• marie curie (polish; scorpio): physicist, chemist, conducted pioneering research on radioactivity, first woman to win a nobel prize, the first person and only woman to win twice, the only person to win a nobel prize in two different sciences.
  • machado de assis (brazilian; gemini): novelist, poet, playwright, short story writer, self taught multilingual.
  • oscar wilde (irish; libra): playwright, novelist, essayist, poet, got arrested for being bissexual.
  • carrie fisher (north american; libra): actress, writer, humorist, fought bipolarity.
  • katherine johnson (african american; virgo): physicist and mathematician who made contributions to the united states' aeronautics and space programs with the early application of digital electronic computers at nasa.
  • mary jackson (african american; aries): mathematician and aerospace engineer at the national advisory committee for aeronautics (naca), which in 1958 was succeeded by the national aeronautics and space administration (nasa). nasa’s first black female engineer.
  • dorothy vaughan (african american; virgo): mathematician who worked for the national advisory committee for aeronautics (naca), and nasa, at langley research center in hampton, virginia. in 1949, she became acting supervisor of the west area computers, the first african-american woman to supervise a staff at the center.
  • leonard nimoy (north american; aries): actor, film director, photographer, author, singer, songwriter.
  • j.r.r. tolkien (british; capricorn): writer, poet, philologist, university professor.
  • margaret hamilton (north american; leo): computer scientist, systems engineer, and business owner. she was director of the software engineering division of the mit instrumentation laboratory, which developed on-board flight software for the apollo space program.
  • srinivāsa aiyangār rāmānujan (indian; capricorn): mathematician and autodidact. though he had almost no formal training in pure mathematics, he made substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions.
  • alan turing (british; cancer): computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, theoretical biologist. he was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general purpose computer. turing is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence.
  • stephen hawking (british; capricorn): theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author.
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