Hi everone, as you might know March is Women's History Month. Civil Rights Team is planning a series of announcements educating people on famous and influential women through out history. Is there any women who you think is very important and should be featured?
Marie Curie became well known in the science community for her research in radioactivity as well as for being the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. Growing up in a family that valued education, she went to Paris to study math, chemistry, and physics. After studying at the Sorbonne in 1891 she became the first woman to teach there. She eventually teamed up with Pierre Curie, studying radioactive content. They later found out that uranium ore contained higher levels of radioactivity than could be explained by uranium content alone. Shortly after, she discovered two highly radioactive elements, radium and polonium, winning the 1903 Nobel Prize for physics. A few years later she won the 1911 Nobel Prize for chemistry for isolating radiums chemical properties. Madame Curie then invented x-ray vans to help locate bullets and facilitate surgery in the field without moving the patient.
Harriet Tubman was an African American abolitionist, humanitarian, womens suffragist, and Union spy. After being born into slavery and escaping when she was 29, Tubman decided to immediately go back and rescue her family. As she was doing this she started rescuing other slaves eventually starting up the Underground Railroad. Later in 1850, after the United States Fugitive Slave Law, she guided fugitive slaves north into Canada. As the civil war was fought she worked as a cook and a nurse for the Union eventually becoming an armed scout and a spy which made her the first woman to lead an armed expedition.
