7 famous women history set an impressive record

The first woman to fly alone across the Atlantic, the first woman to fly into space, . is an extremely impressive record of famous women in world history.

1. Pilot Amelia Earhart

On May 20, 1932, the 15-hour historic flight of Amelia Earhart from Newfoundland to Ireland took place. She was the first woman and the second person in the world to fly alone across the Atlantic . After finishing the flight, Amelia Earhart was on the list of famous historical women.

2. Engineer Dana Ulery

Dana Ulery is the first female engineer working for the US Aerospace Agency (NASA) . In 1961, Dana Ulery worked at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Later, she continued to work at the US Army Research Laboratory.

3. Ellen Swallow Richards

Ellen Swallow Richards was the first woman to be admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US (MIT). She graduated in 1873 and became the first female lecturer there. Two years later, Ellen Swallow Richards established a laboratory at MIT dedicated to women who are passionate about chemistry.

4. Pilot Jacqueline Cochran

In 1953, Jacqueline Cochran - an American pilot who drove an F-86 Saber jet fighter to pass the speed of Mach 1 (1,125 km / h) and became the first woman to break the sound barrier. . And until 11 years later, Jacqueline Cochran's record was broken by the female pilot Cochran. Cochran drove the plane past Mach 2 (2,400 km / h).

5. Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell

Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman to receive a doctorate in medicine in the United States . She is also a pioneer in career liberation for women, a prominent social and moral reformer in the UK and the United States. When she learned that she intended to study medicine, doctors told her that medical education was not for women. After many attempts to submit applications to more than 10 medical training schools, she was eventually admitted to the Geneva Medical University in New York, USA. In 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell graduated and worked in obstetrics and gynecology.

6. Marie Curie

Marie Curie is a Polish-French physicist and chemist, famous for her pioneering research on radioactivity. The first and only woman in the world twice received the Nobel Prize in two different fields of physics and chemistry . Marie Curie was the first female university lecturer at the University of Paris.

7. Valentina Tereshkova

Valentina Tereshkova is the first woman to fly into space. On June 16, 1963, Tereshkova joined the Eastern-6 spacecraft (Vostok-6) and flew around the earth for three days. After returning to earth, she was conferred the title of Hero of the Soviet Union by the Soviet government when she was only 26 years old.