1942-2019 Patricia Bath Did you know that eyesight is a basic human right? This was established by the American Institute for the Prevention of Blindness, co-founded in 1976 by Patricia Bath – the subject of this week’s painting. A pioneer in the field of cataract...
Hypatia was one of the most prominent mathematicians and astronomers of late antiquity. She was famous in her time and is considered to be the first woman mathematician (that we know about). Scholars traveled from around the world to learn mathematics and astronomy at...
DNA is our most fundamental understanding of ourselves – this is what we are. The person behind the first ever x-ray photograph of DNA and its structure is Rosalind Franklin. She was an English chemical scientist, specialising in X-ray crystallography and her work is...
1914-2000 Hedy Lamarr WIFI. It’s the basis of our lives today, but it all started with this woman, some 60 years ago, when Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil, invented what would today be the base of WIFI. During WWII they designed a communication system that would guide...
1923-2014 STEPHANIE KWOLEK It’s hard to quantify just how many lives have been saved and injuries prevented by high-strength industrial fibres. In 1965, Stephanie Kwolek’s extraordinary hard work paid her back with the serendipitous discovery of a new type of...
