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Marie Curie
Marie Curie was a Polish scientist - and is probably one of the most famous scientists of all time.In France, she met her husband - a man called Pierre, who was also a scientist. They discovered two new chemical elements - polonium and radiumand for this great discovery they won a NobelPrize in 1903. As if that wasn't enough, Marie went on to win another Nobel Prize in 1911. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize twice. Marie Curie was the first female professor at the University of Paris and she founded the new science of radioactivity.
Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir was a French existentialist philosopher, public intellectual, and social theorist. She wrote novels, essays, biographies, an autobiography in several volumes, and monographs on philosophy, politics, and social issues. She is now best known for her metaphysical novels, including She Came to Stayand The Mandarins, and for her 1949 treatise The Second Sex, a detailed analysis of women's oppression and a foundational tract of contemporary feminism.
Gabriela Mistral
Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, known pseudonymously as Gabriela Mistral, was a Chilean poet and diplomat whose works often explore morality and motherhood. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1945, becoming the first Latin American author to receive the honor.
Nadezhda Krupskaya
Nadezhda Krupskaya was a significant figure in the radical movement that made the Russian Revolution a century ago. She was an important pedagogue, created the new Soviet educational system and set up the workers' state libraries by boosting the Soviet library system, gave lectures and wrote extensively on the importance of a new education in the socialist society.
Frida Kahlo
Artist Frida Kahlo was considered one of Mexico's greatest artists who began painting mostly self-portraits after she was severely injured in a bus accident. Kahlo later became politically active. She exhibited her paintings in Paris and Mexico before her death in 1954.
Grace Hopper
When electronic computers began to revolutionize society, Grace Hopper was one of the leading players, having already become the first woman to earn a PhD in mathematics from Yale University in 1934. First at Harvard, and then in the US Navy, Hopper worked on the very earliest computers and later developed COBOL, the commercial programming language that enabled a military innovation to transform the business world.
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