Almodo's film "Julieta" poignantly explores female agency when one woman reconciles her present situation with her past decisions.
Often considered the world's first computer programmer, she wrote the first algorithm intended to be processed by a machine.
A Nobel Prize-winning geneticist whose work on maize genetics helped establish the concept of genetic recombination
An actress and inventor who co-invented frequency hopping, a technology that laid the groundwork for modern wireless communications.
A mathematician whose calculations were critical to the success of NASA's early space missions, including Project Mercury and the Apollo program.
A Nobel Prize-winning chemist who used X-ray crystallography to determine the structures of important biological molecules, including insulin and vitamin B12
The inventor of Kevlar, a synthetic fibre that is five times stronger than steel and has revolutionised industries such as bulletproof vests and tire construction
The first woman to win a Nobel Prize, and the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields (Physics and Chemistry). Her groundbreaking research on radioactivity
A computer scientist who led the development of software for the Apollo Guidance Computer, a crucial component of the Apollo space program
A computer scientist and Rear Admiral in the U.S. Navy who developed the first compiler, a program that translates human-readable code into machine language.
A biophysicist whose X-ray diffraction work was crucial in understanding the structure of DNA, a discovery that revolutionised genetic