In August 1940, the head of the British codebreakers wrote a report ranking Margaret Rock as…
Kategoria: Forgotten Women
Who Was Gerda Taro? Pioneering Female War Photographer
In 2008, sensational news broke about the discovery in Mexico of several cardboard boxes containing around…
Henriette d’Angeville. A Pioneer of Women’s Alpinism
In September 1838, forty-four-year-old aristocrat Henriette d’Angeville stood atop Mont Blanc as the second woman in…
Andromachi Papanikolaou. Woman who saved millions of lives
Medical history knows many examples of scientists conducting experiments on their own bodies. Less often, however,…
Maria Anna of Austria. Governor of Austrian Netherlands
Maria Anna of Austria was born in 1718 as the daughter of Emperor Charles VI of…
Anna Maria van Schurman. Icon of women’s emancipation
In the mid-17th century in Protestant Holland, women had no access to university education. However, in…
Fatemeh Hamami. An Artist Unstoppable by Disability
Fatemeh Hammami Nasrabadi came into the world on February 1, 1989, as the second of twin…
Eunice Newton Foote. A Forgotten Scientist
On a summer day in 1856 in Albany, New York, the tenth annual conference of the…
Mrs. Röntgen’s hand. The first X-ray image in history
In late autumn of 1895, German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen conducted a series of experiments with a…
Masha and Dasha: The Tragic Story
Maria and Daria Krivoshlyapova, known as Masha and Dasha, came into the world on January 3,…