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One of India’s earliest practicing female doctors and pioneering social reformers, Rukhmabai (1864-1955) gained international fame through her landmark legal…

Ettore Majorana was an Italian theoretical physicist with one of the most brilliant minds and remarkably troubled in the 20th…

Major Dhyan Chand has achieved worldwide respect as one of the all-time greats in the history of sports. He is…

Introduction Vera Rubin was an American astronomer whose groundbreaking research helped prove the existence of dark matter. She became one…

On the 26th of May 1828 the citizens of Nuremberg, Germany were faced with a strange and deeply unsettling sight.…

Amrita Sher-Gil is renowned as one of India’s finest painters even today. She was born in Budapest on January 30,…

Clarence Arthur Ellis was born on May 11, 1943, in Chicago, Illinois, United States. He was raised in a time…

Tenzing Norgay was born on May 29, 1914, in the Himalayas near Mount Everest. Mountains would define his life and…

Dashrath Manjhi was born on 14 January 1934 in the small village of Gehlaur in Bihar, India. He hailed from…

Radia Perlman, who is not a household name outside the tech world, is one of the most influential people in…