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Rebecca Lukens

💰 Finance 💼 businesswoman

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Rebecca Lukens

💰 Finance 💼 businesswoman

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Born: 1794

Country: USA

Education: Quaker Boarding Schools

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Margaret Lumby

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Margaret Lumby

co-founder & CEO of ChloBisWater, working to develop energy-efficient water desalination technology & create energy while purifying water

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Florence Hope Luscomb

🔍 Architect 🔍 Suffragette

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Florence Hope Luscomb

🔍 Architect 🔍 Suffragette

Born: 1887

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Kelly Lyndgaard

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Kelly Lyndgaard

Kelly is the Founder and CEO of Unshattered - a 501c3 nonprofit social enterprise whose mission is to end the addiction relapse cycle through ethical, sustainable fashion. A physicist and engineer by training, now a nonprofit leader and thought-leader in the arena of post-addiction employment models.

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Beebe Steven Lynk

🔬 Chemistry

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Beebe Steven Lynk

🔬 Chemistry

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Born: 1872

Country: USA

Education: Lane College Teaching Degree 1892; University of West Tennessee Pharmaceutical Chemistry Degree 1903

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Wangari Maathai

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Wangari Maathai

2004 Nobel Peace Prize for her environmental work in Kenya; The Green Belt Movement has planted over 51 million trees in Kenya since its founding in 1977. founder of Green Belt Movement-began by planting 7 trees in Kenya to stop deforestation & help with soil erosion-have now planted over 30 million trees; Nobel Peace Prize 2004; believes in a woman's power to change this world for the better 1 tree at a time.

Born: 1940

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"Elizabeth ""Elsie"" Muriel Gregory" MacGill

⚛️ Aeronautical Engineering 🤖 Aircraft Design

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"Elizabeth ""Elsie"" Muriel Gregory" MacGill

⚛️ Aeronautical Engineering 🤖 Aircraft Design

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Born: 1905

Country: Canada

Education: University of Toronto BS Electrical engineering 1927; University of Michigan MS Aeronautical Engineering 1929; MIT Post Graduate studies 1932-1934

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Elizabeth J. Magie Phillips

🎨 Game designer ✍️ journalist

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Elizabeth J. Magie Phillips

🎨 Game designer ✍️ journalist

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Born: 1866

Country: USA

Education: nothing formal

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Anna Magrin

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Anna Magrin

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Mary Eliza Mahoney

⚕️ Nursing

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Mary Eliza Mahoney

⚕️ Nursing

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Born: 1845

Country: USA

Education: New England Hospital for Women & Children (now the Dimock community Health Center) 1879 Registered Nursing License

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Vivian Maier

🎨 Art - Photograhy

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Vivian Maier

🎨 Art - Photograhy

For much of her life, Vivian Maier was something of a mystery. Her photographic talent went largely unrecognized because she kept her work a secret from most of the people who knew her, including the New York and Chicago families she worked for as a live-in nanny and caregiver. Maier only printed a tiny fraction of the hundreds of thousands of images of bustling city life she snapped with her Rolleiflex and Leica cameras over some five decades, and showed them to almost no one, instead amassing boxes and boxes of negatives and unprocessed film. Her fame came about posthumously, and only because the contents of her Chicago storge lockers were sold off at auction in 2007, after she had stopped paying the rent.

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Sara A. Majetich

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Sara A. Majetich

Education: Princeton University; Columbia University; University of Georgia

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Shirley Mahaley Malcom

🔍 Zoology 🔍 Ecology

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Shirley Mahaley Malcom

🔍 Zoology 🔍 Ecology

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Born: 1946

Country: USA

Education: University of Washington BS Zoology; UCLA MS Zoology 1968; Pennsylvania State University PhD Ecology 1974

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Lucilla Mallory

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Lucilla Mallory

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Judy Malloy

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Judy Malloy

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Annie Minerva Turnbo Malone

⚕️ Health 🔍 Beauty

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Annie Minerva Turnbo Malone

⚕️ Health 🔍 Beauty

was an American businesswoman, inventor and philanthropist.[5][6] In the first three decades of the 20th century, she founded and developed a large and prominent commercial and educational enterprise centered on cosmetics for African-American women.. Patented the pressing iron and comb, sold under "Wonderful Hair Grower" and "Poro Company" name.

Born: 1869

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Nergis Malvalvala

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Nergis Malvalvala

astrophysicist known for her role in the 1st direct observation of gravitational waves in 2015; her experiments with laser cooling macroscopic objects have laid the groundwork for observing quantum behavior more easily

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Evelyn Brower Man

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Evelyn Brower Man

1 of the leading women in developing the 1st test to detect hormone levels in the thyroid gland

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Joy Mangano

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Joy Mangano

inventor of Miracle Mop, Huggable Hangers, Forever Fragrant (house odor neutralizer), Performance Platforms, SpinBall Wheel Luggage, Shades Readers, Comfort & Joy Textiles (bedding).

