Bertha Sophie Felicitas Countess Kinský von Chinic und Tettau, or Baroness von Suttner (1843 – 1914), was an Austrian pacifist. Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1905, she is one of the first people and the first woman to obtain this prize. Private Secretary to Alfred Nobel Born in Prague on June
Nadia Comăneci (born 1961) is a Romanian-American gymnast, considered one of the greatest gymnasts of all time. At 14, she became the first gymnast of all time to obtain a score of 10, rewarding a perfect performance, at the Olympic Games. Gymnastics as a playground Daughter of Stefania-Alexandrin
Get the Emperors attention Louis Pasteur, born in 1822 in Dole, was already an eminent professor of physics and chemistry when Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte proclaimed the Second Empire in 1852. Deeply Bonapartist, Pasteur stayed more and more frequently in Paris. He entered the Academy of Sciences D
American mathematician , Dorothy Johnson Vaughan (1910 – 2008) supervised the group of scientists West Area Computers of NASA, which was then NACA. His story and that of his colleagues were told in the book and film Hidden Figures . Gifted mathematician Daughter of Annie and Leonard Johnson, Dorot