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1900s- Isadora Duncan

The mother of modern dance chafed under what she saw as the rigid restrictions of classical forms and replaced them with free, expansive, expressive movement. She influenced a generation of dancers — and loosened us all up. She paralleled humanistic psychology by representing a break from Victoria constriction into personal expression and freedom.

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1811- Sophie Germain
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1814- Dolley Madison
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1830s- Sarah & Angelina Grimke (Sisters)
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1842- Ada Lovelace
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1849 - Harriet Tubman
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1849- Elizabeth Blackwell
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1853- Sojourner Truth
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1868- Susan B. Anthony
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1880s- Clara Barton
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1880s- Nellie Bly
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1890s - Marie Curie
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1893- Henrietta Swan Leavitt
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1904 - Ida Tarbell
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1905- Bertha von Suttner
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1905- Nettie Stevens
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1907- Julia Morgan
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1915- Hellen Keller
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1916- Margaret Sanger
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1919- Alice Hamilton, M.D.
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1920- Carrie Chapman Catt
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1920- Emmy Noether
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1920's- Lillian Moller Gilbreth
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1926 - Mary Parker Follett
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1926- Grete Hermann
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1928- Mother Teresa
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1930s- Billie Holiday
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1930s Eleanor Roosevelt
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1931- Jane Addams Hull
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1935- Irene Joliot-Curie
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1936 - Inge Lehmann
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1937- Amelia Earhart
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1939- Lise Meitner
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1942- Hedy Lamarr
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1942- Margaret Mead
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1943- Gertrude Blanch
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1943- Rosa Parks
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1944- Bletchley Park Women's Team
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1946 - ENIAC Programmers
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1947 - Indra Devi
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1947 - Mária Telkes
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1947- Gerty Cori
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1950s- Barbara McClintock
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1950s- Chien-Shiung Wu
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1950s- Esther Lederberg
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1950s- Jane Goodall
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1952- Grace Murray Hopper
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1952- Mary G. Ross
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1953- Rosalind Franklin
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1955- Ann Landers & Abigail Van Buren
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1955- Del Martin & Phyllis Lyon
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1957- Gertrude Belle Elion
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1960s- Grace Slick
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1960s- Joni Mitchell
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1960s- Mildred Dresselhaus
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1960s- Ursula Franklin
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1962- Malvina Reynolds
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1962- Rachel Carson
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1962- Virginia Satir
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1963- Betty Friedan
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1963- Maria Goeppert Mayer
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1964 - Stephanie Kwolek
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1964- Dorothy “Crowfoot” Hodgkin
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1965- Lilli Vincenz
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1966 - Mary Douglas
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1967- Erna Schneider Hoover
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1967- Jocelyn Bell Burnell
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1969- Katherine Johnson
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1970s- Anna Halprin
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1971 - Margaret Hamilton
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1972- Barbara Gittings
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1972- Gloria Steinem
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1972- Yvonne Brill
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1973- Adele Goldberg
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1973- Billie Jean King
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1973- Judith Estrin
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1974 - Betty Ford
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1979 - Lenore Walker
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1980s - Joanna Macy
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1980s- Angeles Arrien
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1981- Dianne Pennica
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1982- Nancy Margulies
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1983- Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
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1984- Virginia Uribe
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1985- Christa McAuliffe
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1986- Oprah Winfrey
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1986- Susan Solomon
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1987- Lucy Suchman
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1991- Joy Mountford
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1994- Susan McGee Bailey
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1996- Eve Ensler
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2000 - Jennifer Lopez
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2001- Lene Hau
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2001- Sally Ride
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2005 - Arianna Huffington
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2006- Amy Jussel
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2007- Claudia Welss
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2007- Taylor Swift
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2009- Margarita Quihuis
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2011- Jane McGonigal
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2013 Sheryl Sandberg
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2014- Malala Yousafzai
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