Dorothy Crowfoot was born in Cairo on May 12th, 1910, and died 1994. She became interested in chemistry and in crystals at about the age of 10. Most of her childhood she spent with her sister at Geldeston in Norfolk, from where she went by day to the Sir John Leman school, Beccles, from 1921-28. Dorothy visited the Sudan as a girl in 1923. Dorothy was a british chemist who developed protein crystallography. She won the Nobel prize of chemistry in 1964.She became interested in chemistry and in crystals at about the age of 10. Dorothy Crowfoot were allowed to join the boys doing chemistry at school, with Miss Deeley as their teacher; by the end of her school career, she had decided to study chemistry and possibly biochemistry at university. She went to Oxford and Somerville College from 1928-32 and became devoted to Margery Fry, then Principal of the College. For a brief time during her first year, she combined archaeology and chemistry, analysing glass tesserae from Jerash. …show more content…
His health was too bad for active military service, so he continued throughout World War II, returning on weekends to Oxford, where his wife stayedworking on penicillin. They had three children, born in 1938, 1941, and 1946. Thomas Hodgkin subsequently spent extended periods of time in West Africa, where he was an enthusiastic supporter and chronicler of the emerging postcolonial states. Following an infection after the birth of her first child, Dorothy Hodgkin developed chronic rheumatoid arthritis at age 28. This left her hands swollen and distorted, yet she continued to carry out the delicate manipulations necessary to mount and photograph the tiny crystals, smaller than a grain of salt, that she used in her
Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune was a educator and activist. Mary McLeod was Born on July 10, 1875, in Mayesville, South Carolina. She was the last of seventeen children, and fortunately was born in freedom. When a school for black children opened the McLeod family had to make a decision. They only had enough money to send one child and McLeod was chosen.
Very little is known about Bertha Alice Graham Gifford. We know she was born Bertha Alice Williams to William and Matilda Williams, as one of ten children, in October 1872. Bertha was born in Grubville, Missouri, and later married Henry Graham in December 1894, in Hillsboro, Missouri. After Graham’s death, Bertha married Gene Gifford, a man who was ten years younger than her, in 1907, and they moved to Catawissa, Missouri. What is know about Bertha Gifford is the horrible acts she committed while living in Catawissa.
Bessie Vanbure was only 19 years old, and Bessie was a beloved Wife and Mother . Bessie died on July 11, 1835. She is from Los Angeles, CA and resided in Georgia with her family. She has 4 children, 2 boys and 2 beautiful girls. In she died with a massive heart attack.
Belle Boyd was a famous spy for the Southern army during the Civil War. She was born in May, 1844 in Virginia to a wealthy Southern family. Belle Boyd, or Maria Isabella Boyd began to stand up for the Confederates at age 17. She shot and killed a drunken Union soldier at that age, and thus began to gain notoriety. She often spied on the Union army camps, sometimes acting like a courier for the North.
To escape the abuse of her brother in law,she married Moses Williams at the age of 14. Her daughter A`Lelia,was born on June 6,1885. Her husband passed away two years later,so she and her daughter moved St.Louis. In St.Louis,she worked
Aunt Henrietta Jackson daughter of Fielding W Jackson and Elvira Ellis was born in January of 1878. Henrietta was about 11 or 12 when her father passed away leaving her mother to raise 7 children the 6 boys and Henrietta. She was charged with assisting her mom with the children as well as household chores, also learning how to work in the fields. Education was paramount in the Ellis-Jackson home and like her mother she too began a career as a school teacher at Poplar Hill School.
Mary Edwards Walker accomplished a variety of amusing and intelligent things during her lifetime. She first enrolled in the Syracuse College of Medicine. Although her father was the one encouraging these medical desires, Mary thrived in this specific school system. In the year of 1855 Mary graduated with a Doctorate degree in medicine. Her enthusiasm continued, along with the development of the rest of her life.
Ida Minerva Tarbell was born on November 5, 1857 in the Village of Hatch Hollow, Pennsylvania to Franklin Sumner Tarbell (1829-1905), a farmer, and Esther Ann McCullough (1830-1917), a school teacher. Tarbell went to elementary school in Titusville, Pennsylvania and subsequently attended Allegheny College (1876-1880) where she graduated, as the only woman in her class, with a degree in Biology (1880). She later taught a range of subjects including science, biology, geology, geometry, grammar, French, Greek, and Latin at Poland Union Seminary in Poland, Ohio. In 1883, feeling overworked and underpaid, Tarbell began working for Theodore L. Flood (1842-1915) at the Chautauguan Assembly Institute in Meadville Pennsylvania, which was dedicated to providing liberal adult education.
When she was born she had the name of Bessie Lee Pittman. She worked in a beauty school and at a doctor 's office as her jobs. While she was on a trip in Miami, Florida she attended a society dinner. She sat next to Floyd Odlum and after awhile they started to talk together. She married Oldum in 1936.
Dorothea Dix Dorothea Dix reformed the conditions of prisoners and the mentally ill. Dorothea had realized that a few prisoners weren't even guilty, they just had mental illnesses. Dorothea´s life work became telling the public about the conditions the inmates were in and also the mentally ill. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott Early on, Elizabeth and Lucrecia had organized a women's rights convention in Seneca Falls.
“And give up? Not on your life.” Nellie Bly retorted when told to give up her dream job of becoming a reporter. (The Adventures of Nellie Bly). Elizabeth Cochran (the name Nellie Bly was given at birth) was born on May 5, 1864, in Cochran Mills, Pennsylvania.
Susan B. Anthony (Susan Brownell Anthony) Susan B. Anthony was a prominent feminist author who started the movement of women’s suffrage and she was also the president of the National American Women Suffrage Association. Anthony was in favor of abolitionism as she was a fierce activist in the anti-slavery movement before the civil war. Susan Anthony was born on February 15, 1820, in Adams, Massachusetts, and before becoming a famous feminist figure, she worked as a teacher. Anthony grew up in a Quaker family that made her spend her time working on social causes. And her father was an owner of a local cotton mill.
Although some people might argue that Shirley Chisholm does not demonstrate leadership qualities, a closer examination proves that the former congresswoman was a strong leader because of her independence, perseverance,and willingness to take risks. Shirley Chisholm is a great leader because she blazed a trail by being the first African American Congresswoman. For example, “Chisholm indulged her maverick nature in a spectacular gesture. She became the first black woman to run for president” (Morin pg1).This proves that she was the first black individual in her field to run for president so this makes her a trailblazer because all leaders should possess this for the reason that no leader can lead from behind.
Katherine Dunham was a revolutionary African American anthropologist, choreographer and dancer of the twentieth century. Dunham was born on June 22, to an African American father and a French Canadian mother in Chicago 1909. In her early life, Dunham pursued and earned her bachelor, master and doctoral degrees in anthropology while pursuing dance as a topic of interest at the University of Chicago. She originally attended college at the request of her family, whom persuaded her into a teaching career. She later, became the first African American women to attend and earn these degrees at the school.