Legendary singer Asha Bhosle will be honoured with a lifetime achievement award at the 18th Annual Colors Screen Awards, to be held in Mumbai Saturday.She will be honoured for her contribution towards the development of Indian music, said a source from the channel.Asha, a Dadasaheb Phalke Award and Padma Vibhushan winner, has evergreen numbers like "Mehbooba mehbooba", "Piya tu ab to aaja", "...
Wangari Maathai was awarded the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize for her "contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace". She had received a call from Ole Danbolt Mjos, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, on 8 October informing her of the news.She became the first African woman, and the first environmentalist, to win the prize.“ Maathai stood up courageously against...
The first thing you notice about Santosh Yadav is the child-like smile on her face. Having grown up in a tiny village in Haryana, Santosh took to mountaineering out of sheer love for the mountains. However, the climb up the highest mountain in the world had its share of ups and downs.
Today, Santosh is the only woman in the world to have scaled Mount Everest twice in a span of one year. Here she...
When Dr. Jeanette Pullen graduated from the Tulane School of Medicine in 1961, it was exceedingly rare for a child to survive a cancer diagnosis. Fifty years later, survival is the norm, thanks to decades of collaborative research Pullen helped lead, making her a fitting recipient for this year's Tulane Medical Alumni Association Lifetime Achievement Award.
A mere eight years after graduating...
American geographer
Ellen Churchill Semple (January 8, 1863 – May 8, 1932) was an American geographer. Ellen was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the youngest of five children by Alexander Bonner Semple and Emerine Price. She is most closely associated with work in anthropogeography and environmentalism. In a series of books and papers she communicated certain aspects of the work of German...
Computer scientist
Dr. Grace Murray Hopper was one of the earliest computer programmers and a leader in the field of software development concepts. In 1928 she graduated from Vassar College with a BA in mathematics and physics. While an instructor at Vassar, she earned an MA in 1930 and a PhD in 1934 at Yale, one of four women in a doctoral program of ten students, In 1930, she married Vincent...
