1978 National Inventor of the Year (US) Barbara Askins waited until her children were in school to finish her chemistry Bachelors and Masters degrees, then went on to work for NASA, developing a new way to process film using radioactive materials. The astronomical and geological images she worked on held much more detail, making them significantly more valuable to scientists, and her process was also applied to x-rays and restoration of old photos.
Wendy Red Star is an Apsáalooke (Crow) artist who through her work explores themes of Native history, resistance, and cultural heritage.
War and Peace is known for its length, at 587,287 words. Sophia Tolstaya copied and edited it seven times by hand.
While Charles Eames was the public face of their architecture and furniture design partnership, he was always quick to acknowledge his wife, Ray, as an equal, or even superior, saying “Anything I can do, Ray can do better.”
Photojournalist and war correspondent
Pioneering ‘femail’ artist who gave men the Playboy treatment
Before Gerda Taro became the first woman photojournalist to die while covering a war on the front lines, she worked with her lover Endre Friedmann. Together they collaborated on work attributed to “Robert Capa,” an American persona intended to protect European Jewish artists from increasing political tensions on the continent in the 1930s
Sonia Boyce became the first woman of African descent to represent the U.K. at the Venice Biennale in 2022, the year she turned 60.
Canadian journalist, novelist, mountaineer, botanist, photographer and lecturer
1800s Micmac artist and artist’s model