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John Dalton
Mary Daly
Jacques d'Amboise

Alexandra Danilova
Emily Davies
Robertson Davies

John Dalton
b. 9-6-1766; Cumbria, England
d. 7-27-1844

John Dalton, chemist and physicist, is best known for his advocacy of the atomic theory, his research into colour blindness (sometimes referred to as Daltonism), and the 200,000 meteorological observations he kept for 57 years, beginning in 1787. He also taught mathematics and chemistry.

John Dalton quote ~
• “Matter, though divisible in an extreme degree, is nevertheless not infinitely divisible. That is, there must be some point beyond which we cannot go in the division of matter. ... I have chosen the word “atom” to signify these ultimate particles.”

• John Dalton and the Atomic Theory
• Dalton in Periodic Table poster

Mary Daly
b. 10-16-1928; Schenectady, NY

Radical feminist philosopher, theologian, and author of The Church and the Second Sex Mary Daly taught at Boston College for 33 years.

She ‘retired’ from the Jesuit-run institution in 1999 after refusing to allow male students in her Women's Studies classroom.

Mary Daly quotes ~
• “It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.”
• “Courage is like – it's a habitus, a habit, a virtue: you get it by courageous acts. It's like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging.”
• “Work is a substitute "religious" experience for many workaholics.”
• “Tokenism does not change stereotypes of social systems but works to preserve them, since it dulls the revolutionary impulse.”

Jacques d'Amboise,
née Joseph Jacques Ahearn
b. 7-28-1934; Dedham, MA

Jacques D'Amboise, a principal dancer with the NYC Ballet and performer in musical films Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and Carousel, founded National Dance Institute which has been teaching school children how to dance since 1976. FYI - Who's Dancin' Now? is a documentary film about Jacques d'Amboise and National Dance Institute.

Alexandra Danilova in Swan Lake Photograph Print

Alexandra Danilova
b. 11-20-1903; Peterhof, Russia
d. 7-13-1997

Prima ballerina Aleksandra Dionisyevna Danilova left Russia with George Balanchine in 1924, performing with Serge Diaghilev eventually becoming a US citizen. She danced in the 1958 Broadway musical comedy “Oh, Captain!”, and was a teacher at the School of American Ballet.

• Choura: The Memoirs of Alexandra Danilova

Emily Davies
b. 4-22-1830; Southampton, England
d. 7-13-1921

Sarah Emily Davies was a feminist, suffragist and a pioneering campaigner for women's rights to university access. She led the founding of Girton College in 1869, Britain's first women's college, which later became associated with Cambridge.

Robertson Davies
b. 6-7-1913; Thamesville, Ontario, Canada
d. 12-2-1995; Orangeville, Ont

Author, journalist, and professor Robertson Davies is best known for his The Deptford Trilogy, three related novels drawing on Jungian psychology and Davies' love of myth and magic.

Angela Davis
b. 1-26-1944; Birmingham, AL

Political activist, educator and author Angela Davis is associated with the civil rights movement, the Black Panther Party and the Communist Party USA, focusing on the abolition of the prison-industrial complex.

Davis was the head of the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, the former director of the university's Feminist Studies department, and currently a Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Women's and Gender Studies Department at Syracuse University.

Angela Davis was influenced by Hertbert Marcuse.

Katherine Kennicott Davis
b. 6-25-1892; St. Joseph, MO
d. 4-20-1980; Littleton, MA

Composer, pianist and music teacher Katherine Kennicott Davis is most noted for the Christmas song “The Little Drummer Boy” (1941) and the Thanksgiving hymn “Let All Things Now Living”, written for her school choirs. She willed the proceeds from her works to the Wellesley College Music Department.

Richard Dawkins
b. 3-26-1941; Nairobi, Kenya

Richard Dawkins is an evolutionary biologist, ethologist (studies animal behavior), author and advocate of Charles Darwin. He has taught zoology at the University of California at Berkeley and at Oxford University and is now the Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford.

Dawkins introduced the term “meme”, an “idea, behavior or style that spreads from person to person within a culture”, in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene. Genes transmit biological information.