Hello. My name is Piers Sellers, and I think the most interesting female scientist that
I've looked up is Sofia Kovalevskaya.
She was an absolutely brilliant Russian mathematician.
who had to really fight for her education. She was born in 1850 in Russia,
but she moved all over Russia. And people helped her out a lot, and she became the first
woman in Europe to get a PhD in mathematics, and she did a whole lot of
original work that was published and is famous today. At the same time, you know she was
interested in everything. So she met with Darwin and Huxley,
and other intellectuals all over Europe. And she had a big heart too, she was involved
in a lot of social movements. Unfortunately she died young at 41, but
her whole life reads like a novel.