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- George Eliot (6014 bytes)
5: ...attending her relationship with [[George Henry Lewes]].
8: ...ime that she began to live with [[George Henry Lewes]] in an extramarital cohabitation.
10: ...abitation with Lewes was a scandalous matter. Lewes' wife refused to be divorced, and so he remained ...
12: ...married a friend, [[John Cross]], an [[United States|American]] banker, who was 20 years her junior. T...
14: Friend and author [[Henry James]] once wrote of her: - Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
2: .... Her best-known work is most likely ''[[Their Eyes Were Watching God]]''.
5: ...rida]]. She studied [[anthropology]] at [[Barnard College]] under [[Franz Boas]] at [[Columbia University]]...
7: Hurston's work slid into obscurity for decades, explainable for a number of reasons, cultural an...
9: ...he actual speech of the period, and thus it embraces the dialect and culture of Black America of the e...
11: Quote:"Dat's a big ole resurrection lie, Ned. Uh slew-foot, drag-leg lie at... - Georgia O'Keeffe (2572 bytes)
2: ...– [[March 6]],[[1986]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[art]]ist born in [[Sun Prairie, Wisc...
4: ...ed as [[Yoni|yonic]] symbols. Her mature style stressed contours and subtle tonal transitions, which o...
6: ...914]]. In [[1916]] started teaching at [[Columbia College]] in [[Columbia, South Carolina]].
8: ...'s interpretations of landscapes in the American West.
12: ...health, was uncomfortable with travel. Her trips west gave her the solitude she required to pursue her... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...74]] - [[July 27]], [[1946]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[writer]], [[poet]], [[feminism|femin...
7: ...ed in [[California]], graduating from [[Radcliffe College]] in 1897 followed by two years at [[Johns Hopkin...
13: ...rted by a stipend from her brother Michael's business.
17: ...returned to France and volunteered to drive supplies to French hospitals; they were later honored by t...
19: ...eight, she had a large circle of friends and tirelessly promoted herself. Her judgments in literature ... - Nancy Harkness Love (1763 bytes)
1: ...] - [[October 22]], [[1976]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[aviator | pilot]] and squadron comma...
3: ...rted a flying school there. During and after her college education, she worked in various jobs in [[aviati...
5: ... a [[test pilot]] for [[Gwinn Air Car Company]], testing various aircraft modifications including the ...
7: ...ing division. She then convinced the division to establish the [[Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron]...
11: ...ican B-25 Mitchell]], and along with [[Betty Gillies]], a [[B-17]]. She was certified in 16 military ... - Edna St. Vincent Millay (2636 bytes)
1: ...also known for her unconventional and Bohemian lifestyle and her many love affairs with both men and w...
3: ...ength of it was awarded a scholarship to [[Vassar College]]. After her graduation in 1917, she moved to New...
7: ...r and took primary care of domestic responsibilities. They lived in Austerlitz, New York, at a farmhou...
13: Her best known poem might be "First Fig" (1920):
17: But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends-- - Bessie Coleman (4340 bytes)
1: ...e world. Ms. Coleman was married briefly to Charles Wilson Pankey.
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4: ... graduated from eighth grade and briefly attended college at Colored Agricultural and Normal University, Ok...
6: ...turning home from [[World War I]]. They told stories about flying in the war and Coleman started to fa...
8: ... of the Chicago Defender, and Jesse Binga, a real estate promoter. Coleman received financial backing ... - Sally Ride (1826 bytes)
1: ...Only two other women preceded her: [[Valentina Tereshkova]] ([[1963]]) and [[Svetlana Savitskaya]] ([[...
5: ...[[physics]] at the same institution, while doing research in [[astrophysics]], [[general relativity]],...
7: ...ecurity and Arms Control. Currently she is a professor of physics at the [[University of California, ...
9: ...ide is the only person to serve on both panels investigating Shuttle accidents, the [[STS-51-L|''Chall...
19: ...cs/StarChild/whos_who_level2/ride.html And an address if you want to write to her.] - Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
3: ...t in the [[Spacelab]] laboratory module. Jemison resigned from NASA in March 1993.
5: ...ell-versed in African and [[African-American Studies]] and is trained in [[dance]] and [[choreography]...
7: ...]] in West Africa. Returning to Los Angeles, she resumed her medical practice, working with CIGNA Heal...
9: Dr. Jemison, the youngest of three children, was born on [[October 17]], [...
11: ... camp. She completed her internship at [[Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center]] in 1982. - Ruth Benedict (3045 bytes)
3: ...- [[September 17]], [[1948]]) was an [[United States|American]] anthropologist.
5: ... York, New York|New York]]. She attended [[Vassar College]], graduating in 1909.
