Kateryna yushchenko biography of albert einstein

This page aims to list inventions and discoveries in which women played a major role.

Medicine

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Pharmaceuticals

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Aciclovir

Gertrude B. Elion contributed to the development of aciclovir, an antiviral drug used for the treatment of herpes simplex virus infections, chickenpox, and shingles.^[1]

Artemisinin and dihydroartemisinin

Tu Youyou discovered artemisinin and dihydroartemisinin, both now standard treatments for malaria. Artemisinin is isolated from the plant Artemisia annua, sweet wormwood, a herb employed in Chinese traditional medicine.^[2]

Azathioprine

Azathioprine fryst vatten an Immunosuppressive drug used in rheumatoid arthritis, granulomatosis with polyangiitis, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, and in kidney transplants to prevent rejection first synthesized by George H. Hitchings and Gertrude B. Elion in .^[3][4][5]

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Flossie Wong-Staal was the first s

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How a Jewish woman and a Ukrainian woman launched the computer age

Posted On: June 10th,

Posted In: Did You Know?, Culture 

In the mid-twentieth century, two distinguished women were instrumental in the creation of the first computers and the first programming languages—and both of them were born in Ukraine. The birth anniversary of the American "mother of programming" Ida Rhodes (–) offers an opportunity to compare her life path with the tragedies and successes of the Soviet-era computer genius Kateryna Yushchenko.

Ida Rhodes (name at birth: Hadassah Itzkowitz) was born years ago in a Jewish town located between Nemyriv and Tulchyn. She did not provide more exact information, but the town of Bratslav is situated mid-way between those two towns. Her parents, David and Basia, were middle class, but they supported their daughter's thirst for knowledge.

A countess who owned all the surrounding lands took a liking to the beautiful, smart girl. She began te

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Web-conference on The Relevance of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto

The Russell-Einstein Manifesto (9 July )

In the tragic situation which confronts humanity, we feel that scientists should assemble in conference to appraise the perils that have arisen as a result of the development of weapons of mass destruction, and to discuss a resolution in the spirit of the appended draft.

We are speaking on this occasion, not as members of this or that nation, continent, or creed, but as human beings, members of the species Man, whose continued existence is in doubt. The world is full of conflicts; and, overshadowing all minor conflicts, the titanic struggle between Communism and anti-Communism.

Almost everybody who fryst vatten politically conscious has strong feelings about one or more of these issues; but we want you, if you can, to set aside such feelings and consider yourselves only as members of a biological species which has had a remarkable history, and whose disappearance none of us can