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Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Visconti, Virida (c. 1354–1414)Archduchess of Austria . Name variations: Verde Visconti; Virda Visconti; Viridis Visconti. Born around 1354 (some sources cite 1350 and 1351) in Milan, Italy; died in 1414 in Sittich, Karnten; daughter of Bernabo Visconti, lord of Milan (r. 1354–1385), and ...
- Hedy Lamarr: Wireless Communication. Hollywood actor Hedy Lamarr should actually be the person credited with the invention of wireless communication. During the second World War, Hedy worked closely with George Antheil to develop the idea of "frequency hopping," which would have prevented the bugging of military radios.
- Alice Ball: Cure for Leprosy. Alice Ball was a young chemist at Kalihi Hospital in Hawaii who focused on Hansen's disease, a.k.a. leprosy. Her research sought to find a cure for the disease by figuring out how to inject chaulmoogra oil directly into the bloodstream.
- Marion Donovan: Disposable Diapers. In the '40s, new mothers had very few options for diapers. There was cloth... and that was pretty much it. The daughter of an inventor, Marion's first patent was actually for a diaper cover.
- Elizabeth Magie Phillips: Monopoly. The invention of everyone's favorite board game has been credited to Charles Darrow, who sold it to Parker Brothers in 1935.
Apr 14, 2023 · Marissa Mayer appeared on the List of women CEOs of Fortune 500 companies in 2017, has ranked 498 of the top 500 Fortune 500 company CEOs. 51. Female Inventor Rachel Zimmerman – Canadian-born ...
Leopold was the founder of the branch of the dynasty from which all the Habsburgs of the Early Modern era were to trace their descent. In 1365 at the age of fourteen his brother Rudolf arranged for him to be married to Viridis Visconti, who was about his own age.
- Emilie du Chatelet (1706 – 1749) Gabrielle-Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, the daughter of the French court’s chief of protocol, married the marquis du Chatelet in 1725.
- Caroline Herschel (1750 – 1848) Herschel was little more than the household drudge for her parents in Hanover, Germany (she would later describe herself as the “Cinderella of the family”), when her older brother, William, brought her to England in 1772 to run his household in Bath.
- Mary Anning (1799 – 1847) In 1811, Mary Anning’s brother spotted what he thought was a crocodile skeleton in a seaside cliff near the family’s Lyme Regis, England, home.
- Mary Somerville (1780 – 1872) Intrigued by the x’s and y’s in the answer to a math question in a ladies’ fashion magazine, 14-year-old Mary Fairfax of Scotland delved into the study of algebra and mathematics, defying her father’s injunction against such pursuits.
Jane Cooke Wright (1919–2013) was an oncologist who pioneered the use of chemotherapy with the drug methotrexate to treat breast cancer and skin cancer ( mycosis fungoids ). HIV. Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montaigner discovered HIV, the cause of AIDS. [1]
Giovanni Visconti, who also had become archbishop of Milan in 1342, continued as lord of Milan, while its territory was increased by the temporary annexation of Bologna and Genoa in the 1350s. After Giovanni’s death, the Visconti dominions were shared among his three nephews. When Matteo II ( c. 1319–55) died, Bernabò (1323–85) and ...
