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Who are the women who have influenced the world in history?

1. Clara Zetkin

100 years ago 19 10 years ago, clara zetkin, the pioneer of the German women's movement, proposed the establishment of "International Women's Day" to commemorate the general strike held by Chicago women on March 8, 1909. This is the origin of "International Women's Day". /kloc-since 0/00, women all over the world have made unremitting efforts for peace, equality and development. /kloc-In the past 0/00 years, women all over the world have made great achievements in politics, diplomacy, science, culture and education, which have promoted the development of human civilization.

2. susan sontag

Susan sontag was born in new york, USA from 65438 to 0933 and died in 2004. Famous writers, critics and critics, together with Simone Fubowa, are called "the most important female intellectuals in the contemporary west" in the cultural circle, and have written works such as On Photography and About the Pain of Others.

3. Elizabeth Blackburn

On June 5th, 2009, Karolinska Medical College in Sweden announced that the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine would be awarded to American scientists Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Gidar and Jack Szostak for "discovering how telomeres and telomerase protect chromosomes". Blackburn's award for the Peace Machine once again proves the importance of women in the world's cutting-edge scientific research field.

4. Madame Curie

French Polish, chemist and physicist, Madame Curie, the pioneer of radioactive research, 1867 165438 10 was born in Poland on October 7 and moved to France. 1934 passed away on July 4th.

Madame Curie is one of the most influential women in the world scientific community. Madame Curie wrote many unsurpassed miracles in her life: she was the first female professor at the University of Paris, the first female academician of the French Academy of Sciences, and was also hired as an academician of other 15 countries. She won 24 awards and medals from 7 countries and held 104 honorary positions in 25 countries. She is the first person in the world to win two Nobel Prizes alone. She shared the Nobel Prize with her husband pierre curie. Her eldest daughter Elena and a nuclear physicist also won the Nobel Prize.

5. Vigdis Finn Bogado Thiel.

Finnbogadottir, 1930 was born in Reykjavik on April 5, 1930. He studied French, English and drama literature at the universities of Grenoble, Paris, Iceland, Sweden and Copenhagen. He has been engaged in drama, literature and language teaching for a long time, and worked as a French teacher in middle schools, universities and TV stations. 1June, 980, she.

6. Rosa parks.

Rosa parks, 19 13 was born in a black family in Alabama on February 4th. 1 955 65438+February1,she refused to give up her seat to a white man on the bus, which opened the curtain of the modern American civil rights movement.

At that time, Alabama implemented the Jim Crow Act, a racist law that segregated and suppressed blacks. It is stipulated that blacks cannot sit with whites when they take buses, go to restaurants and other public facilities. Because there were many people on the bus, the driver asked Rosa parks to give up her seat to a white man, but she refused. Since then, this seemingly insignificant "treason" has developed into a civil rights movement that changed the course of American history. Rosa parks himself recalled: "On that day, as usual, the only thing that made it important was the unity of all black people." Detroit Mayor kilpatrick commented: "She sat and stood up."

7. Larissa Latinina.

Larissa Latinina, a former Soviet gymnast, was born in 1934. She is by far the female athlete who won the most gold medals in the Summer Olympics. She won nine gold medals in the Olympic Games 1956, 1960 and 1964.

8. Simon Beauvoir.

Simon Beauvoir, born in 1908, is one of the founders of the world feminist movement and Jean-Paul Sartre's lifelong companion. Beauvoir is an existentialist writer, and her most important work, The Second Sex, expounds the important viewpoint that "the gender characteristics of men and women are caused by society", which has a great influence on the feminist movement after the 1960s. 1986, Beauvoir died in Paris and was buried with Sartre.

9. Audrey Hepburn

Audrey Hepburn, a famous American movie star, was born in May 1929. Hepburn created a series of touching screen images, especially Roman Holiday, which co-starred with gregory peck, became a screen classic, captivated hundreds of millions of viewers and won the Oscar for Best Actress. After retiring from the film industry, Hepburn worked tirelessly for the cause of children's relief and became a friendly ambassador of UNICEF until his death. 1993 65438+1On October 20th, Hepburn died of colon cancer at the age of 63.

10. Jane Goodall

Jane goodall, a famous British biologist, animal behaviorist and animal protectionist, 1934 was born in London, England. He devoted his life to studying the living conditions of wild chimpanzees in Africa. From the age of 26, she went deep into the jungle of Tanzania and lived with chimpanzees for a long time. In her decades-long field research, she revealed many previously unknown secrets of the chimpanzee community. For example, she found that chimpanzees can choose and process tools, there will be wars and killings between different groups, there is a strict hierarchy in the community, and female chimpanzees will feed and raise their cubs like humans. These studies have introduced brand-new materials for anthropology and animal behavior research.

1 1. Vetrana Savika.

1On July 30th, 984, astronaut Svetlana Savika returned to the ground and walked out of the Soyuz T- 12 capsule, ending 13 days of space flight. In this flight, Savika became the first woman to walk in space, and she was also the first woman to travel in space twice.

12. May Jemison.

May Jemison is the first black female astronaut in the United States. She was selected by NASA for space flight training in 1987, and completed more than 190 hours of space flight on the space shuttle endeavour in September 1992.