Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi was an American physician and writer. All her life, she fought for the education of women. Thanks to her, many female students were able to enter university, a field that was previously reserved for men. […]
A friend of Einstein and the source of many great theorems, Emmy Noether is a mathematician who became famous only after her death. Her research work has left its mark on the history of mathematics, and her life’s journey in a male-dominated world is worth a visit. […]
A very fast succession of images gives the impression of continuous movement, like in cartoons. It works thanks to a phenomenon called the retinal persistence. It was the Brussels native Joseph Plateau who discovered it and created the first phenakistiscope. […]
Louise Bourgeois, also known as La Boursier, is a French midwife and the first to write a book on problems related to childbirth. […]
Marie Sklodowska-Curie, better known as Marie Curie, is the most famous scientist. Physicist and chemist of Polish origin, she is naturalized French. To date, she is the only woman to have received two Nobel prizes for her work on natural radioactivity. […]
Barbara McClintock is a famous American geneticist. Certainly one of the brightest in the 20th century. […]
Cecilia Payne-Gaposhckin is an Anglo-American astronomer. She is one of the first astronomers to demonstrate that the composition of stars is primarily made of hydrogen and helium. […]
Émilie du Châtelet is the first learned woman in the history of modern science. […]
Isaac Newton, the famous English physicist who developed the theory of universal gravitation, was also confined 3 centuries earlier. London was then hit by the Great Plague. When he was a student, the University of Cambridge sent the students home to comply with the rules of confinement, as today we have to do with the Coronavirus. This genius knew how to use his time to develop his theories in optics and solve mathematical problems. […]
Belgium is the country of chocolate. The whole world knows it! But what people don’t know is that before it was a praline, chocolate was used to make drugs taste better. So it wasn’t in a chocolate factory that it all started, but in a pharmacy in Brussels, where we sold drugs to treat people. […]
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