21 th century woman
Aziza Abdel-Halim
Nicole Capitaine
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| Born | March 14, 1948 |
| Nationality | French |
| Citizenship | French |
| Alma mater | Pierre and Marie Curie University |
| Known for | International expert in astrometry and associated standards |
| Awards | Descartes Prize, Struve Medal |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Astronomy |
| Institutions | Paris Observatory |
Rehema Ellis
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| Born |
North Carolina, United States
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| Alma mater | Simmons College and Columbia Graduate School of Journalism |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Employer | NBC News |
Notable credit(s)
| NBC News correspondent (since 1994) NBC News lead education correspondent (since 2010) |
Kary Fajer (born 23 June 1953, in Mexico D.F., Mexico), is a Mexican writer. She has made her career in the Mexican television.[1] She is well known for writing of telenovelas for the producer Nicandro Díaz González.
Deb Gardner (born May 13, 1949) is a County Commissioner of Boulder County in the U.S. state of Colorado.[1] She was elected in January 2012 as a Democrat to fill the seat vacated by Ben Pearlman.
Prior to her service on the Board of County Commissioners, Gardner served as a Colorado legislator. She was elected to the Colorado House of Representatives in 2010 to represent House District 11,[2] which includes Northwest Boulder, part of Niwot, Waterstone, part of Gunbarrel, and most of Longmont which is where Gardner lives in Boulder County.[3] In that election, Gardner defeated Republican Wes Whiteley 59.4 to 40.5 percent.
Jane Glazebrook
Jane Glazebrook is an American botanist known for her work on understanding plant defenses against pathogens and increasing crop yields. She received her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1991 and is now a Professor of Plant Biology at the University of Minnesota. She was the editor-in-chief of the journal Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions.[1][2] She is married to Fumiaki Katagiri, who also works at the University of Minnesota as a Professor of Plant Biology.[3]
Glazebrook's research focuses on defenses of plants against pathogens. Her lab especially works with the plant Arabidopsis thaliana and the pathogens Pseudomonas syringae and Alternaria brassicicola.[4]
Mary Handen
Mary Handen is a businesswoman from Papua New Guinea. In 2009 she won the Private Sector Award in the 2009 Westpac Outstanding Women awards in Papua New Guinea.[1]
Isabel Hubard Escalera
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| Born |
Isabel Alicia Hubard
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| Nationality | Mexican |
| Occupation | Mathematician |
| Known for | Studies of symmetries of combinatorial objects |
| Awards | L'Oréal-UNESCO-AMC Fellowship in the area of Exact Sciences, 2012 Kovalevskaia Fund Prize, 2010 |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | York University (Doctoral). School of Sciences, UNAM (Undergraduate). |
| Thesis | 'From geometry to groups and back: the study of highly symmetric polytopes (2008) |
| Doctoral advisor | Asia Ivić Weiss |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Institute of Mathematics, UNAM |
| Website | http://www.matem.unam.mx/fsd/hubard |
Aliaa Magda Elmahdy
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Stencil graffiti depicting Elmahdy, in the form of the nude blog photo of herself. Its text also refers to the case of Samira Ibrahim.[1]
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| Born | November 16, 1991
Egypt
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| Nationality | Egyptian |
| Alma mater | American University of Cairo |
| Occupation | activist |
Anne L. Kinney
Anne L. Kinney is an American space scientist and educator. Kinney is currently the head of the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) for the National Science Foundation (NSF).[1] Previously, she held positions as the Chief Scientist of the W.M. Keck Observatory, Director of the Solar System Exploration Division at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Director of the Origins Program at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory,[2] and Director of the Universe Division at NASA Headquarters. She earned a bachelor's degree in astronomy and physics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a doctorate in astrophysics from New York University, and has published more than 80 papers on extragalactic astronomy.[1] She was an instrument scientist for the Faint Object Spectrograph that flew on the Hubble Space Telescope.[3]
Throughout her career, she has overseen numerous space missions, including the Spitzer Space Telescope, the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX),[1] the Chandra X-Ray Observatory,[3] the Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer (CHIPS), and two Hubble Space Telescope servicing missions.[4] Her work has earned her the Presidential Rank Award for Meritorious Service, the NASA Medal for Outstanding Leadership, and several NASA Group Achievement Awards for the Keck Observatory Archive, the James Webb Space Telescope, the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (now known as Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope), and the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter.[1]