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Anna M. Mangin

🔬 Food Sciences

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Anna M. Mangin

🔬 Food Sciences

Born: 1854

Country: USA

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Wilma Mankiller

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Wilma Mankiller

Native American (Cherokee Nation) activist, social worker, community developer and the first woman elected to serve as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation. Born in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, she lived on her family's allotment in Adair County, Oklahoma, until the age of 11, when her family relocated to San Francisco as part of a federal government program to urbanize Native Americans. After high school, she married a well-to-do Ecuadorian and raised two daughters. Inspired by the social and political movements of the 1960s, Mankiller became involved in the Occupation of Alcatraz and later participated in the land and compensation struggles with the Pit River Tribe.

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Henrietta Mann

📚 Education - Curriculum Development

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Henrietta Mann

📚 Education - Curriculum Development

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Miriam Daniel Mann

🔭 Aerospace

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Miriam Daniel Mann

🔭 Aerospace

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Born: 1907

Country: USA

Education: Talladega College BS Chemistry & Mathematics 1930

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Marianne Roney Mantell

💼 Entrepreneur

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Marianne Roney Mantell

💼 Entrepreneur

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Born: 1929

Country: Germany

Education: Hunter Coller BA Greek

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Elisia Manuel

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Elisia Manuel

Country: USA

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Harriet Beecher Stowe Marble

🔍 Pharmacist

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Harriet Beecher Stowe Marble

🔍 Pharmacist

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Born: 1885

Country: USA

Education: Meharry Medical College BA Pharmacy 1906

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Margaret March-Mount

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Margaret March-Mount

began working in public relations for the US Forestry Service 1913

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Lynn Petra Margulis

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Lynn Petra Margulis

was an American evolutionary biologist, and was the primary modern proponent for the significance of symbiosis in evolution. Historian Jan Sapp has said that "Lynn Margulis's name is as synonymous with symbiosis as Charles Darwin's is with evolution."[5] In particular, Margulis transformed and fundamentally framed current understanding of the evolution of cells with nuclei –developed & popularized the use of methadone for heroin addiction

Born: 1938

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Stella Markova

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Stella Markova

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Lindsey Chen Marr

⚛️ Environmental Engineering

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Lindsey Chen Marr

⚛️ Environmental Engineering

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Phillippa Marrack

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Phillippa Marrack

with her husband John Kappler, Ellis Reinherz & james Allison discovered & isolated the T-cell receptor; foundational work on immunological tolerance

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Cora Bagley Marrett

🔍 Sociology

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Cora Bagley Marrett

🔍 Sociology

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Born: 1942

Country: USA

Education: Virginia Union University BA Sociology 1963; University of Wisconsin-Madison MS Sociology 1965, PhD Sociology 1968

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Brandeis Marshall

💻 Computer Science

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Brandeis Marshall

💻 Computer Science

Country: USA

Education: University of Rochester BS Computer Science 2000; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute MS Computer Science 2003 & PhD Computer Science 2007

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Maria Montoya Martinez

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Maria Montoya Martinez

Born: 1887

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Bridget "Biddy" Mason

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Bridget "Biddy" Mason

She used her freedom to become a licensed doctor’s assistant before eventually founding her own private practice as a nurse and midwife in Los Angeles. Through careful saving, she accumulated significant wealth, which she used to provide affordable housing, a daycare center, and disaster aid for the Black community around her. see https://shastascout.org/golden-ghosts-black-californians-remarkable-journeys-to-freedom-during-californias-gold-rush/

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Isabella Sybilla Righton Masters

💡 Inventor

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Isabella Sybilla Righton Masters

💡 Inventor

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Born: 1676

Country: Bermuda

Education: no formal

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Sarah Mather

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Sarah Mather

Sarah Mather, originally from Brooklyn, New York, is most known for her invention of the underwater telescope. Born Sarah Porter Stiman in 1796, she was married to Harlow Mather at age 23, in 1819. Several years later, in 1845, April 16th she received a patent for her innovation of the “submarine telescope and lamp”. Unfortunately, much of her personal life is unclear, but she was a mother. At the time of her invention’s patent, the U.S. was engaged in the Mexican-American War, but her work became most valuable in the time of the Civil War. With the beginning of submarine use in warfare, her invention and later improvements [[1]] significantly impacted the defeat of the Confederates [[2]]. She passed away in June 21st, 1868.

Born: 1796

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