Thursday 9 February 2017

What's up?

A couple of weeks ago Duarte told us that he had seen a picture about María Wonenburguer not far away from where most of us live... I couldn't help checking and this is what I found
http://www.aelg.org/centro-documentacion/autores-as/maria-do-carme-kruckenberg/paratextos/637/nota-bio-bibliografica
It was not our María but I felt so curious about it that I checked and... guess what! Another Galician woman that I didn't know and who had done enough to have her own place in history. Do you know her? Click in the picture and here and you'll see.

And she is from Vigo!!

Have you found any other interesting issue related to what we are researching?
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17 comments:

  1. Paula Albizúa Simón9 February 2017 at 22:52

    Aletta Henriëtte Jacobs:
    Aletta Henriëtte Jacobs born on February 9, 1854, was a doctor of medicine, activist for the women's rights and the feminine suffrage and inventor Dutchwoman. It was born in the bosom of a Jewish family in Sappemeer, Groninga's province, in the north of the Netherlands. Beside being the first woman in being present at a Dutch university, as well as the first woman of his country in obtaining the title of doctor of medicine, one was an important wrestler for the women's rights, specially the right to vote and his reproductive rights, and realized important advances in the contraceptive methods and the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases.

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    1. Alejandra10 February 2017 at 01:20

      Thank you very much Paula!! I didn't know this woman either.

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  2. Paula Albizúa Simón9 February 2017 at 22:59

    I found this information today when I entered in google, because today would be celebrated her 163 anniversary.

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    1. Alejandra10 February 2017 at 01:22

      By the way Paula, did you know who María Kruckenberg was?

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  3. Paula Albizúa Simón10 February 2017 at 21:09

    The truth is that I didn´t know her name,but I investigated and now,I know that Maria Kruckenberg was a Galician writer born in Vigo.

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  4. Unknown12 February 2017 at 10:47

    I found in a book, a woman than I didn´t know her.
    She called Rosalind Franklin and she was a biophysics.
    She was the first woman in took a picture of a molecule of the ADN and she discovered the structure of the ADN.
    I don´t know more information about her.

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  5. Alejandra12 February 2017 at 23:01

    Excellent! I didn't know her either �� I have found a video about her which I think is very good.
    Check! https://youtu.be/TZUun93_V18

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  6. Unknown13 February 2017 at 19:28

    I saw the video. Thanks Alejandra :)

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  7. Paula Albizúa Simón6 March 2017 at 21:10

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  8. Paula Albizúa Simón6 March 2017 at 21:12

    Mary Jackson is one of Hidden Figures´s characters,let´s know something about her:
    Mary Winston Jackson was an African American mathematician and aerospace engineer at the N.A.S.A.She worked at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, for most of her career. She started as a computer at the segregated West Area Computing division.She took advanced engineering classes and in 1958 became NASA's first black female engineer.After 34 years at NASA, Jackson had earned the most senior engineering title available. She realized she could not earn further promotions without becoming a supervisor.

    You have more information in this link:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Jackson_(engineer)

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  9. Ale7 March 2017 at 20:34

    I have just found something really interesting. Have a look at it:
    http://www.rtve.es/noticias/20170306/valentina-tereshkova-primera-mujer-volo-espacio-cumple-80-anos/1499046.shtml

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  10. Paula Albizúa Simón8 March 2017 at 21:30

    The company of toys LEGO has announced that they will make the collection "Women of the NASA", an offer realized by the scientific editor Maia Weinstock to honour to five key figures in the history of the spatial North American agency.
    The initiative was included between twelve projects finalists of LEGO, on having had received more than ten thousand supports. The company has made clear in a communiqué that it has chosen Maia Weinstock's idea for her value inspirational on having recognized the work of five indispensable women in the history of the science.
    The project " Women of the NASA " honours five indispensable scientific ones for the spatial North American agency. The collection includes Margaret Hamilton, the investigator who directed the equipment who wrote the software of I approach of the missions Apollo, as they gather in Microserfs. The project also honours Sally Ride, the first American who travelled to the space, and Mae Jemison, the first Afro-American astronaut; Katherine Johnson whose fundamental contribution in the NASA was recognized also in the movie Hidden Figures. Johnson was the manager of calculating the path of the first spatial flight, the orbit of the mission determined Apollo 11 to the Moon and the return of the probe supported Apollo 13 the Earth.
    Finally,Nancy Grace Roman, a fundamental astronomer in the history of the NASA on having promoted the construction of the spatial telescope Hubble. Her work, like that of rest of women recognized now for LEGO,has been invisibility in many occasions through the fault of barriers as the ceiling of crystal and the commanding sexism in the science.
    There are more information in this page:
    http://www.nuevamujer.com/mujeres/actualidad/todos/lego-nasa-women-hace-un-homenaje-a-cinco-mujeres-importantes-de-la-nasa/2017-03-01/215031.ht

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    1. Alejandra9 March 2017 at 14:42

      This is really interesting!!! Thank you very much!!!

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  11. Paula Albizúa Simón8 March 2017 at 21:35

    Teresa Miras Portugal:
    María Teresa Miras Portugal is a scientific Spanish woman, professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of the Complutensian University of Madrid and chairwoman of the Royal National Academy of Chemist´s; this,turns her into the first woman in directing a Royal Academy.
    María Teresa was born in Carballiño, Orense, on February 19,1948. She studied chemist´s, firstly in Santiago de Compostela, to happen to finish these studies in the Complutensian University of Madrid with Extraordinary Prize and National Prize of the Master of Pharmacy in 1971.
    In 1975, she obtained the Doctorate in Pharmacy for the Complutensian University of Madrid. From 1982 she is a professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in the Universities of Oviedo, Murcia and Complutensian of Madrid. She has devoted to the investigation during more than 40 years.
    I found the name of this woman in the news, which they were saying that she is the first woman in directing a Royal Academy; and I looked for her in Internet:
    https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Teresa_Miras_Portugal

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    1. Alejandra9 March 2017 at 14:43

      Excellent work Paula! I didn't know Teresa Miras...

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  12. Alejandra9 March 2017 at 14:40

    And another one....
    http://www.lavozdegalicia.es/noticia/sociedad/2017/03/09/dias-perfectos/0003_201703E9P52991.htm

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