People of science
Walentina Tierieszkowa
Today we are returning to the Slavic countries with the post "People of Science". We will present the person from # USSR, Valentina Tereshkova - the first woman in space. Interestingly, she was not a scientist. She worked as a textile...
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
In today's post from the People of Science series, we present the achievements of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, born in England and studying in the United States. She was one of the first ladies to graduate from #Harvard College Observatory...
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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
Today we will present another extraordinary woman in our People of Science series - the first English doctor ? - Elisabeth Garrett Anderson. A woman with great determination, thanks to which other ladies could become doctors. The period...
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Inge Lehmann
In today's post from the People of Science series, the silhouette of Dane, Mrs. Inga Lehmann, seismologists. In the 1940s, she compared earthquake data and thanks to this, based on the propagation of seismic waves, she discovered what was...
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Helen Gwynne-Vaughan
November, in terms of posts from the People of Science series, definitely belongs to English women. Today we will present a silhouette of a botanist and mycologist Mrs. Helen Gwynne-Vaughan from London. Helen was born in 1879 into an...
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Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake
Today, in the People of Science series, we will present Mrs. Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake. Sophia was born in England in 1840. She studied very well and quickly dreamed of becoming a doctor?. Unfortunately, in the years she lived, women could...
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Salome Gluecksohn Waelsch
In the next post from our unique People of Science series, we will present the figure of Mrs. Salome Gluecksohn Waelsch, a German woman of Jewish origin, born in Gdańsk in 1907. Growing up during the war times, Salome did not have an easy...
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Martha Tracy
Today, in addition to World Animal Day, we also celebrate World Oncology Day. For this reason, in the next post in the People of Science series, we will present the person of an oncologist, an American - Martha Tracy. Just a year after...
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Esther Lederberg
In today's post from the Women in Science series, we will present the figure of Esther Lederberg - a microbiologist, immunologist and geneticist. Initially, she studied literature, but was always drawn to biological sciences - she was a...
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