Women we admire (Plus 1 - T/T) by Bianca Saburi https://padlet.com/bianca_saburi/womenweadmireplus1 On the International Women’s Day, let’s celebrate powerful and inspiring women as well as their achievements in History, Science, Arts, Sports, Education, Technology and so on. en-us 2018-03-08 17:00:17 UTC 2025-10-25 19:16:47 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Lightdecrease.png Marie Curie (1867-1934) bianca_saburi https://padlet.com/bianca_saburi/womenweadmireplus1/wish/239775450 She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. In 1903, she shared the Nobel Prize for Physics with French physicist Henri Becquerel and her husband, Pierre Curie, for their work on radioactivity. Her name was initially left off the winners’ list but Pierre insisted she be included.
Becquerel inspired the Curies to investigate radioactivity after its discovery in 1896. They examined a mineral called pitchblende and eventually found two radioactive elements – radium and polonium. Curie named polonium after her home country, Poland.
In 1911, a few years after her husband’s death, she was awarded the Chemistry Prize – becoming the first person to win two Nobels.
She died in 1934 from leukaemia, believed to have been caused by exposure to radiation from her research.]]> 2018-03-08 17:00:17 UTC https://padlet.com/bianca_saburi/womenweadmireplus1/wish/239775450 VIOLA "GODESS" DAVIS https://padlet.com/bianca_saburi/womenweadmireplus1/wish/239947075 Viola Davis (born August 11, 1965) is an American actress, producer, activist, and humanitarian. She was the first African-American actress to be nominated for three Academy Awards, winning one, and is the only black actress to date to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting.

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#IngrydSantana]]> 2018-03-08 22:23:44 UTC https://padlet.com/bianca_saburi/womenweadmireplus1/wish/239947075 Oprah Winfrey https://padlet.com/bianca_saburi/womenweadmireplus1/wish/239947687 Oprah Winfrey was born in the rural town of Kosciusko, Mississippi, on January 29, 1954. In 1976, Winfrey moved to Baltimore, where she hosted a hit television chat show, People Are Talking. Afterward, she was recruited by a Chicago TV station to host her own morning show. She later became the host of her own, wildly popular program, The Oprah Winfrey Show, which aired for 25 seasons, from 1986 to 2011. That same year, Winfrey launched her own TV network, the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN).

Luana Pereira ]]> 2018-03-08 22:26:29 UTC https://padlet.com/bianca_saburi/womenweadmireplus1/wish/239947687 Margaret Heafield Hamilton (born Heafield on August 17, 1936) is an American computer scientist, systems engineer, and business owner. She was Director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which developed on-board flight software for the Apollo space program. In 1986, she became the founder and CEO of Hamilton Technologies, Inc., in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The company was developed around the Universal Systems Language based on her paradigm of Development Before the Fact (DBTF) for systems and software design. https://padlet.com/bianca_saburi/womenweadmireplus1/wish/239948063 Patrícia Dantas Clementino ]]> 2018-03-08 22:28:06 UTC https://padlet.com/bianca_saburi/womenweadmireplus1/wish/239948063 Elizabeth I: https://padlet.com/bianca_saburi/womenweadmireplus1/wish/239959385
(1558–1603)
Queen of England when England became a major European power in politics, commerce, and the arts. Smart, brave, and determined to link herself to her country’s fortunes, she cultivated the loyalty of her people and united the country against enemies. During her reign — the "Elizabethan Age" — England changed from being poor and isolated to being among the most important nations in Europe, with a powerful navy. 

-Ana Beatriz Simões ]]> 2018-03-08 23:22:18 UTC https://padlet.com/bianca_saburi/womenweadmireplus1/wish/239959385 Amelia in the Sky https://padlet.com/bianca_saburi/womenweadmireplus1/wish/239969941 Amelia Mary Earhart (born July 24, 1897; disappeared July 2, 1937) was an American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart Was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. Sher received. Distinguished Flying Cross For this accomplishment. Sheset many other records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experience instrumental  in the information of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots. In 1935, Earhart became a visiting faculty member at Purdue University as an advisor to aeronautical engineering and a career counselor to women students. She was also a member of the National Woman's Party and an early supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment.
During an attempt to make a circumnavigational flight of the globe in 1937 in a Purdue-funded Lockheed Model 10-E Electra, Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island. Fascination with her life, career and disappearance continues to this day.
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]]> 2018-03-09 00:29:15 UTC https://padlet.com/bianca_saburi/womenweadmireplus1/wish/239969941 Dandara dos Palmares https://padlet.com/bianca_saburi/womenweadmireplus1/wish/239986509 Just few people know her. She was the wife of Zumbi dos Palmares and fought alongside him for the liberation of slaves in the colonial period. Her story is surrounded by mysteries, but it is known that she did not flee from a fight, she played capoeira, she knew how to handle guns and she hunted very well. She had commited 🤬 in 1694, along with several other quilombolas, during the taking of Palmares.
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]]> 2018-03-09 01:51:16 UTC https://padlet.com/bianca_saburi/womenweadmireplus1/wish/239986509 Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin OM FRS FRIC (12 May 1910 – 29 July 1994) was a British chemist who developed protein crystallography, for which she won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964. bianca_saburi https://padlet.com/bianca_saburi/womenweadmireplus1/wish/240098577 She advanced the technique of X-ray crystallography, a method used to determine the three-dimensional structures of crystals. Among her most influential discoveries are the confirmation of the structure of penicillin as previously surmised by Edward Abraham and Ernst Boris Chain, and the structure of vitamin B12, for which she became the third woman to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
In 1969, after 35 years of work, Hodgkin was able to decipher the structure of insulin. X-ray crystallography became a widely used tool and was critical in later determining the structures of many biological molecules where knowledge of structure is critical to an understanding of function. She is regarded as one of the pioneer scientists in the field of X-ray crystallography studies of biomolecules.
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