DID YOU KNOW GENIUSES WOMEN IN ALL OVER THE WORLD , READ THIS
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"In 1936 Hedy Lamarr became the first woman to grace the silver screen in a feature film wearing nothing but her birthday suit. Five years later, at a Hollywood dinner party, she engaged in a passionate discussion with an avant-garde composer about protecting U.S. radio-guided torpedoes from enemy interference.
She scrawled her phone number in lipstick on the windshield of his car so they could develop their ideas further.
In 1942, unbeknownst to her adoring public, the unlikely duo secured a patent and gave it to the United States government for a "Secret Communications System" expressly constructed to assist in the defeat of Hitler.
The science presented in this patent serves as the basis for the technology we use today in cell phones, pagers, wireless Internet, defense satellites, and a plethora of other spread-spectrum devices."
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Favorite Quote from Hedy: American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook.
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Noether's Theorem is one of the most important observations in physics: every symmetry gives rise to a conservation law. The laws of conservation of momentum and energy, perhaps the two most fundamental laws in physics, can be derived from even more fundamental observations of pure mathematics, symmetry in space and symmetry in time. ("Symmetry" here means "independence": it doesn't matter if you shift your reference frame in time or space; the laws of physics remain the same.)
Noether's Theorem helped confirm the general theory of relativity, and it's a crucial tool in the toolbox of every working physicist. All by itself it's one of the most important contributions to science of the 20th century.
But it wasn't anywhere near her only work. She also made scores of major contributions to abstract algebra and set theory, perhaps the most important work since Galois and Gauss. At least a half-dozen different areas of algebra theory contain a "Noetherian" element (rings, modules, spaces, etc).
When she died, Albert Einstein wrote her obituary, calling her "the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began":
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Her work is often very abstruse, and so sadly she is not better known. Her work was positively groundbreaking.
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An English writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the analytical engine. Her notes on the engine include what is recognized as the first algorithm intended to be processed by a machine; as such she is sometimes considered the "World's First Computer Programmer".
Helen Keller
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She was the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.
Keller went on to become a world-famous speaker and author. She is remembered as an advocate for people with disabilities, amid numerous other causes. She was a suffragist, a pacifist, an opponent of Woodrow Wilson, a radical socialist and a birth control supporter. In 1915 she and George Kessler founded the Helen Keller International (HKI) organization. This organization is devoted to research in vision, health and nutrition. In 1920 she helped to found the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Keller traveled to 40 some-odd countries with Sullivan, making several trips to Japan and becoming a favorite of the Japanese people. Keller met every U.S. President from Grover Cleveland to Lyndon B. Johnson and was friends with many famous figures, including Alexander Graham Bell, Charlie Chaplin and Mark Twain. Keller and Mark Twain were both considered radicals at the beginning of the 20th century, and as a consequence, their political views have been forgotten or glossed over in popular perception.
Émilie du Châtelet
Scientific research and publications
Heat and light
In 1737, Châtelet published a paper entitled Dissertation sur la nature et la propagation du feu, based upon her research into the science of fire, that predicted what is today known as infrared radiation and the nature of light.
Institutions de Physique
Her book Institutions de Physique (“Lessons in Physics”) appeared in 1740; it was presented as a review of new ideas in science and philosophy to be studied by her thirteen-year-old son, but it incorporated and sought to reconcile complex ideas from the leading thinkers of the time.
Advocacy of kinetic energy
In it, she combined the theories of Gottfried Leibniz and the practical observations of Willem 's Gravesande to show that the energy of a moving object is proportional not to its velocity, as had previously been believed by Newton, Voltaire and others, but to the square of its velocity. (In classical physics, the correct formula is Ek = 1⁄2mv², where Ek is the kinetic energy of an object, m its mass and v its velocity.)
Translation and commentary on Newton's Principia
In 1749, the year of her death, she completed the work regarded as her outstanding achievement: her translation into French, with her commentary, of Newton’sPrincipia Mathematica, including her derivation of the notion of conservation of energy from its principles of mechanics. Published ten years after her death, today du Châtelet's translation of Principia Mathematica is still the standard translation of the work into French.
Development of financial derivatives
Much later in life, she once lost 84,000 francs (the equivalent of over US$1,000,000 in 2009)—some of it borrowed—in one evening at the table at the court of Fontainebleau, to card cheats. To quickly raise the money to pay back her huge debts, she devised an ingenious financing arrangement similar to modernderivatives, whereby she paid tax collectors a fairly low sum for the right to their future earnings (they were allowed to keep a portion of the taxes they collected for the King), and promised to pay the court gamblers part of these future earnings
Grace Hopper was one of the most accomplished women in computer science. She held a Ph.D. in mathematics and taught at Vassar until she joined the Navy during World War II. She served in the Naval Reserves for most of her life, eventually achieving the rank of Rear Admiral (lower half).
Perhaps her best-known contribution to computing was the invention of the compiler, the intermediate program that translates English language instructions into the language of the target computer. She did this, she said, because she was lazy and hoped that "the programmer may return to being a mathematician." Her work embodied or foreshadowed enormous numbers of developments that are now the bones of digital computing: subroutines, formula translation, relative addressing, the linking loader, code optimization, and even symbolic manipulation of the kind embodied in Mathematica and Maple.[1]
She was also known for her wit, as you can see in her appearance on Letterman:
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