Margherita Hack Born: June 12, 1922 Florence, Italy Known for: Astrophysicist and scientific disseminator. Margherita Hack was known as the "Lady of the Stars" and spent her long career as an astronomer who focused on stellar spectroscopy and radio astronomy. Along with over 200 scientific papers to her name,...
Happy Friday, everyone! It's Dr. Hinson back with my 5 Friyays. Dr. Donnelly is away on her holidays and I'm away next week, so it's a potted and quick Friyays for me - let's get going! Hail To The Queen of Jeopardy (for now) It amazes me...
Rachel Carson Born: May 27, 1907 Springdale, Pennsylvania, USA Known For: Marine biologist and conservationist. Rachel Carson is best known for the award-winning and policy-influencing book 'Silent Spring.' Born in a small town near Pittsburgh, PA, Carson grew up around nature and with a fascination for reading and writing....
Betty Williams Born: May 22, 1943 Belfast, Northern Ireland Known For: Co-Winner of Nobel Peace Prize After witnessing the death of 3 children in a shooting incident in Belfast in 1976, Betty started organizing a movement for peace during the height of the conflict in Northern Ireland. She eventually...
Isabella Tod Born: May 18, 1836 Edinburgh, Scotland Known For: Women's Rights Activist and Suffragette When I went to research Isabella Tod, a renowned women's rights activist in Northern Ireland, I found a wonderful short documentary made in 2013 by the BBC. Instead of writing a short blog in...
Tamara de Lempicka Born: May 16, 1898 Warsaw, Poland Known For: Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka lived a fascinating life, one that a short blog cannot hope to do justice to. Much like every other historical field, art history is dominated by stories of its famous male painters....
Hey, all! Similar to Dr. Donnelly last week, it's been a bit harder for me to write my Friyays today. It wasn't a very positive news week and so it took me longer than normal to find my list. There's a strong theme of telling...
For today's HBDLadies post, we've done something a bit different. To celebrate the birthday of Sophie Scholl - member of the White Rose resistance movement in Nazi Germany. I reviewed a documentary about the search for understanding the White Rose movement and it's legacy, as...
Elizabeth Jane Cochran "Nellie Bly" Born: May 5, 1864 Cochran's Mills, Pennsylvania, USA Known For: Investigative journalist and writer Nellie Bly is one of those famous names that many people know, but few people know the story behind. In celebrating her birthday with this blog, we wanted to shed...
Catherine II (Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst) Born: May 2, 1726 Stettin, Pomerania, Prussia (now Szczecin, Poland) Known For: Longest Serving Empress of Russia It's rare with our happy birthday cards when we go back in history further than the 19th century. But, when we spend so much time talking about...
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