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Hello. My name is Piers Sellers, and I think the most interesting female scientist that

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I've looked up is Sofia Kovalevskaya.

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She was an absolutely brilliant Russian mathematician.

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who had to really fight for her education. She was born in 1850 in Russia,

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but she moved all over Russia. And people helped her out a lot, and she became the first

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woman in Europe to get a PhD in mathematics, and she did a whole lot of

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original work that was published and is famous today. At the same time, you know she was

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interested in everything. So she met with Darwin and Huxley,

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and other intellectuals all over Europe. And she had a big heart too, she was involved

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in a lot of social movements. Unfortunately she died young at 41, but

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her whole life reads like a novel.