Biographies of extraordinary women
Biographies of extraordinary women
Click here if you want to see this biography in Spanish translation. Biography of Beatrice Tinsley, British astronomer (1941-1981). The study of the evolution of galaxies has become one of the most important and active fields of astrophysics in the 21st century. Much of the research done by Beatrice Tinsley was the beginning of these …
Click here if you want to see this biography in Spanish translation. Biography of Florence Nightingale, whose name is always associated with “Nursing“. The first Nursing School founded by Florence Nightingale is still operating in the famous Saint Thomas Hospital in London. And there you can visit the “Florence Nightingale Museum”. There are other museums …
Click here if you want to see this biography in Spanish translation. Biography of Ada Lovelace, British mathematician of the early nineteenth century, author of the first algorithm to be processed by a machine, envisioned the ability of computers to go beyond simple numerical calculations. Ada Lovelace anticipated the development of computing The contribution of …
Click here if you want to see this biography in Spanish translation. Biography of Vivien Leigh British theater and film actress. Awarded two Oscars for best actress. She is mostly remembered for her role as Scarlett O’Hara in the movie “Gone With the Wind“. Despite her fame on the big screen, she was mostly a …
Click here if you want to see this biography in Spanish translation. Biography of Cecilia Payne, who amazed the scientific community, which believed that the composition of the stars was similar to that of Earth. Cecilia Payne discovered that this belief was wrong, and that stars are basically made up of hydrogen and helium. The …
Click here if you want to see this biography in Spanish translation. Biography of Vera Menchik, British chess player, of Russian origin, absolute dominator of women’s chess from 1926 until her tragic death in 1944, during World War II. This young British woman was the world’s first female chess champion. Also, Vera Menchik is the …
Click here if you want to see this biography in Spanish translation. Biography of Emily Brontë, author of “Wuthering Heights“, the novel that became a classic of English literature and is currently immediately identified with this young woman, who was 26 years old at the time. Emily Brontë is the author of “Wuthering Heights” “Wuthering …
Click here if you want to see this biography in Spanish translation. Biography of Agatha Miller Boehmer, better known as Agatha Christie, is the novelist who has sold the most novels worldwide: 2 billion copies. Her novels have been translated into at least 103 languages. Her “The Assassination of Roger Ackroyd” is considered by experts …
Click here if you want to see this biography in Spanish translation. Biography of Emmeline Pankhurst, who appeared in Time magazine as one of the 100 most important people of the 20th century. She fought hard for the right of women to vote, to eradicate poverty and to end ignorance. A woman of great charisma, …
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