Waris Dirie is a Somalian fashion model, author and women's rights activist known for her efforts to eradicate female genital mutilation (FGM). Dirie…
Coretta Scott King was an American civil rights activist who was the wife of Martin Luther King Jr. Coretta Scott King was born in Marion, Alabama, on…
Charles Albert Gobat was born in Tramelan, Switzerland as the son of a Protestant minister and the nephew of Samuel Gobat, a missionary who became the…
Widely referred to as the "Mother of the Nation," Albertina Sisulu was a prominent leader in the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa. Albertina…
Wangari Mathai was a Kenyan environmental and political activist who became the first African woman to win the Nobel Prize. Wangari Muta Mathai was born…
Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac was born on August 8, 1902, in Bristol, England, to Charles Adrien Ladislas Dirac and Florence Hannah Holten. His father…
Jeanne Martin Cisse was a Guinean diplomat who was the first woman appointed as a permanent representative to the United Nations. Jeanne Martin Cisse…
Max Born was born on December 11, 1882, in a Jewish family in Breslau, to Professor Gustav Born, an anatomist and embryologist, and his wife Margarete…
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