Ynes Mexia became a botanist at the age of 55, and on her many worldwide expeditions she gathered thousands of specimens.
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The recipient of Gallaudet University’s 2013 Distinguished Faculty Award, Dr. Caroline M Solomon has a passion for teaching and can’t imagine doing anything else.
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On May 18th, 1991, Helen Sharman became the first Briton in space when she traveled to the MIR space station.
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When Dr. Lose earned her degree of veterinary medicine, she was one of three female graduates and the only one to go into large-animal practice, concentrating on equine care.
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Maria Gaetana Agnesi was a child prodigy who became a celebrated mathematician, though that wasn’t her first choice.
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As the first to recognize cystic fibrosis as a disease, Dr. Dorothy H. Andersen changed the lives of people with this condition.
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With her studies of the effects of mustard gas, Dr. Charlotte Auerbach helped create the science of mutagenesis.
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Inge Lehmann helped us discover what really lies at the center of our planet.
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You might think you know the story of Florence Nightingale as a pioneer in the nursing profession, but did you know she was also a brilliant statistician?
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Susan Jane Cunningham was integral to the building of the mathematics and astronomy departments at the newly founded Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania in 1869.
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