Includes Lise Meitner, Barbara McClintock, Rita Levi-Montallini, E. Margaret Burbidge, Katsuko Saruhashi, Rosalind Franklin, R. Rajalakshmi, Lydia Makhubu, Birute Galdikas and Kutlu Aslihan Yener.
Includes Lise Meitner, Barbara McClintock, Rita Levi-Montallini, E. Margaret Burbidge, Katsuko Saruhashi, Rosalind Franklin, R. Rajalakshmi, Lydia Makhubu, Birute Galdikas and Kutlu Aslihan Yener.
Recounts the life and accomplishments of the seventeenth-century English doctor who first discovered that blood circulates throughout the body, pumped by the heart.
Antoine Lavoisier is considered to be the father of modern chemistry. Using experiments and careful measurements, he created a system to help chemists understand how matter behaves. He discovered and named oxygen and hydrogen, and helped set up a system to classify these and other elements. Perhaps his most famous discovery is the role oxygen plays in combustion.