Selina Seixas Solomons
Selina Seixas Solomons dedicated her life to women’s suffrage and was a key player in California granting women the right to vote in 1911.
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Wanda Landowska
Wanda Aleksandra Landowska was a Polish harpsichordist and pianist whose performances, teaching, writings and especially her many recordings helped revitalize the popularity of the harpsichord in the early 1900s.
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Italian neurobiologist who won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of nerve growth factor (NGF).
Dr Marietta Blau
Dr. Marietta Blau was an Austrian physicist who did pioneering work with the pion, a subatomic particle that is made up of quarks and antiquarks. Even though Dr. Erwin Schrodinger nominated Blau and her colleague Dr. Hertha Wambacher, for the Nobel Prize, the committee instead, awarded the prize to Dr. Cecil Powell for work that utilized Dr. Blau’s discoveries.
Lera Boroditsky
Lera Boroditsky is a cognitive scientist and professor in the areas of language and cognition.