Mary Seacole, a Jamaican-born healer and hotelier of mixed African and Scottish background, was unusually mobile for a women of any class or race and still more so for a woman of mixed-race background. She travelled to England, Central America, and … [Read more]
Tillie Olsen – Author and activist
Tillie Olsen, in full Tillie Lerner Goldfarb Olsen, née Tillie Lerner, (born January 14, 1912, Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.—died January 1, 2007, Oakland, California), American writer and social activist known for her powerful fiction about the inner lives … [Read more]
Edward Jenner- A Pioneer in Vaccination
Though vaccination-like procedures likely originated in ancient China hundreds of years prior to the life of Edward Jenner, our current vaccination production procedures are largely attributed to the investigations Mr. Jenner conducted in the late … [Read more]
Alan Turing, Mathematician and Computer Scientist
“I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted. —Alan … [Read more]
Roger Shepard
Roger Shepard Roger Shepard is a Cognitive Psychologist who is considered the father of research on spatial relations. His famous work on mental rotation was, in part, responsible for transforming psychology from a discipline that studied only … [Read more]
Roman Jakobson
Roman Jakobson was a Russian–American linguist and literary theorist. As a pioneer of the structural analysis of language, which became the dominant trend in linguistics during the first half of the 20th century, Jakobson was among the most … [Read more]