Nightingale was born May 12, 1820, in Florence, Italy. As a member of an affluent British family she was afforded a classical education, including mathematics, German, French and Italian. Her early philanthropic work caring for the ill and poor people… more »

Pritzker Prize.com Laureates 2020 Yvonne Farrell (1951) and Shelley McNamara (1952) met during their collegiate studies at the School of Architecture at University College Dublin (UCD). They studied under rationalist architects who had newly arrived to… more »

In 2002 she stepped into the national spotlight when she challenged the all-male status of the Augusta National Golf Club. But Dr. Martha Burk was already well-known for her impressive accomplishments in academia and both the public and the volunteer… more »

Greetings with some good news for the women’s world. Just recently, one of the most prestigious mathematics prizes in the world – The Abel Prize was awarded to a woman for the first time ever. Yes! Karen Uhlenbeck is a mathematician and a professor at… more »

 In 1961 JERRIE COBB was the first of 13 women pilots who passed the same torturous tests as the six other Mercury astronauts (male).  In fact she scored in the top 2% of both the women and the men and had more hours as a pilot, and had set more records… more »