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Rebecca Lan

South African social researcher and activist

Sadie Forman

A fierce non-sectarian and advocate for racial equality and women’s rights in South Africa

Rica Hodgson

Rica Hodgson devoted her life to the struggle for democracy in South Africa

Sonia Bunting

South African journalist and anti-apartheid activist

Christine Costner Sizemore

Mental health advocate on whom the Three Faces of Eve, both a best-selling book and a major motion picture, is based

Marion Rice Hart

The first woman to graduate in chemical engineering who went on to work in physics and geology as well as a career as an aviator

In 1794 she published her “Essay on Combustion”, from which it is now possible to credit her with describing the process of catalysis, albeit without that term. She did hundreds of experiments to try to find a way to dye cloth with gold or other metals.