On the occasion of International Women's Day we highlight the figure of women who, have made history throughout these 100 years. Medicine, literature, science, technology and many have been (and they are) the areas in which women stand out. names like, Marie Curie, Valentina Tereshkova, Virginia Woolf, Martha Coston and many more, They have fought to get a prominent space in a world that seemed to be dominated by men.
Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in history to travel to space and the only one to do so alone, aboard the Vostok 6 in 1963. It was part of a study that sought to answer the question of whether women offered the same physical and mental resistance in space as men.. The conclusion after the three days that the extraterrestrial journey lasted was affirmative..
Margaret Knight, who designed the bags, currently known as ecological, supermarket. She invented a machine to cut and glue square bases to bags..
Amelia Earhart, in addition to having been one of the pioneers in aviation in the United States, Earhart was the first female pilot to cross the Atlantic Ocean alone..
Gertrude B. Elion, Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1988, his medications made organ transplantation possible. His pills transformed childhood leukemia , that was fatal, in a disease that today survives 80% of the victims.
Lisa Meirner, physicist who dedicated her career to researching radioactivity and nuclear physics. On 1938 first articulated the idea of nuclear fission that would later lead to the atomic bomb. The periodic table did not forget to pay tribute to him even if it was five decades later. El meitnerio (formerly called unnilennio) received that name in 1994 to honor physics.
For all of them and the infinite list of female names that, They are part of history and are present today.
