Herstory
- peacesareen
- Mar 7, 2021
- 1 min read
As a women's day special, here's a post dedicated to all the women left out of history books who could be inspiring young female minds to change the world but instead lie forgotten in dusty corners of public libraries. Thanks to the power of the internet, they are again brought to the limelight.
Ada lovelace (1815-1852) Regarded as the first computer programmer.

Mileva Marić (1875-1948) The second woman to finish a full program of study at the Department of Mathematics and Physics at Zurich Polytechnic, she was the first wife of Albert Einstein and is thought to have collaborated with him on his research which helped him win the Nobel prize in Theoretical Physics. Her name was kept off as a collaborator to help give Einstein the credibility he needed in the scientific community.

Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin (1900-1979) An astronomer and astrophysicist who proposed in her 1925 doctoral thesis that stars were composed primarily of hydrogen and helium. Her groundbreaking conclusion was initially rejected because it contradicted the scientific wisdom of the time, which held that there were no significant elemental differences between the Sun and Earth. Independent observations eventually proved she was correct. https://www.sciencefocus.com/space/cecilia-payne-gaposchkin-the-first-to-describe-what-stars-are-made-of/

Harriet Tubman (1822-1913) Considered the first African American woman to serve in the military, she helped as many as 70 people escape from slavery using the Underground Railroad as a conductor for approximately 13 missions after having escaped herself. During the American Civil War, she served as an armed scout and spy for the Union Army. In her later years, Tubman was an activist in the movement for women's suffrage.

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