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| x Feminist Art Movement |
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The feminist art movement refers to the efforts and accomplishments of feminists internationally to make art that reflects women's lives and experiences, as well as to change the foundation for the production and reception of contemporary art. It...
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| x Ada Lovelace |
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Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (10 December 1815, London – 27 November 1852, Marylebone, London), born Augusta Ada Byron, was the only legitimate child of poet Lord Byron. She is widely known in modern times simply as Ada Lovelace.
She is...
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| x Mary Wollstonecraft |
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Mary Wollstonecraft (pronounced /ˈwʊlstənkrɑːft/; 27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was an eighteenth-century British writer, philosopher, and feminist. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the...
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| x Grace Hopper |
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Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper (December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist and United States Naval officer. A pioneer in the field, she was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, and she developed...
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| x Catherine Macaulay |
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Catharine Macaulay (born Catharine Sawbridge and, by the time of her death, Catharine Graham) (1731‑1791) was an English historian.
A daughter of John Sawbridge of Olantigh, a landed proprietor from Kent, she was an advocate of republicanism, and a...
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| x Elizabeth Montagu |
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Elizabeth Montagu (2 October 1718 – 25 August 1800) was a British social reformer, patron of the arts, hostess, literary critic, and writer who helped organize and lead the bluestocking society. Her parents were both from wealthy families with...
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| x Elizabeth Carter |
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Elizabeth Carter (December 16, 1717 – February 19, 1806) was a poet, classicist, writer and translator, and a prominent and learned member of the Bluestocking Circle.
Born in Deal, Kent, she was the daughter of a clergyman whose parish was in the...
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| x Angelica Kauffmann |
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Maria Anna Angelika/Angelica Katharina Kauffmann (October 30, 1741 – November 5, 1807) was a Swiss-Austrian neo classical painter.
She was born at Chur in Graubünden, Switzerland, but grew up in Schwarzenberg in Vorarlberg/Austria where her family...
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| x Anna Seward |
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Anna Seward (12 December 1747 – 25 March 1809) was an English poet, often called the Swan of Lichfield.
Seward was the elder daughter of Thomas Seward (1708-1790), prebendary of Lichfield and Salisbury, and author. Born at Eyam in Derbyshire, she...
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| x Hester Thrale |
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Hester Lynch Thrale (born Hester Lynch Salusbury and after her second marriage, Hester Lynch Piozzi ) (27 January 1741 [NS] – 2 May 1821) was a British diarist, author, and patron of the arts. Her diaries and correspondence are an important source...
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| x Ann Yearsley |
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Ann Yearsley née Cromartie (c. 1753 - 1806) was an English poet and writer.
Born in Bristol to John and Anne Cromartie (described as a milkwoman), Ann married John Yearsley, a yeoman, in 1774. A decade later the family were rescued from destitution...
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| x Mary Delany |
Mary Delany (nee Granville) (14 May 1700 – 15 April 1788) was an English Bluestocking, artist, and writer.
She was born at Coulston, Wiltshire, a niece of the 1st Lord Lansdowne. In February 1718 she was unhappily married to Alexander Pendarves, a...
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| x Judith Butler |
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Judith Butler (born February 24, 1956, Cleveland, Ohio) is an American post-structuralist philosopher, who has contributed to the fields of feminism, queer theory, political philosophy, and ethics. She is the Maxine Elliott professor in the...
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| x Griselda Pollock |
Griselda Pollock (born 1949) is a prominent art historian and cultural analyst, and a world-renowned scholar of international, post-colonial feminist studies in the visual arts. She is best known for her theoretical and methodological innovation,...
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| x Julia Kristeva |
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Julia Kristeva (Bulgarian: Юлия Кръстева) (born 24 June 1941) is a Bulgarian-French philosopher, literary critic, psychoanalyst, sociologist, feminist, and, most recently, novelist, who has lived in France since the mid-1960s. Kristeva became...
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| x Frances Reynolds |
Sister of the artist Sir Joshua Reynolds
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| x Fanny Burney |
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Frances Burney (13 June 1752 – 6 January 1840), also known as Fanny Burney and, after her marriage, as Madame d’Arblay, was an English novelist, diarist and playwright. She was born in King’s Lynn, England, on 13 June 1752, to musical historian Dr...
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| x Hannah More |
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Hannah More (2 February 1745 – 7 September 1833) was an English religious writer and philanthropist. She can be said to have made three reputations in the course of her long life: as a clever verse-writer and witty talker in the circle of Johnson,...
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| x Margaret Bentinck, Duchess of Portland |
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Margaret Cavendish Bentinck, Duchess of Portland (Welbeck Abbey, 11 February 1715 – 17 July 1785, Bulstrode Park, Buckinghamshire), styled Lady Margaret Harley before 1734, Duchess of Portland from 1734 to her husband's death in 1761, and Dowager...
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| x Annie Besant |
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Annie Wood Besant (pronounced /ˈbɛsənt/; Clapham, London October 1 , 1847 – September 20, 1933 in Adyar, India) was a prominent Theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator and supporter of Irish and Indian self rule.
