Women International Day 2023
March 8, 2023
March 8, 2023
The forgotten mother of the computer. She was the first to recognise that the machine had applications beyond pure calculation, and to have published the first algorithm intended to be carried out by such a machine. As a result, she is often regarded as the first computer programmer.
Barbarita Lara Martínez is a Chilean researcher, coder, social entrepreneur, and IT execution engineer. She is known for devising a technology that allows emergency messages to be sent to the population affected by a natural disaster even when there is no connection to the internet or mobile networks.
The first woman to receive a salary as a scientist and the first woman in England to hold a government position. Caroline was a German-born British astronomer, whose most significant contributions to astronomy were the discoveries of several comets, including the periodic comet 35P/Herschel–Rigollet, which bears her name. She was the younger sister of astronomer William Herschel, with whom she worked throughout her career.
Bárbara Silva is Director of Companies and Advisor in Disruptive Innovation and Digital Transformation, she has advised leaders, governments and companies in the design of new models in the Digital Age. With an outstanding international career, he has lived and worked in Chile, Mexico, the United States and Denmark.
Michela Magas is a designer, entrepreneur, and innovation specialist, of Croatian-British nationality, and is the first woman from the Creative Industries to receive the European Woman Innovator of the Year award by the European Commission.
Rosario Orrego Castañeda (Copiapo, 1834 – Valparaíso, 1879)
Rosario Orrego Castañeda considered Chile’s first woman novelist, a pioneer in the poetic field in that country, and one of the forerunners of women’s literature in Hispanic America.
Rosalind Franklin (London, 1920- 1958)
British chemist and X-ray crystallographer, referred to as the “wronged heroine”, the “dark lady of DNA”, and the “forgotten heroine” for her largely unrecognized contributions to the discovery of the structure of DNA.
Eloísa Díaz Inzunza (Santiago, Chile, 25 June 1866 – 1 November 1950)
Eloísa was a Chilean doctor. She was the first female medical student to attend the University of Chile, and the first woman to become a doctor of medicine in Chile as well as the entire region of South America.
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Eloísa Díaz Inzunza (Santiago, Chile, 25 June 1866 – 1 November 1950)
Eloísa was a Chilean doctor. She was the first female medical student to attend the University of Chile, and the first woman to become a doctor of medicine in Chile as well as the entire region of South America.
Jocellyn Bell Burnell (Belfast, Irland, 15 July 1943)
Astrophysicist from Northern Ireland who, as a postgraduate student, discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967. The discovery eventually earned the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1974; however, she was not one of the prize’s recipients.
Komal Dadlani (Santiago, Chile, 1989)
Komal is co-founder and CEO of Lab4U, a company with more than six years of growth in Chile, the United States and Mexico, which seeks to democratize science and change the way it is taught with an application that turns any smartphone into a scientific laboratory.
