Článek přibližuje významnou osobnost světové vědy Marii Curie-Skłodowskou, dvojnásobnou nositelku Nobelovy ceny, objevitelku prvků polonium a radium, první ženu profesorku na pařížské Sorbonně a nepřehlédnutelnou postavu v historii vědy a techniky 20. století., The paper portrays famous physicist and chemist Maria Curie-Skłodowska - a distinguished personality of the world science, double Nobel Prize winner, discoverer of polonium and radium, the first female professor at the Sorbonne, personage who cannot be overlooked in the history of the science and technology in the 20th century., Ivana Lorencová., and Obsahuje bibliografii
Sofia Kovalevskaya was not only a great Russian mathematician, but also a writer and advocate of women's rights in the 19th century. After concluding her sexondary schooling, Sofia was determined to continue her education at the university level. She travelled to Heidelberg to study mathematics, but discovered there that as a woman she could not graduate. In 1870 she moved to Berlin to study with Karl Meierstrass, in 1874 she was granted a Ph.D. from the Göttingen University. In 1883 she received an invitation from Gösta Mittag-Leffler to lecture at the University of Stockholm. Sophia's most famous work is on the theory of partial differential equations, and on the rotation of a solid body about a fixed point. Sophia died very young, at the age of 41, from pneumonia., Ivo Kraus., and Obsahuje bibliografii