her career as the leader in the development of maize cytogenetics, the focus of her research for the rest of her life. -
MARIA GOEPPERT-MAYER
María Goeppert was a German-born American theoretical Physicit. She was the second woman to win a Nobel Prize in Physics, for proposing the nuclear shell model of the atomic nucleus.
Goeppert Mayer, wrote the theory of posible twoo-photon absortion by atoms.
She married and moved to the United States. There, she worked on isotope separation and on the development of the taller´s "super bomb".
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HEDY LAMARR
Hedy Lamarr born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler, 9 November 1914 – 19 January 2000.Was an Austrian and American film actress and inventor.[1]MORE INFORMATION -
GERTRUDE BELL ELION
Gertrude Belle Elion (January 23, 1918 – February 21, 1999) was an American biochemist and pharmacologist, who shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with George H. Hitchings and Sir James Black. Working alone as well as with Hitchings and Black.She discovered treatments for previously incurable diseases. For example leukemia and herpes.
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Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Elsie Franklin (25 July 1920 – 16 April 1958)[1] was an English chemist and X-ray crystallographer who made contributions to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), RNA (ribonucleic acid), viruses, coal, and graphite.[2] Although her works on coal and viruses were appreciated in her lifetime, her contributions to the discovery of the structure of DNA were largely recognised posthumously. -
ESTHER LEDERBERG
Esther lederberg was an american microbiologist and a pioneer of bacterial genetics. Notable contributions include the discovery of the bacterial virus the, transfer of genes between bacterial by specialized traductions, developtment of replica platin and, the discovery of the bacterial fertility factor. -
STEPHANIE KWOLEK
Stephanie Louise Kwolek (July 31, 1923 – June 18, 2014) was an American chemist, whose career at the DuPont company spanned over forty yearsShe is best known for inventing the first of a family of synthetic fibers of exceptional strength and stiffness.
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YVONNE BRILL
Yvonne Madelaine Brill (née Claeys; December 30, 1924 – March 27, 2013) was a Canadian-American propulsion engineer best known for her development of rocket and jet propulsion technologies.[1] During her career she was involved in a broad range of national space programs in the United States, including NASA and the International Maritime Satellite Organization
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Annie Easley
Annie J. Easley (April 23, 1933 – June 25, 2011) was an African-American computer scientist, mathematician, and rocket scientist. [1] She worked for the Lewis Research Center (now Glenn Research Center) of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and its predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). scientist at NASA. -
SYLVIA ALICE EARLE
Earle was born in 1935 (Now she has got 85 years old) in the Gibbstown section of Greenwich Township, Gloucester County (U.S.A.)She was the first female chief scientist of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
She is also part of the group Ocean Elders, which is dedicated to protecting the ocean and its wildlife. In 2009, Earle won a TED Prize. With the support of TED, he launched Mission Blue, which aims to establish marine protected areas around the world. -
VALENTINA TERESHKOVA
She is a retired Russian cosmonaut, engineer and politician.
She is the first woman to have flown in space. Before her recruitment as a cosmonaut, she was a textile-factory assembly worker and an amateur skydiver. She has orbited Earth 48 times. She remains the only woman ever to have been on a solo space mission.
In 2013, she offered to go on a one-way trip to Mars if the opportunity arose. At the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics, she was a carrier of the Olympic flag. -
SAU LAN WU
She is a Chinese American particle physicist and the Enrico Fermi Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She made important contributions towards the discovery of the J/psi particle, which provided experimental evidence for the existence of the charm quark, and the gluon, the vector boson of the strong force in the Standard Model of physics. -
PATRICIA BATH
Patricia Era Bath (born November 4, 1942 in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City) is an American ophthalmologist, inventor ,and academic. She has broken ground for women and African Americans in a number of areas.
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JOCELYN BELL BURNELL
She was born in Northerm Ireland on July 15, 1943.She is an astrophysicist who discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967.
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Mae Carol Jemison
She is an American engineer,physician and NASA astronaut.
She became the first African American woman to travel in space.
Mae Carol Jemison was born in Decatur, Alabama.
Jemison graduated in Secondary school at the age of 16. He studied at Stanford University with a scholarship obtaining a degree in chemical engineering. Then he graduated in Medicine from Cornell University in 1981.
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Mary Agnes Meara Chase
Mary Agnes Chasewas born the 29th of April of 1869 and she died the 24rd of September of 1963. She worked at the U.S. Departament of Agriculture and the Smithsonian Institution. She is “considered one of the world’s outstanding agrostologists”. She is also known for her work on the study of grasses and for her work as a suffragist. Chase was born in Iroquois Country, Illinois and held no formal education beyond Grammar School. -
MARIA PEREIRA
This woman holds the key to one of the oldest problems of surgery.
Her name is Maria Pereira. She is Portuguese.
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PATRICIA BILLINGS
Patricia Billings received a patent in 1997 for a fire resistant building material called Geobond. Billings’ work as a sculpture artist put her on a journey to find or develop a durable additive to prevent her painstaking plaster works from accidentally falling and shattering.
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SARAH MATHER
Sarah Mather, American inventor, see underwater telescope
Sarah Mather, American Idol participant, MORE INFORMATION
