On 5 August 1888, aged 39, Bertha Benz was the first woman - in fact the first person - to drive a car over a long distance. She was testing out her husband Carl Benz’s three-wheeled Patent-Motorwagen ...
Maria Skłodowska-Curie ( 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934), commonly known as Marie Curie, was a physicist and chemist who conducted groundbreaking research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to ...