1 December 2020
Margaret Hamilton
Margaret Heafield Hamilton is an American computer scientist, systems engineer, and business owner.
29 November 2020
Dame Jane Goodall
Considered to be the world’s foremost expert on chimpanzees, Goodall is best known for her over 55-year study of social and family…
29 November 2020
Delia Derbyshire
Delia paved the way for the use of tape manipulation and sampling in early hip-hop. She joined the BBC as a Trainee Studio Assistant…
29 November 2020
Hedy Lamarr
Hedys creative ideas included an improved traffic light system, a tablet that dissolved in water to make a fizzy drink and a frequency…
29 November 2020
Marie Curie
Marie is celebrated for her pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and only…
29 November 2020
Grace Hopper
Grace popularised the idea ofmachine-independent programming languages, and invented the compiler, which converts code written in one…
29 November 2020
Ada Lovelace
Ada was a 19th century mathematician and writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose…
29 November 2020
Kim Swift
Renowned games designer, best known for her work at video game developer and distributor Valve.
30 October 2020
Anne-Marie Imafidon
Anne-Marie was a child prodigy in computing, mathematics, and language, and became the youngest-ever graduate with a Master’s Degree at the…