From a young age, Montessori broke barriers when she enrolled in classes at an all-boys technical school wanting to become an engineer.

Born in Chautauqua County, New York, Parker grew up assisting her father, the first president of the Society for American Archaeology.

Halet Çambel was born in Berlin, and grew up visiting the historic sites of Istanbul on school trips and performing fencing.

“I counted everything: the steps, the dishes, the stars in the sky” - Katherine Johnson, talking about her childhood.

Hazen is co-inventor, along with Rachel Fuller Brown, of the early antibiotic and anti-fungal Nystatin.

Whiting graduated from Ingham university in 1865. She was appointed the first professor of physics at Wellesley College.

A century ago, the Okjökull glacier covered 15 sq km (5.8 sq miles) of mountainside in western Iceland and measured 50 metres thick, but it

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