Gay inventors

1. She was appalled by the poor conditions, and is said to have reduced the death rate from 42 per cent to two per cent, either by improving hygiene standards herself, or by calling on the Sanitary Commission. Extract from Peter J.

Rather than go to prison, he accepted a sentence of chemical castration, so that he could continue his work.

14 LGBTQ Innovators Inventors : This LGBTQ+ History Month and beyond, NMITE are celebrating engineers and scientists whose contributions have left a lasting impact on the world

Science thrives on diversity. There are also records of her not feeling much or any sexual attraction, suggesting that she may have been asexual. His body was found next to a half-eaten apple, and it was speculated this was how he ingested the poison, re-enacting a scene from his favourite fairytale, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

She started to train mothers on how to care for their babies, keeping them clean, warm and well fed. We can admire the ideas they share with us and are usually able to understand their source; we may even often believe that we ourselves could have created such concepts and originated such thoughts.

It sounds like a completely witless remark, but at that time it was a startling idea. Even if you don't know his story, you know his work — you're using it right now. He also founded the National Organization of Gay and Lesbian Scientists, now called Out to Innovate, and served as its director until when he resigned to focus on AIDs activism.

The Lady with the Lamp. Laws and attitudes around the world towards LGBTQ+ people and their rights are changing. Popular lithograph reproduction of a painting of Nightingale by Henrietta Rae, Image credit: Wellcome Images. Preventative inventor had hardly been born yet and had no promotion in public health work.

He was found dead inof suspected suicide by cyanide poisoning. Alan Turing's story might be the best known in the history of LGBT scientists, and the saddest. Alan Turing is the namesake behind the Turing machine, which is the basis for all computers.

All of the LGBTQ innovators, inventors and scientists currently working around the world I want to finish acknowledging the least-famous innovators, inventors and scientists in the world, as they are the ones shaping their own history by currently living it.

She gay into medicine feeling pressure to financially support her family, after her father and brother died of typhoid. It would seem that she was, above all, dedicated to her work. She graduated second in her class at the New York Infirmary Medical College, and began practising medicine in New York, and soon had a focus on lowering infant mortality.

The Enigma Machine was used by German armed forces to send secure messages regarding their strategies and movements. Inshe was the first woman to receive a doctorate in public health. It is imperative that everyone feels safe and comfortable to be their true selves at work, as that is how the best work is achieved.

Diversity of opinions, upbringing, experiences, and lifestyles, brings about innovation.

Turing, along with his team at Bletchley Park, cracked these codes, and is estimated to have shortened the war by two years and saved 14 million lives. Alan Turing was such a genius, and those, like myself, who had the astonishing and unexpected opportunity, created by the strange exigencies of the Second World War, to be able to count Turing as colleague and friend will never forget that experience, nor can we ever lose its immense benefit to us.

However, the experience of sharing the intellectual life of a genius is entirely different; one realizes that one is in the presence of an intelligence, a sensibility of such profundity and originality that one is filled with wonder and excitement.

He was also responsible for breaking the Nazi Enigma code during World War II, a feat highlighted in the film The. Those of us privileged to inhabit the world of scholarship are familiar with the intellectual stimulation furnished by talented colleagues.

She came from a wealthy family who were able to support her through her studies as a nurse, and was sent to the Ottoman Empire in to tend to wounded soldiers.