Kinney is a science educator, serving on the Council of the American Astronomical Society, is a visiting scholar at the Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge in the United Kingdom,[3] and has sat on the editorial board of Astronomy Magazine since 1997.[1] While serving at Keck Observatory, she piloted the Keck Visitor Scholars Program, which gives graduate students and post-doctoral fellows hands-on experience in observational astronomy.[5] She did public outreach for the Hubble Space Telescope, forming the Space Telescope Science Institute education group, and created Amazing Space, a website for children to learn science, math, and astronomy.[3]
Joyce Ann Wainaina
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| Born | 1968 (age 51–52) |
| Nationality | Kenyan |
| Citizenship | Kenya |
| Alma mater | Duquesne University (Bachelor of Science in Finance) SOAS, University of London (Master of Science in Financial Economics) |
| Occupation | Senior Business Executive |
| Years active | 1989 — present |
| Known for | Business, Management |
| Title | (a) Chief Executive Officer of Citibank Kenya (b) Regional Executive Director of Citibank Subsidiaries in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda & Zambia |
Ángela Torres
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| Born |
Ángela Azul Concepción Caccia
13 August 1998 |
| Nationality |  Argentina |
| Occupation | Actress, singer |
| Years active | 2008–present |
| Parent(s) | Gloria Carrá and Marcelo Torres |
| Relatives | Diego Torres (Uncle) Lolita Torres (Grandmother) |
Lesieli Taviri
Lesieli Moala Taviri is a businesswoman and chief executive from Papua New Guinea. In 2014 she was the winner of the Westpac Outstanding Women Award in Papua New Guinea.[1]
Ruth Runciman
Dame Ruth Runciman DBE (born Ruth Hellman: 9 January 1936) is a former Chair of the UK Mental Health Act Commission.[1]
She served for more than three decades with the Citizens Advice Bureau and made significant contributions to work on drug misuse,[2] for which she was awarded the OBE in 1991, which was later elevated to DBE.[3]
Gioconda Rizzo
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| Born | April 18, 1897 |
| Died | March 22, 2004 (aged 106) |
| Occupation | Photographer |
Carole Post
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| Born |
Carole Wallace Post
Bradenton, Florida
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| Education | B.S., University of Florida; J.D., Seton Hall University |
| Occupation | Deputy COO of USF Health at University of South Florida; Former Executive Vice President, COO, and Chief Strategy Officer of New York Law School; Former NYC CIO & Commissioner of NYC DoITT |
Claudia Neuhauser
Claudia Maria Neuhauser (born 1962)[1] is a mathematical biologist[2] whose research concerns spatial ecology. She also investigates computational biology and bioinformatics.[3] She is the former vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Minnesota Rochester and directs the Institute of Informatics at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities.[4] At the University of Minnesota, she is also a Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor, and Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor.[5]
Julia Neuberger
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The Baroness Neuberger
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| Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
| Assumed office 15 June 2004 Life Peerage | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 27 February 1950 |
| Citizenship | United Kingdom |
| Nationality | English |
| Political party | None (crossbencher) |
| Other political affiliations | Liberal Democrats (1988–2011) Social Democratic Party (–1988) |
| Spouse(s) | Anthony Neuberger |
| Children | Two |
| Education | South Hampstead High School |
| Alma mater | Newnham College, Cambridge Leo Baeck College |
Julia Babette Sarah Neuberger, Baroness Neuberger, DBE (née Schwab; born 27 February 1950) is a member of the British House of Lords. She previously took the Liberal Democrat whip, but resigned from the party and joined the Crossbenches in September 2011 upon becoming the full-time senior rabbi to the West London Synagogue. She has been appointed chairman of UCLH.[1]
Susana Naidich
Susana Naidich (alt, Naidic; born, 1932) is an Argentine singer, musicologist, phonologist, voice teacher, and Speech-language pathologist.[1][2]
Jean Mueller
Jean Mueller (born 1950) is an American astronomer and discoverer of comets, minor planets, and a large number of supernovas at the U.S. Palomar Observatory in California.[1]
Clare Morpurgo
Clare, Lady Morpurgo, MBE (née Lane) is a philanthropist. She is the wife of British author Michael Morpurgo and the eldest daughter of Allen Lane, founder of Penguin Books.[1]
Morpurgo founded the charity Farms for City Children,[2] set up in 1974, and her husband Michael Morpurgo is also deeply involved with the charity; she is also a trustee of The Allen Lane Foundation, a grant-making charity.[3]
She is the co-author with Michael Morpurgo of Wherever My Wellies Take Me (2012).[4]
Noelia Marzol
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| Born |
Noelia Marzol
December 1, 1986
Buenos Aires, Argentina
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| Other names | Noe, Noli |
| Occupation | Actress, dancer, hostess, gymnast, businesswoman and fashion designer |
| Years active | 2007–present |
| Partner(s) | Victorio D'Alessandro (2010-2011) Walter Palacios (2012) Pablo Landolfi (2013-2014) Gastón Soffritti (2014) Matias Bruland (2015-2016) Marcos Baldovino (2017-2019) Ramiro Arias (2019-present) |
| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Akhi Khatun | ||
| Date of birth | 18 June 2003 | ||
| Place of birth | Shahjadpur, Sirajganj | ||
| Height | 5 ft 6 in (168 cm) | ||
| Playing position | Defender | ||
| National team | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2016 | Bangladesh U–14 | (1) | |
| 2017– | Bangladesh U–15 | ||
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