• Third woman elected to the National Academy of Science (1944) • First woman president of the Genetics Society of America (1945) • Received the National Medal of Science (1971) […]
Barbara McClintock (1902-1992), Pioneering Scientist and Nobel Winner Read More »
Virginia Hall worked as a spy for the Allies during World War II. She served overseas, and when the war ended, she was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. She was
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Created a product that launched in international empireHelena Rubinstein was the eldest of eight daughters born to a store owner and his wife in Kraków, Poland.
Helena Rubinstein (1870-1965), Extraordinarily Successful Businesswoman Read More »
Considered America’s first major prima ballerina and first Native American to achieve that distinction Elizabeth Marie Tall Chief was born on an Indian reservation in Fairfax, Oklahoma in 1925. Her
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Carrie Amelia Moore Nation was born in 1846 in Kentucky to a slave-owning family that was very religious. In 1854 the family moved to Cass County in western Missouri, which turned out to be close to the fighting going on in Kansas over slavery. At various times then and during the Civil War, Carrie Nation was among the women who aided injured soldiers in the area.
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Elected as Democratic National Committeewoman from CaliforniaHelen Gahagan Douglas was born in 1900 and was raised in a well-to-do family in Brooklyn, New York. She was not a serious student but loved acting, and by the age of 22 she had been cast in a lead role on Broadway. She never returned to Barnard College where she had been a student.
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