In 197? she...
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| x Rosalind Franklin |
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Rosalind Elsie Franklin (25 July 1920 – 16 April 1958) was a British biophysicist, physicist, chemist, biologist and X-ray crystallographer who made contributions to the understanding of the fine molecular structures of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal and...
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| x Sophie Germain |
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Marie-Sophie Germain (April 1, 1776 – June 27, 1831) was a French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher. Despite initial opposition from her parents and difficulties presented by a gender-biased society, she gained an education from books in her...
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| x Millicent Fawcett |
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Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett GBE LLD (11 June 1847 – 5 August 1929) was an English suffragist (one who campaigned for women to have the vote) and an early feminist.
She was born Millicent Garrett in Aldeburgh, Suffolk. As a suffragist, as opposed...
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| x Marie Curie |
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Marie Skłodowska Curie (7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934) was a physicist and chemist of Polish upbringing and, subsequently, French citizenship. She was a pioneer in the field of radioactivity, the first person honored with two Nobel Prizes, receiving...
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| x Alice Walker |
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Alice Malsenior Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American author. She has written at length on issues of race and gender, and is most famous for the critically acclaimed novel The Color Purple for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.She...
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| x Maya Angelou |
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Maya Angelou (pronounced /ˈmaɪ.ə ˈændʒəloʊ/), born Marguerite Ann Johnson on April 4, 1928, is an American autobiographer and poet who has been called "America's most visible black female autobiographer" by scholar Joanne M. Braxton. She is best...
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| x Ayaan Hirsi Ali |
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali ( pronunciation (help·info); Somali: Ayaan Xirsi Cali; born Ayaan Hirsi Magan 13 November 1969 in Mogadishu, Somalia) is a Dutch intellectual, feminist activist, writer, and politician. She is the estranged daughter of the Somali...
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| x Kathleen Kenyon |
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Dame Kathleen Mary Kenyon (5 January 1906 – 24 August 1978), was a leading archaeologist of Neolithic culture in the Fertile Crescent. She is best known for her excavations in Jericho in 1952-1958.
Kathleen Kenyon was the eldest daughter of Sir...
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| x Gertrude Caton–Thompson |
Gertrude Caton-Thompson (1 February 1888 – 18 April 1985) was an influential English archaeologist at a time when participation by women in the discipline was uncommon.
Gertrude Caton-Thompson was born to William Caton-Thompson and Ethel Page in...
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| x Steve Shirley |
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Dame Stephanie "Steve" Shirley, DBE, FRA, FREng, FRSA (born September 16, 1933, Dortmund) is a British businesswoman and philanthropist. She originally arrived in Britain as an unaccompanied child refugee. She was placed with foster parents and...
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| x Shami Chakrabarti |
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Shami Chakrabarti CBE (born 16 June 1969, London), has been the director of Liberty, a British pressure group, since September 2003. Chakrabarti is the Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University.
After graduating from the London School of Economics...
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| x Sylvia Townsend Warner |
Sylvia Nora Townsend Warner (6 December 1893 - 1 May 1978) was an English novelist and poet.
Sylvia Townsend Warner was born at Harrow on the Hill, the only child of George Townsend Warner and his wife Eleanora (Nora) Hudleston. Her father was a...
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| x Valentine Ackland |
Valentine Ackland (20 May 1906 – 9 November 1969) was an English poet, an important figure in the emergence of modernism in twentieth-century British poetry.
Born Mary Kathleen Valentine Ackland and nicknamed Molly by her family, Ackland was the...
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| x Jessie Street |
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Born in Chota Nagpur, Bihar, India, Jessie Mary Grey Street (née Lillingston) (18 April 1889 - 2 July 1970) was an Australian suffragette, feminist and human rights campaigner.
She was a key figure in Australian political life for over 50 years,...
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| x Laura Bassi |
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Laura Maria Caterina Bassi (31 October 1711 – 20 February 1778) was an Italian scientist, the first woman to officially teach at a college in Europe.
Born in Bologna into a wealthy family with a lawyer as a father, she was privately educated and...
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| x Maria Gaetana Agnesi |
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Maria Gaetana Agnesi (May 16, 1718 – January 9, 1799) was an Italian linguist, mathematician, and philosopher. Agnesi (pronounced 'Anyesi') is credited with writing the first book discussing both differential and integral calculus. She was an...
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| x Maria Teresa Agnesi |
Maria Teresa Agnesi (October 17, 1720 – January 19, 1795) was an Italian composer. Though she was most famous for her compositions, she was also an accomplished harpsichordist and singer, and the majority of her surviving compositions were written...
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| x Émilie du Châtelet |
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Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise du Châtelet (December 17, 1706, Paris – September 10, 1749) was a French mathematician, physicist, and author during the Age of Enlightenment. Her crowning achievement is considered to be her...
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| x Dorothea Erxleben |
Dorothea Christiane Erxleben née Leporin (November 13, 1715 in Quedlinburg – June 13, 1762 in Quedlinburg) was the first female medical doctor in Germany.
