I’m researching famous women in history. Does anyone have any ideas? I’ve found Florence Nightingale, Anne Bradstreet, Anne Hutchinson, E Nesbit, George Eliot, Charlotte Bronte… Most of these are writers. I want to find someone who’s not as popular as people like Jane Austen, Cleopatra, and the queens of foreign countries. Doctors, nurses, writers… people who’ve made a lot of influence in history but who we don’t think of automatically. Please help! I’ll consider any suggestion.
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Alot of people don’t know the story behind Joan of Arc… oh yeah lol what about Oprah?!
Chiara R. Nappi is an Italian physicist. Her research areas have included mathematical physics, particle physics, and string theory.
As I am interested in time travel, particle analysis and string theory, Marietta Blau also comes to mind. CERN blows my mind.. ever heard of John Titor? read about him
You should look into the slave women some of them wrote poems to talk about what their orld was like. One african-American woman I can definitely tell you of is Ida B Wells that was her pen name. i think was the most influential of her gender, her ethnic background, and she lived and died in England. She was a mother and a wife too. I think she wrote a lot about what was happening to the Blacks in the south during the Reconstruction and a lot of publishers had trouble accepting her work because she was and African American Woman. You may also want to look at Edith Wharton, she was a writer, wrote the House of Mirth which was an expressionists view of American Society and Social status and the people who were the major symbols of wealth.
There were some interesting women in the Middle Ages who were philosophers, authors, poets, and composers. One was Hildegaard von Bingen (watch for different spellings).
Look for the CD on Sony entitled ‘Vision’.
Edith Wilson, Woodrow Wilson’s wife. When Wilson suffered a stroke and was incapacitated she took over his duties as president, many people have called her America’s first female president.
Do a search on Hypatia. She was a scientist/mathematician who worked on the planetary orbits during the 4th Century!!! She was lynched to death by an angry Christian mob because she was a pagan, free, thinking woman.
There was a film lately about her, called Agora but they chose to alter her gruesome death for marketing reasons…
Here’s some info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypatia