Resultados para "Helena" en Profesionales y académicos

A beleza incomum e a inteligência aguda de Helena eram contrastes com sua determinação implacável de se tornar a primeira mulher cirurgiã da Inglaterra vitoriana. Ela não mediria esforços para superar as barreiras e provar sua habilidade, mesmo que isso significasse realizar cirurgias em segredo em sua própria casa.

Helena Rho was six years old when her family left Seoul, Korea, for America and its opportunities. Years later, her Korean-ness behind her, Helena had everything a model minority was supposed to want: she was married to a white American doctor and had a beautiful home, two children, and a career as an assistant professor of pediatrics. For decades she fulfilled the expectations of others. All the while Helena kept silent about the traumas - both professional and personal - that left her anxious yet determined to escape.

V roce 1939 zorganizoval Sir Nicholas Winton záchrannou akci, během které se mu podařilo zachránit 669 českých dětí z nacisty okupovaného Československa. Jedním ze zachráněných dětí byl také Benjamin Bedřich Abeles (1925 – 2020). Americký fyzik, jehož výzkum germanium-křemíkových slitin v 60. letech 20. století ve Spojených státech vedl k vývoji technologie, používané jako zdroj elektřiny pro kosmické sondy programu Voyager. Vyrůstal v Rakousku a v Československu.

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Seit jeher leiten Frauen erfolgreich Unternehmen, beraten Regierungen oder entwickeln technische Erfindungen – selbst in Zeiten, als dies noch als reine "Männerdomäne" galt. Die wenigsten dieser Wirtschaftspionierinnen sind jedoch für ihre herausragenden Leistungen so bekannt wie ihre männlichen Mitstreiter. Jana Lucas richtet endlich das Scheinwerferlicht auf diese inspirierenden Biografien von 20 meist unbekannten Erfinderinnen, Unternehmerinnen und Macherinnen und gibt diesen die Bedeutung, die ihnen zusteht.

A lively husband and wife team recounts their twenty-year climb from amateur winemakers to recipients of an almost unheard-of perfect score from Robert Parker's Wine Advocate. Kathryn and Craig Hall launched themselves head first into Napa Valley 20 years ago with the purchase of an 1885 winery...