9th March 2026
Emmy Noether was born in 1882 in Erlangen, Germany, into a family deeply connected to academia. Her father, Max Noether, was a respected mathematician, and growing up in this intellectual... Read more
9th March 2026
Rosa Luxemburg was born in 1871 in Zamość, in what is now Poland, then part of the Russian Empire. From a young age she showed extraordinary intellectual abilities and a... Read more
9th March 2026
Hedy Lamarr was born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler in Vienna, Austria, in 1914. From a young age, she showed a strong curiosity about how things worked. Her father often took... Read more
9th March 2026
Ada Lovelace (1815–1852) was an English mathematician and writer who is widely regarded as the first computer programmer in history. She is best known for her work on Charles Babbage’s... Read more
27th February 2026
Sofia Corradi (born 1934) is an Italian academic and educational reformer best known as the visionary behind the Erasmus programme. After studying in the United States on a scholarship in... Read more
27th February 2026
Rosalind Franklin (1920–1958) was a British chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose work was crucial to discovering the structure of DNA. Educated at Cambridge University, she quickly became known for her... Read more
27th February 2026
Bertha von Suttner was born in 1843 in Prague, then part of the Austrian Empire, into an aristocratic but financially unstable family. Despite her noble background, she experienced economic insecurity... Read more
27th February 2026
Judith Butler (born 1956) is an American philosopher and one of the most influential gender theorists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Although not European by origin, her... Read more
25th February 2026
"It’s the little things citizens do. That’s what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees." Wangari Maathai was born in 1940 in rural Kenya and became a... Read more
24th February 2026
Louise Weiss was born in 1893 in Arras, France. A journalist, writer, and political activist, she believed deeply in the power of ideas and media to shape society. At a... Read more
1st December 2025
Simone Veil was born in 1927 in Nice and survived the Holocaust after being deported to Auschwitz at the age of 16. The experience of inhumanity, injustice, and the collapse... Read more
1st December 2025
Gabrielle Defrenne, born in 1929 in Belgium, worked as a flight attendant for Sabena at a time when airlines imposed strict gendered rules on women. Female staff were expected to... Read moreCopyright 2026. All Rights Reserved