“ Every individual matters. Every individual has a role in to play. Every individual makes a difference”. Jane Goodall is one of the most inspiring scientists of the 20 and 21st century. The early life of this scientist, as well as her discoveries, and how she changed science have contributed to her popularity within the scientific community, as well as the world.…
Maria Mitchell was one America’s first famous female astronomer. Maria was taught by her father taught her how to observe the sky. Maria broke several barriers for women during her life. She influenced the Women’s Rights Movements greatly. This remarkable woman was one of the best scientists of the 19th century.…
Katherine Johnson an African American mathematician who devoted her life to making NASA successful. She was born on August 26, 1918. She was born lived and grew up in white Sulphur springs. She attended West Virginia State. She had a lot of accomplishments.…
While working as a teacher, she began to fight for a change in America because working conditions were poor. Her fighting led to her being one of the most influential women of the Civil Rights Era, because she fought for working conditions and equal rights on transportation, she created the anti-lynching campaign, spoke about rapes, and encouraged blacks to…
Women are having children when they are still children themselves and not having the financial stability or not knowing how to care for the children properly, that is until Margaret Sanger decided to do something about it. In her famous speech “The Children's Era” delivered in March of 1925 in New York, NY Margaret Sanger was a birth control activist who wanted to let all people know what she knew, the importance of birth control and how it could change a life. Margaret Luis Higgins on September 14, 1879, in Corning, New York. She died September 6, 1966, in Tucson, Arizona.…
Carol W.Greider is a biologist who discovered something very important. When she completed her Ph.D. from the university of Cal Berkeley She then went of into researching of the cell. She then saw a thing called a telomerase that can cause cancer if destroyed. She was researching in Long Island, New York when she discovered a protein that stops telomerase from disintegrating. She then got the nobel peace prize for discovering that in the year 2009.…
Hedy Lamarr was born in Vienna. She left America to get away from her husband who was selling weapons to the Nazis. Her excuse was she had an acting career. She did have an acting career I mean she was a good actor and a beautiful woman. She tried acting in many places…
Marie Curie’s took her first breath on November 7th, 1867, and drew her last on July 4th, 1934. Her life’s journey took her through success, fame, joy, and also tragic deaths of loved ones. Marie was born in Warson, what was then in the Kingdom of Poland. She was most known for being the first Polish-born French physicist/chemist, and being the first woman to win the Nobel Prize twice.…
Grieder she seem like a very smart and sweet kind of person also seems very determind to help people with her discovery of the telomerase which is a very great discovery that will help millions of people when they have that one thing they need to make it perfect. The thing that surprised me the most is that she is so smart and had done this even with her having dyslexia which is a disease that makes it really hard for people to read and write like other people but she had out smarted us all and i think that is incredible . Carol Grieder is a good person to look up to she is a very very amazing women and i know she will figure that one thing she needs to make it all go her way with the…
Maria Kirch was an influential person. She did many great studies on outer space, and was the first women known to discover a comet. Her success empowered many astronomers and women. Maria Kirch was born in February 25th, 1670. Growing up her dad believed she deserved the same education as a boy her age got introduction of Maria Winkelmann Kirch), and educated her until he got sick and died.…
However fortunate Ada did grow up to be both a mathematician and scientist, although Ada’s mom did force her to be those because when Ada was in her thirties she wrote to her mom wishing she would have let her enjoy the arts her father found enjoyment in. Ada Lovelace accomplished and highly contributed to the math society. She contributed her knowledge in writing the first computer programs in the mid 1800s. She is known as one of the first computer programmers and way ahead of any other female or male scientist of her time. Without Ada’s intelligence we wouldn't be able to look at everyday websites such as wikipedia or facebook.…
Forming the Technological World There are many legendary people in the world. Such as speakers, teachers, writers, and inventors. We assume the inventors are all men, but hundreds of years ago, a woman helped shape the math and science world into what it is today. The woman's name was Ada Lovelace. Ada Lovelace was a successful, brilliant woman, who helped create the technological world, even today by being the world's first computer programmer.…
Gertrude Bell’s discoveries and accomplishments serve as a reason for change in the way that women were seen in history during her time as well as in the future. Her undeniable passion and hard work also served as a way for people to know more about the places that they couldn’t travel too. Her important discoveries are what gave people information about faraway places and led to many changes in the way that people thought about the world. Gertrude Bell was born on July 14, 1868 in Durham.…
On November 07, 1867, Poland was divided and ruled under Prussia, Austria and the Russian Empire. This date is also known as the birth of Maria Sklodowska, who is commonly known as Marie Curie. She was the first woman to gain recognition in the science field. As well as, the first and only female to have won two Nobel Prize awards in different categories. Marie Curie was a towering scientific intellect during the Victorian era, where opportunities for women academically were extremely rare.…
Her argument eventually succeeded in banning DDT from use in America, and basically started the notion of environmentalism that followed her publishing of Silent Spring. Her book is one of the most iconic books in the environmental fields. It shows that it truly is possible for one person to cause great changes in the way people think. Rachel Carson went up against large chemical companies during the 1960’s when women were still establishing themselves in the working world. Despite these disadvantages, she was able to start a huge environmental movement, rallying people all across America and subsequently stopping the use of DDT in America.…