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) was an Italian neurologist who, with the help of her colleague Stanley Cohen, discovered the first of many cell-growth factors to be found in the bodies of animals, which received the name nerve-growth factor (NGF). In order …
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 the sanitary conditions in hospitals. She is considered to be the founder of modern nursing. She is also known as “the lady with the lamp” since she used to make her …
Louis Pasteur (1822-1295) was a French chemist and bacteriologist who is known to be the founder of microbiology and pioneer of modern medicine. However, in his early days, nobody would have guessed that would be his destiny since he was …
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. …
Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882) was a British naturalist who developed a theory of evolution based on natural selection. “He proposed 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 Technical University of Graz and philosophy at the University of Prague. Tesla is responsible for how electricity travels around nowadays. He started investigating electricity …
Yuval Noah Harari is an Israeli historian, philosopher and writer 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 informatician who, during World War II, cracked the enigma of the secret code of the Nazis. Moreover, he created one of the first computers that later led to the ones …
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-) is a young African-American climate activist and virtual reality developer. He is the Executive Director of OneMillionOfUs, which is an international youth voting & advocacy youth organization that aims to educate, energize and empower a movement …
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-) is a young environmental activist from Minneapolis who is the Co-founder and Co-executive Director of the US Youth Climate Strike. She has led several strikes around the U.S. with the cooperation of other young females in this …