Erxleben was instructed in medicine by her father from an early age. The Italian scientist...
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| x The Dinner Party |
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For other works with this title, see Dinner Party
The Dinner Party is an installation artwork by feminist artist Judy Chicago depicting place settings for 39 mythical and historical famous women. It was produced from 1974 to 1979 as a collaboration...
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| x Mary Hays |
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Mary Hays (1760 – 1843) was an English novelist and feminist.
Mary Hays was born in Southwark, London on Oct.13,1754. Almost nothing is known of her first 17 years. In 1779 she fell in love with John Eccles who lived on Gainsford Street, where she...
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| x Suzanne Curchod |
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Suzanne Curchod (1737 – 6 May 1794) was the wife of Jacques Necker. She hosted one of the most celebrated salons of the Ancien Régime.
Daughter of the pastor of the village of Crassier in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland, Suzanne was well educated...
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| x Louise d'Epinay |
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Louise Florence Pétronille Tardieu d'Esclavelles d'Épinay (March 11, 1726 – April 17, 1783) was a French writer known on account of her liaisons with Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, and her acquaintanceship with Denis...
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| x Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat-de-Courcelles |
Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, who on her marriage became Madame de Lambert, Marquise de Saint-Bris, and is generally known as the Marquise de Lambert, was born in Paris in 1647 and died in Paris 12 July 1733; she was a French writer and...
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| x Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanasyeva |
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Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanasyeva (Russian: Татьяна Алексеевна Афанасьева) (Kiev, 19 November 1876 – Leiden, 14 April 1964) was a Russian /Dutch mathematician. On 21 December 1904 she was married to Paul Ehrenfest (1880–1933) an Austrian physicist and...
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| x Tatyana Pavlovna Ehrenfest |
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Tatyana Pavlovna Ehrenfest, later van Aardenne-Ehrenfest, (Vienna, October 28, 1905 – Dordrecht, November 29, 1984) was a Dutch mathematician. She was the daughter of Paul Ehrenfest (1880 – 1933) and Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanasyeva (1876–1964)....
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| x Julia Margaret Cameron |
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Julia Margaret Cameron (11 June 1815 – 26 January 1879) was a British photographer. She became known for her portraits of celebrities of the time, and for Arthurian and similar legendary themed pictures.
Cameron's photographic career was short,...
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| x Hildegard of Bingen |
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Blessed Hildegard of Bingen (German: Hildegard von Bingen; Latin: Hildegardis Bingensis; 1098 – 17 September 1179), also known as Saint Hildegard, and Sybil of the Rhine, was a Christian mystic, German Benedictine abbess, author, counselor, linguist...
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| x Mary Agnes Chase |
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"Another woman who blows me away is Mary Agnes Chase (1869-1963), Smithsonian’s Custodian in Charge of the Herbarium at the U.S. National Museum. She was not only an eminent expert on grasses but also a suffragette. In fact, her political activities...
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| x Emmy Noether |
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Amalie Emmy Noether, German pronunciation: [ˈnøːtɐ], (23 March 1882 – 14 April 1935) was a German-born mathematician known for her groundbreaking contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics. Described by David Hilbert, Albert Einstein...
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| x Lise Meitner |
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Lise Meitner (7 or 17 November 1878 – 27 October 1968) was an Austrian-born, later Swedish physicist who worked on radioactivity and nuclear physics. Meitner was part of the team that discovered nuclear fission, an achievement for which her...
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| x Jocelyn Bell Burnell |
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Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell, DBE, FRS, FRAS (born Susan Jocelyn Bell on 15 July 1943), known as Jocelyn Bell Burnell, is a British astrophysicist who, as a postgraduate student, discovered the first radio pulsars with her thesis supervisor...
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| x Margaret Burbidge |
Eleanor Margaret Burbidge, née Peachey, FRS (born August 12, 1919 in Davenport) is an English astrophysicist, noted for original research and holding many administrative posts, including director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
During her career...
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| x Sofia Kovalevskaya |
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Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya (Russian: Со́фья Васи́льевна Ковале́вская) (15 January [O.S. 3 January] 1850 – 10 February [O.S. 29 January] 1891), was the first major Russian female mathematician, responsible for important original contributions to...
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| x Lisa Randall |
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Lisa Randall (born June 18, 1962) is an American theoretical physicist and a leading expert on particle physics and cosmology. She works on several of the competing models of string theory in the quest to explain the fabric of the universe. Her most...
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| x Jill Tarter |
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Jill Cornell Tarter (born 1944) is an American astronomer and the current director of the Center for SETI Research, holding the Bernard M. Oliver Chair for SETI at the SETI Institute.
Tarter received her undergraduate education at Cornell University...
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| x Maria Mitchell |
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Maria Mitchell (August 1, 1818 – June 28, 1889) was an American astronomer.
Maria Salmon Mitchell was born on August 1, 1818, in Nantucket, Massachusetts, and was a first cousin four times removed of Benjamin Franklin. She had nine brothers and...
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