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Simone de Beuvoir
 

Candela Martínez Fuentes, David Vila Sampedro · 23 febrero 2018 16:28


Name of the male historic character
Jean-Paul Sarte

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Simone de Beauvoir was a muse of feminism ahead of her time, always trying to appease an overwhelming personality, from her childhood, her father blamed her for not having had a male who carried out the family name.
Simone broke all academic barriers and became one of the brightest minds in France. And to top it off, in his life he comes across another of the brightest minds of the twentieth century: Jean-Paul Sartre.
She practices as a professor of philosophy at the Sorbonne and maintains a constant relationship. His work is aimed at translating the freedom that personal life had dictated, starting with small texts written during the Second World War and ending with the magnificent work "Los mandarines".
She died on April 14, 1986 and was buried in Montparnasse, next to her beloved Sartre.

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Chien-Shiung Wu
 

Hugo Martínez Velo, Jesús Altuve, Uxía Iglesias Soñora · 23 febrero 2018 18:34


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 Tsung-Dao Lee and Yang Chen Ning

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Gabriele Munter
 

Evelyn Bulmini · 28 febrero 2018 23:19


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Vasili Kandinski

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Name of the female historic character
Lise Meitner
 

María Peña Rodríguez, Ruben Noya Doce · 23 febrero 2018 14:04


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Otto Hahn

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Otto Hahn (1879-1968) was a German chemist and Lise Meither (1878-1968) was an Austrian physicist who investigates radiation and nuclear physics. Also, in 1918, she worked with Otto Hahn in an investigation where they discovered protactinium. But later, she had to leave Germany, forced by the Laws of the Nazi government. Together, in 1938, they discovered the nuclear fission of uranium and thorium, and, for this discovery, Hahn won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944 for his pioneering work in the field of radioactivity, however, Meitner was never recognized as a co-author of this discovery because she was a woman. It's often considered one of the most obvious examples of scientific findings discovered by women and overlooked by the Nobel committee for being a woman, but in her honor the chemical element 109 was named "meitnerio".

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Zelda Fitzgerald
 

Daniel Martos Leal, Lucía Rodríguez Lema · 23 febrero 2018 16:32


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Francis Scott Fitzgerald

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The history collects very little datas about Zelda: only her biography and how she was part of the life of her husband, Scott. However, the history has a lot of information about Scott and gives him a lot of merit for his work, although she was his inspiration in many of his successes. In addition, even though with her consent, Zelda's husband used numerous quotes from her diary in his books.
In the only novel she wrote, "Save me the waltz," she spoke of the struggle to earn the respect of others on her own merits and to establish herself independently of her husband, through the voice of the character Alabama Beggs. Due to the similarity between the fictitious couple in her book and the Fitzgeralds themselves, Scott forced her to eliminate the parts that contained material that he wanted to use in his works.

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