National Health Museum
Assess Excellence: Barbara Mc Clintock
This Access Excellence site describes McClintock's work in genetics. Focuses on the idea of McClintock beinga pioneer as a woman working in scienceand the obstacles she had to overcome.
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Festival Du Voyageur
Voyageurs are remembered each year in Manitoba's Festival du Voyageur. It is a special recognition and reinforcement of the province's deep Franco-Manitoban history and roots. This winter celebration is proof that the voyageurs' courage...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: Information Age
This exhibition surveys the history of information technology and its relation to society from the origin of the telegraph to the present. Its emphasis is as much on social as technical change. This support page contains background...
Arizona State University
Jaie: Community and School Service
This 1968 article from Journal of American Indian Education discusses the pioneer Indian school, Rough Rock Demonstration School, in which the reservation was given control of its own school.
NASA
Nasa: Astronaut Biography: Sally K. Ride
Sally K. Ride, native Californian, is featured in this biography. Ride is known for being a woman pioneer in the U.S. Space program, but she has been a strong supporter of STEM education for girls and young women as well.
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Flamenco World: Mundo Flamenco
A pioneer bilingual flamenco site that offers services and daily information on flamenco, music, and culture. Some of the features are: introduction to flamenco, festivals, guitar, dance, as well as online store, artist's encyclopedia,...
Florida State University
Florida State University: Magnet Lab: Magnetic Thin Films
This gallery takes readers from the 1880s and the pioneering work of German physicist August Kundt, up to recent advances in technology, including interlayer exchange coupling (IEC) and giant magnetoresistance (GMR).
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Texas State Library and Archives Commission: Texas Joins the Battle: Lucy Stone to Mariana Folsom, January 22, 1885
Read a brief biography of Lucy Stone, "one of the pioneers of the women's suffrage movement," and also read a letter she wrote to Mariana Folsom, another suffragist. Image of actual letter is accompanied by line-by-line transcription.
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Aviation Media: Kartveli: Innovator in Aviation
Read about Alexander Kartveli, an influential aircraft engineer and a pioneer in American aviation history.
Historica Canada
Historica Canada: Heritage Minutes: Jennie Trout
A short video drama showing the life and career of pioneer Jennie Kidd Trout, who in 1875 became the first woman to practice medicine in Canada. [1:00]
World History Encyclopedia
World History Encyclopedia: Archimedes
Illustrated entry provides an account of the life of Archimedes, a pioneer in the fields of mathematics and engineering.
Social Security Administration
Social Security Online: Otto Von Bismarck: World's First Social Security
One page summary of the modern world's first social security program pioneered by Otto Von Bismarck in easy to read language.
Famous Scientists
Famous Scientists: Alberto Santos Dumont
Read about Brazilian aviation pioneer, Alberto Santos-Dumont, who designed, built, and flew hot air balloons, and was famous for his flight that rounded the Eiffel Tower.
Famous Scientists
Famous Scientists: Alessandro Volta
Learn how Alessandro Volta became a pioneer of electricity and power, and who is credited as the inventor of the electrical battery and the discoverer of methane.
Famous Scientists
Famous Scientists: Alfred Wegener
Find out about the life and work of Alfred Wegener, known for his achievements in meteorology and as a pioneer of polar research, and is most remembered as the originator of the theory of continental drift.
Famous Scientists
Famous Scientists: Arnold Sommerfeld
Learn about the scientist who pioneered developments in atomic and quantum physics, and also served as PhD supervisor for many Nobel Prize winners in physics and chemistry.
Famous Scientists
Famous Scientists: Daniel Bernoulli
Read a short biography about Daniel Bernoulli, and find out about his work in fluid mechanics, and his pioneering work in probability and statistics.
Famous Scientists
Famous Scientists: Edward Jenner
Learn about the english physician and scientist who was the pioneer of smallpox vaccine, the first vaccination.
Famous Scientists
Famous Scientists: Ernst Werner Von Siemens
Find out how Werner von Siemens became the pioneer of the electro industry and brought about a great technological advancement with many of his important discoveries.
Famous Scientists
Famous Scientists: Gottlieb Daimler
Find out about Gottlieb Daimler, a pioneer of internal-combustion engines and automobile development.
Famous Scientists
Famous Scientists: Grace Murray Hopper
Learn about Grace Murray Hopper, a pioneer in her field and one of Harvard Mark I computer's first programmers.
Famous Scientists
Famous Scientists: Otto Hahn
Research about the life and discoveries of a scientist named Otto Hahn who credited with pioneering the field of radiochemistry and radioactivity.
Famous Scientists
Famous Scientists: Werner Heisenberg
Find out about German scientist, Werner Heisenberg, a theoretical physicist who was one of the key pioneers of quantum mechanics.
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Famous Scientists: Wolfgang Ernst Pauli
Learn about the life and work of one of the pioneers of quantum physics, Wolfgang Ernst Pauli.
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