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Corazon Aquino

María Corazón Cojuangco-Aquino (b. 1933 -1 August, 2009), was the 11th President of the , serving from 1986 to 1992. She was the first female President of the Philippines and was Asia’s first female President. Table of Contents 1 Early Life and Education 2 Marriage to Benigno Aquino, Jr. and Political life 3 Presidency 1986-1992 […]

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Aung San Suu Kyi

Aung San Suu Kyi (1945 – ) is a pro-democracy actiist and leader of the National League for Democracy in , a prisoner of conscience and advocate of nonviolent resistance. She is currently under detention, with the Myanmar junta repeatedly extending her detention. According to the results of the 1990 general election, Suu Kyi earned […]

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Amelie Noether

Amalie Emmy Noether was born on 23 March 1882 in Erlangen, . She was a mathematician known for her groundbreaking contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics, and was described by Albert Einstein and others as the most important woman in the history of mathematics. Table of Contents 1 Education 2 Career 1908-1920 3 Work […]

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Amartya Sen

Amartya Kumar Sen CH (Hon) (born 3 November 1933), is a Bengali Indian economist, philosopher, and a winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998, “for his contributions to welfare economics” for his work on famine, human development theory, welfare economics, the underlying mechanisms of poverty, and political liberalism. Table of Contents […]

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Albert Cashier

Albert D. J Cashier lived from December 25, 1843 to October 10, 1915. Cashier was a , born Jennie Irene Hodgers in Ireland.Spalding, Peg. “Union Maid”. http://history.alliancelibrarysystem.com/IllinoisAlive/files/iv/htm2/ivtxt018.cfm. Retrieved 2007-12-13. Table of Contents 1 Early Life 2 Army 3 Post-Army 4 Death 5 References 6 See Also Early Life Cashier was born in Clogherhead, County Louth, […]

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Ada Lovelace, the first computer programmer

Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (10 December 1815, London – 27 November 1852, Marylebone, London) was the only legitimate child of George Gordon Byron, the famous poet. She is widely known as Ada Lovelace. She is now famously described as the “first programmer”. Table of Contents 1 Early Life and Education 2 Marriage 3 […]

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Violeta Chamorro

Violeta Barrios Torres de Chamorro (born October 18, 1929) is a political leader, former president and publisher. Chamorro was the first, and to date only, woman to hold that position in Nicaragua, and furthermore was the first elected female head of government in Latin America and the second North American woman president, (following only Ertha […]

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Vrinda Nabar

Vrinda Nabar (born 1948) studied at the Universities of Bombay (Mumbai, India) and Oxford. Her doctoral and postdoctoral work has dealt with postcolonial and women’s issues and she has published widely in these areas. She has written regularly for Indian newspapers, and has presented programmes on radio and television. Her publications include Caste as Women […]

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Virginia Woolf

Adeline Virginia Woolf (née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English novelist and essayist, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. She wrote often on the inequalities and discrimination women face, most famously in the essay A Room of One’s Own (1929) and in Orlando […]

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Vera Rubin

Vera Rubin (1928- ) is an astronomer who has done pioneering work on galaxy rotation rates. Her contribution to astronomy  was the discovery of the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, by studying galactic rotation curves. Rubin is currently a research astronomer at the Carnegie Institution of Washington. She […]

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