Women and Men

CHRISTINE DE PIZAN

CHRISTINE DE PIZAN03-05-2012

(Venice 1362 - Poissy monastery about 1431)She is recognized as the first european writer and forerunner of feminism...


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LADY SARA LOUISA BLOMFIELD - Sitarih Khanum

LADY SARA LOUISA BLOMFIELD - Sitarih Khanum03-05-2012

(Ireland 1859 - 1939)She is considered one of the most prominent women of her epoch...


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WANGARI MUTA MAATHAI

WANGARI MUTA MAATHAI03-05-2012

(Ihithe, 1 April 1940 - Nairobi 25 September 2011, she belongs to the kikuyu ethnicity). She was an environmental, politician and biologist from Kenya...


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HEINRICH RUDOLF HERTZ

HEINRICH RUDOLF HERTZ03-05-2012

Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (Hamburg, February 22, 1857 - Bonn, 1 January 1894), the German physicist.
Thanks to an apparatus of his invention, the Hertz dipole, capable of emitting radio waves, he was able to prove the existence of electromagnetic waves;
That is why the international system of frequency is measured in hertz...


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LUDWIK LEJZE ZAMENHOF

LUDWIK LEJZE ZAMENHOF03-05-2012

Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof  (Bialystok, december 15, 1859 – Warsaw April 14, 1917), linguist, is the creator of Esperanto, the most successful constructed language designed for international communication. Oculist, soon after graduation from school he began to study medicine, first in Moscow, and later in Warsaw. In 1885, Zamenhof graduated from a university...


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