Gertrude Belle Elion (January 23, 1918 – February 21, 1999) was an American biochemist and pharmacologist, and a 1988 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Working alone as well as with George H. Hitchings, Elion developed a multitude of new drugs, using innovative research methods that would later lead to the development of the AIDS drug AZT.
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2014-01-24
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Virginia Elizabeth "Geena" Davis (born January 21, 1956)is an American actress, film producer, writer, former fashion model, and a women's Olympics archery team semi-finalist.
She is known for her roles in Stuart Little,The Fly, Beetlejuice, Thelma & Louise, A League of Their Own, The Long Kiss Goodnight and The Accidental Tourist, for which she won the 1988 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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2014-01-21
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Julia Morgan (January 20, 1872 – February 2, 1957) was an American architect. The architect of over 700 buildings in California, she is best known for her work on Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California.
Throughout her long career, she designed multiple buildings for institutions serving women and girls.
Born in San Francisco, California, she was raised in Oakland and graduated from Oakland High School in 1890.
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2014-01-20
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Dolly Rebecca Parton was born January 19, 1946, the fourth of 12 children.
She is an American singer-songwriter, author, multi-instrumentalist, actress and philanthropist, best-known for her work in country music, her distinctive soprano voice, "big hair," voluptuous figure, flamboyant style and sometimes bawdy sense of humour.
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2014-01-18
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Ernestine Louise Rose (January 13, 1810 – August 4, 1892) was an atheist, feminist, and abolitionist. She was one of the major intellectual forces behind the women's rights movement in nineteenth-century America.
She was born on January 13, 1810, in Piotrków Trybunalski, Russia-Poland, as Ernestine Louise Polowsky. Her father was a rich rabbi and her mother the daughter of a wealthy businessman..
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2014-01-15
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