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Susan La Flesche Picotte
b. 6-17-1865; Omaha Reservation, NE
d. 2-17-1932
Susan La Flesche Picotte was the first American Indian woman to become a physician in the US. She cared for both Indian and white patients, opening a hospital on the reservation in 1913. Her sister Susette LaFlesche was an artist and writer, their brother Francis was an anthropologist.
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Marie-Anne Pierette Lavoisier
b. 1-20-1758; Montbrison, Loire, France
d. 2-10-1836; Paris
Marie-Anne Pierette Lavoisier, artist and scientist, collaborated with her husband Antoine Lavoisier, considered ‘father of modern chemistry’ until his beheading in the French Revolution (for being a noble and tax collector, not a chemist). She continued a salon for scientists after the Terror.
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Mary Leakey
b. 2-6-1913; London, England
d. 12-9-1996; Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa
Archaeologist and anthropologist Mary Leakey worked much of her career at Olduvai Gorge finding tools and fossils of ancient hominines.
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Henrietta Swan Leavitt
b. 7-4-1868; Lancaster, MA
d. 12-12-1921
Astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt, a graduate of Radcliffe College, went to work in 1893 at the Harvard College Observatory as a “computer”, assigned to count images on photographic plates.
Her observations discovered “the period-luminosity relation of Cepheid variables that radically changed the theory of modern astronomy, an accomplishment for which she received almost no recognition during her lifetime”.
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Augusta Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace
b. 12-10-1815; London, England
d. 11-27-1852; Marylebone
Ada Lovelace was the only legitimate daughter of Lord Byron. She received early training as a mathematician and is considered to have written the first computer program in her correspondence with Charles Babbage about his early mechanical general-purpose computer, the analytical engine.
• Ada, Countess of Lovelace
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Shannon Lucid
b. 1-14-1943; Shanghai, China (grew up in Bethany, OK)
Biochemist Shannon Lucid was a member of first NASA astronaut class to include women (1978), and the only woman to be a mother at time of selection.
Dr. Lucid logged 5,354 hours (223 days) in space in five space flights: mission specialist on STS-51G (June 1985), STS-34 (October 1989), STS-43 (August 1991), STS-58 (October-November 1993), and as a Board Engineer 2 on Russia’s Space Station Mir (March 1996 aboard STS-76 and returning September 1996 aboard STS-79).
She was the first woman to hold an international record for the most flight hours in orbit (by any non-Russian), and she also held the record for the most flight hours in orbit by any woman in the world until June 2007.
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Eva C. E. Luckes
b. 7-8-1854; Newnham, Gloucestershire, England
d. 2-16-1919
Eva Charlotte Ellis Luckes introduced nurses training and programs to improve the nursing profession. She served as the Matron of the London Hospital for 39 years, 1880-1919.
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