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Grace Brewster Hopper ( née Murray; December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral. [1] She was a pioneer of computer programming. Hopper was the first to devise the theory of machine-independent programming languages, and used this theory to develop the FLOW-MATIC ...
Mary Engle Pennington (1872–1952), American chemist. Agnes Pockels (1862–1935), German chemist. Anna Sundström (1785–1871), Swedish chemist. Clara Immerwahr (1870–1915), First woman to get her doctorate in chemistry in Germany. Ellen Swallow Richards (1842–1911), American industrial and environmental chemist.
On 3 March 2022, in celebration of Women's History Month and International Women's Day, The Lego Group issued set number 40530, A Jane Goodall Tribute, depicting a Jane Goodall minifigure and three chimpanzees in an African forest scene. Radio Four Today programme. On 31 December 2021, Goodall was the guest editor of the BBC Radio Four Today ...
Lenna (or Lena) is a standard test image used in the field of digital image processing, starting in 1973. [1] It is a picture of the Swedish model Lena Forsén, shot by photographer Dwight Hooker and cropped from the centerfold of the November 1972 issue of Playboy magazine. The image has attracted controversy in recent years because of its ...
Lyudmila Mikhailovna Pavlichenko ( Russian: Людмила Михайловна Павличенко; Ukrainian: Людмила Михайлівна Павличенко, romanized :Lyudmyla Mykhailivna Pavlychenko, née Belova; 12 July [ O.S. 29 June] 1916 – 10 October 1974) was a Soviet sniper in the Red Army during World War II. She is ...
Creola Katherine Johnson ( née Coleman; August 26, 1918 – February 24, 2020) was an American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights. [1] [2] During her 33-year career at NASA and its predecessor, she earned a reputation for ...
Occupation. Evangelist. Known for. Miraculous healings. Spouse (s) Burroughs Allen Waltrip ("Mister"), October 18, 1938– ? 1948 (divorced) Kathryn Kuhlman (May 9, 1907 - February 20, 1976) was an American Christian evangelist who was referred to by her contemporaries and the press to be a ' faith healer '.
Astronomy. Hypatia [a] (born c. 350–370; died 415 AD) [1] [4] was a Neoplatonist philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician who lived in Alexandria, Egypt, then part of the Eastern Roman Empire. She was a prominent thinker in Alexandria where she taught philosophy and astronomy. [5] Although preceded by Pandrosion, another Alexandrian female ...