GENETICS Barbara McClintock (Estados Unidos, 1902-1992)

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One of the greatest scientific reseachers of genetic field, she was Nobel Prize of Medicine in 1983, even thought it wasn't easy as a woman reseacher. Her innovating results came from the corn and her searching of the human genome. McClintok watched the "letters" that composed her DNA and saw, for the first time, that exists a serie of  genetic sequences which could change its position. So, she produced the first genetic map of the corn, that later it was used to demonstrate the working of the process and the genetic regulation.

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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Ada Lovelace (Reino Unido, 1815-1852)

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Lovelance was the first person to develop a cumputering code and ahead of her time. She discovered that, through a serie of mathematical symbols and rules, large serie of numbers could be calculated,  bring forward in that way the capacities that later on machines adquired. Her mother was a  political activist mathematic and her father was George Byron poet, thanks to her social position she met important scientists, what caused her educational development.
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ARCHEOLOGY Mary Anning (Reino Unido, 1799-1847)

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