Snapshot Sister Elizabeth Kenny Biography
In a survey of Americans conducted in 1951, Sister Elizabeth Kenny was voted the most admired woman in the world. Hollywood had already brought her story to lif...
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Snapshot Margaret Harwood Biography
It was 1907, and Margaret Harwood had just graduated from Radcliffe College with an A.B. degree in astronomy. She applied for a job at the Harvard College Obser...
Snapshot Maria Mitchell Biography
Snapshot Maria Mitchell Biography Professor Maria Mitchell, a renowned astronomer, was curious, independent, and action-oriented. She believed in science and th...
Snapshot Nikola Tesla Biography
He was an idealist and an idle dreamer. One who spent his time thinking about inventions. He ate little and didn’t indulge in vices. Other than generosity...
Ernest Everett Just: a snapshot biography.
“The brotherhood of man is not so much a Christian doctrine as a fundamental biological law. For biology does not and cannot recognize any specific differences ...
Chemist Alice Augusta Ball
Alice Augusta Ball was a chemist who developed a treatment for leprosy after becoming the first woman and African-American to graduate with a master’s deg...
Irène Joliot-Curie: a snapshot biography
Her parents were the first married couple to win a Nobel Prize. She and her husband were the second. Irène Joliot-Curie was born in Paris in 1897 to Marie and P...
A snapshot biography of scientist Lise Meitner
Biography It was the summer of 1938. For Lise Meitner, a Jewish scientist in Germany, the time had come to escape. Emigrating was no longer an option. A group o...
A snapshot biography of Mary Watson Whitney
Born in Waltham, Massachusetts, in 1847, Mary excelled as a student from a young age. But because of the time, her college options were limited. She went to the...
Marie Skłodowska Curie: a snapshot biography
“We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a p...