The great Mexican artist Frida Kahlo was born Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderon on July 6, 1907. She was born in her family home, La Casa Azul (The Blue House), in Coyoacan, Mexico. Her father, Guillermo Kahlo, was a German-born photographer. The Mexican...
May 12th’s Google doodle honored the birthday of biochemist Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin. Hodgkin is famous for her important achievements in protein crystallography, for which she won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964. But before her remarkable accomplishments...
“Shark!” For many people this animal may be a cause of fear, but for some girls it can lead to fascinating facts about marine biology and other STEM fields. A new organization, called the Gills Club, is inspiring and educating...
USA Today recently published a list of “15 black history sites you don’t know.”¬†This list includes great museums and historical sites throughout the United States, including two sites dedicated to notable African American women. The...
Long before she was honored with a Google doodle the famous primatologist Dr. Dian Fossey was a little girl who loved animals. Dian Fossey was born in San Francisco, California on January 16, 1932. Her parents divorced when she was 6, and she was raised in...
