Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1906-1972) was a German physicist who was awarded a Nobel Prize for Physics, shared with J. Hans D. Jensen, due to their proposal of the shell nuclear model. They both shared this award with Eugene P. Wigner for …
Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958) was a British scientist known for her contributions to the discovery of the molecular structure of DNA. She studied physical chemistry at the University of Cambridge. Later, she dedicated her time to investigating the physical chemistry of …
Barbara Mcclintock (1902-1992) was an American scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1983 for her discovery of mobile genetic elements. She was doing genetic research before the DNA double helix was discovered. Barbara specialized in …
Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909-2012) était une neurologue italienne qui, avec l’aide de son collègue Stanley Cohen, a découvert le premier des nombreux facteurs de croissance cellulaire présents dans le corps des animaux, qui ont reçu le nom de facteur de croissance …
Augusta Ada Byron (1815-1852) was a British mathematician, informatician and writer who is most famous for her work on the general-purpose computer. She was the first woman to write an algorithm for a computer machine. This is why she is …
Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) was a British nurse who reformed sanitary conditions in hospitals. She is considered the founder of modern nursing. She is also known as “the lady with the lamp” because she would make her rounds among the patients …
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) was a French chemist and microbiologist known for being the founder of microbiology and a pioneer of modern medicine. However, in his early years, no one could have guessed that this would be his destiny, as he …
Stephen William Hawking (1942-2018) was a British scientist who is considered to be one of the greatest in the scientific field since Einstein. It is interesting that he was born on the same day as the death anniversary of Galileo …
Wilbur (1867-1912) and Orville (1871-1948) are 2 siblings known as the Wright Brothers. They were part of a big family of 7 American children, whose parents were Milton and Susan Catherine. In 1889, the brothers started their own newspaper called …
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) is considered to be one of the most influential physicists of the XX century. He developed the general theory of relativity, where the formula E=mc2 was born. He is mostly known for this theory and formula. In …
Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882) was a British naturalist who developed a theory of evolution based on natural selection. “He suggested that species can change over time, that new species come from pre-existing species, and that all species share a common …
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) was a Serbian-American engineer and physicist. He studied mathematics and physics at the Graz University of Technology and philosophy at the University of Prague. Tesla is responsible for how electricity flows today. He began studying electricity when …
Yuval Noah Harari is an Israeli historian, philosopher, and author of the books Sapiens, Homo Deus, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, and Sapiens: A Graphic History. He has sold millions of copies of each of his books, and they …
Alan Mathison Turing (1923-1954) was an English mathematician, logician, and computer scientist who, during World War II, cracked the Nazi secret code. Additionally, he created one of the first computers that gave birth to the machines we know today. He …
Hedy was a Viennese actress and inventor who was very late acknowledged for her engineering work developing what is now known as Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum (FHSS) created as a Secret Communication System during the Second World War hand by …
Jerome Foster II (2002-) est un jeune activiste climatique afro-américain et développeur de réalité virtuelle. Il est le directeur exécutif de OneMillionOfUs , une organisation internationale de jeunes votants et de défense des droits des jeunes qui vise à éduquer, …
Jamie Margolin (2001-) is an American girl who comes from both a Latin and Jewish family. She is an activist and fights for climate change because she says she has been thinking of global warming since she can remember and …
Lilly Platt (2008-) is a Dutch girl, who is being raised in the UK, and who has been interested in the environment since 2015. Her ecologist journey began one day she was walking with her grandfather and they saw a …
Isra Hirsi (2003-) est une jeune militante environnementale de Minneapolis, co-fondatrice et co-directrice exécutive de la US Youth Climate Strike. Elle a mené plusieurs grèves à travers les États-Unis avec la coopération d’autres jeunes femmes de ce pays. La grève …