7: She entered graduate studies at [[Columbia University]] in [[1919]], studying ...
11: ...ar in every human society. (Her critics dismiss these patterns as a "tiny subset" of the whole.)
13: In 1936 she was appointed an [[associate professor]]. - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
2: ...e fine structures of [[coal]], [[DNA]] and [[viruses]].
5: ...helped settle Jewish refugees from Europe who had escaped the ''Nazis''.
8: ...helped spark the idea of high-strength carbon fibres and was the basis of her doctoral degree in physi...
9: ...hanging her mind and staying. Unfortunately, Jacques Mering, her mentor, had been unhappy about her de...
11: ==King's College London 1951-1953== - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1937 bytes)
5: ...nufactured synthetically; and also those of [[cholesterol]], [[lactoglobulin]], [[ferritin]], [[tobacc...
7: ...n [[1960]] she was appointed Wolfson Research Professor at the [[Royal Society]]. In [[1964]] she was...
9: ==References==
11: ...fessor Dorothy Hodgkin''. Oxford: The Clarendon Press.
13: ===Obituary notices=== - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
3: ...r in 1931; by [[1941]] she was an [[associate professor]].
5: In [[1943]] she joined the [[U.S. Naval Reserve]] and was assigned to work with [[Howard Aike...
7: ...[[1949]], Hopper became an employee of the [[J. Presper Eckert|Eckert]]-[[John Mauchly|Mauchly]] Compu...
9: ...lish rather than in [[machine code]] or in languages close to machine code, such as the [[assembler]]s...
12: Hopper retired from the Naval Reserve with the rank of Commander at the end of [[19... - Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
3: ...h; [[November 15]], [[1978]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[cultural anthropology|cultural anthr...
5: ...tor [[Ruth Benedict]], Mead concentrated her studies on problems of child rearing, personality, and cu...
7: ... ''Coming of Age in Samoa'' ([[1928]]), based on research she conducted as a graduate student, but her...
13: ... are universal, but what constitutes courtesy, modesty, good manners, and definite ethical standards i...
14: ...as felt that a study of the problems faced by adolescents in another culture would be illuminating. - Helen Sawyer Hogg (1921 bytes)
3: ...for her research into [[globular cluster]]s, but best remembered for her astronomy column, which ran f...
5: ...ceived her doctorate in [[1931]] from [[Radcliffe College]].
9: ...Louis Priestley) ([[1905]]–[[1988]]), a professor emeritus of English at the [[University of Tor...
21: ===Obituaries=== - Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
3: ...ames Franck. The couple moved to the [[United States]], Mayer's home country.
5: ...came a professor in [[Chicago]] at Sarah Lawrence College. Here she developed a model for the nuclear shell...
7: ...e Earth itself is spinning around the Sun. Maria described the idea elegantly:
9: ... waltzers. Suppose they go round the room in circles, each circle enclosed within another. Then imagin...
11: ...e Nobel Prize for [[Physics]] "for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure". Maria was qu... - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (3312 bytes)
5: ...allowed her to enter for the Licence of Apothecaries' Hall, which she obtained in [[1865]].
7: ...compatible with her principal work, and she soon resigned them.
9: ...n 1877. In 1897 Dr Garrett Anderson was elected president of the East Anglian branch of the [[British ...
11: ...ent for the admission of women to the medical profession, of which Dr Anderson was the indefatigable p...
13: Quick notes: - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
3: ...rse|nursing]]. Each year, the [[International Nurses Day]] is celebrated on her birth anniversary.
7: ...[[Parthenope]] for the old city that is now [[Naples]]). A brilliant and strong-willed woman, Florence...
9: ...amily in [[1845]], evoking intense anger and distress from her family, particularly her mother.
11: ...gaged the support of [[Charles Villiers]], then president of the [[Poor Law Board]]. This led to her ...
13: ... of medical care and by the commitment and practises of the sisters. - Jennie Kidd Trout (1706 bytes)
5: ...to]], later transferring to the [[Women's Medical College]] in [[Pennsylvania]], where she earned her M.D. ...
7: ...stitute was quite successful, later opening branches in [[Brantford, Ontario|Brantford]] and [[Hamilto...
9: ...later moved to [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]], [[California]], where she died in 1921. - Mary Edwards Walker (4835 bytes)
1: ...d was arrested for impersonating a man several times.]]
6: ...swego]], [[New York]], the daughter of Alvah and Vesta Walker, she believed the fashions of the day, w...
8: ... as female doctors were generally not trusted or respected at that time.
10: ...s an unpaid field surgeon near the Union front lines, including the [[Battle of Fredericksburg]] and i...
12: ...present her the medal, specifically for her services at the First Battle of Bull Run (Manassas).
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