Forgotten women scientists (II): Ada Lovelace

Ada Lovelace was a famous mathematician.

She was born on 10th December 1815 in England. Her father, Lord Byron, was a famous poet and her mother, Anne Isabelle Milbanke, was a mathematician.

She married William King and they had 3 children.

She loved music, poetry, dancing and any form of arts in general. However, her mother wanted her to have a higher education in maths and science.

 

Ada Byron
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She lived in the UK and she worked with Charles Babbage, a famous mathematician. He invented a machine to perform complex mathematical calculations. Ada Lovelace completed his device inventing codes to handle letters,symbols and numbers, so she was considered the first computer programmer.

She died in London in 1852. In her honor a software was named Ada in 1979.

From http://www.famous-mathematicians.com/ada-lovelace/

 

Written by Andrea Otero, Rosalía Rivera and Antía Varela - 3rd A (9th grade)



 

 

Forgotten women scientists (I): Lise Meitner

Lise Meitner is a famous woman physicist who was born in Vienna in 1878. Her parents were Jewish and she had 7 brothers and sisters. As a child she was very good at science and math and she went to University where she studied physics.
 

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Meitner lived and worked in Austria, Germany, Sweden and UK. She worked with Otto Hahn for 30 years in Berlin. They both studied radioactivity and discovered the protactinium isotope. Later she became a physics professor at the University of Berlin, where she started her research on nuclear physics, discovering the nuclear fission in 1939. She carried out experiments on nuclear fission together with Hahn. He received the Physics Nobel Prize in 1944 for his scientific research into fission, but Meitner's research and discoveries were not recognised.

However, she received many different scientific awards and honors during her life.

She died in England in 1968 at the age of eighty-nine.

 

 

From http://famousfemalescientists.com/lise-meitner/

 

Written by Antía, Andrea and Rosalía - 3rd ESO (9th grade)