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  2. Lizzie Magie - Wikipedia

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    She was buried with her husband Albert Wallace Phillips, who had died in 1937, in Columbia Gardens Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia. [10] Magie died without having any children. [ 11 ] At her death, she was not credited for the impact that she had on the board game community and American culture.

  3. List of inventions and discoveries by women - Wikipedia

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    Flanigen also co-invented a synthetic emerald and was the first female recipient of the Perkin Medal in 1992. Synthetic radiochemistry Irene Joliot-Curie was awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for synthesis of new radioactive elements for application in medicine. The prize was shared jointly with her husband Jean Frederic Joliot.

  4. Hedy Lamarr - Wikipedia

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    Hedy Lamarr (/ ˈ h ɛ d i /; born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler; November 9, 1914 [a] – January 19, 2000) was an Austrian-born American actress and inventor. After a brief early film career in Czechoslovakia, including the controversial erotic romantic drama Ecstasy (1933), she fled from her first husband, Friedrich Mandl, and secretly moved to Paris.

  5. She was overwhelmed with loneliness after losing her husband ...

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    Elicati, who is 84 and lives alone in Pearl River, N.Y., loves people, but her interlocutor in this case is a desk-lamp-sized robot, named ElliQ, that sits on her kitchen hutch and keeps her ...

  6. Patricia Billings - Wikipedia

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    She left that job in 1947 when she married; later she and her husband divorced. [3] Billings worked as a tuberculosis researcher at Kansas City Hospital. [4] In 1956 she began studying art at Amarillo College. [5] [6] She made plaster of Paris sculptures, [5] and in 1964 she opened a store in Kansas City where she sold many of her sculptures. [6]

  7. List of women innovators and inventors by country - Wikipedia

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    Women inventors have been historically rare in some geographic regions. For example, in the UK, only 33 of 4090 patents (less than 1%) issued between 1617 and 1816 named a female inventor. [1] In the US, in 1954, only 1.5% of patents named a woman, compared with 10.9% in 2002. [1]

  8. Jeanne Villepreux-Power - Wikipedia

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    Villepreux-Power and her husband left Sicily in 1843, and many of her records and scientific drawings were lost in a shipwreck. [16] [15] Although she continued to write, she conducted no further research. [15] She did, however, become a public speaker. [2] She and husband divided their time between Paris and London.

  9. Marie Van Brittan Brown and Albert L. Brown - Wikipedia

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    (Egg yang nbhyui8ky7gvfh cbfnhOctober 301922 – February 2, 1999) was an American nurse, her husband Albert L. Brown, an electronics technician.6 they invented an audio-visual home security system [1] [2] That same year they applied for a patent for their security system. It was granted three years later in 1969.