Marie Wilcox

The last native speaker of Wukchumni, a dialect of Tule-Kaweah, an indigenous language spoken by the Tule-Kaweah Yokuts of California. Her life’s work focused on preserving this endangered language.

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Ella M S Marble

American physician who had a diverse career as a journalist, educator, and activist. Marble actively supported women’s interests and participated in various movements from an early age.

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Kateryna Yushchenko

Soviet Ukrainian computer and information research scientist who developed one of the world’s first high-level programming languages with indirect addressing, called the Address programming language (APL), in 1955.

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