Tu Youyou was an expert in traditional Chinese medicine and modern medicine. When China needed someone to solve their problem with malaria, Youyou was the perfect person for the job. She mixed old medicine with new science and saved many lives.
Maryam Mirzakhani started breaking barriers for girls in math when she was in high school. She continued breaking those barriers as an adult when she became the first woman to win the Fields Medal. That's the highest honor a mathematician can receive! She proved women could solve the hardest math problems and inspires young people to find the beauty in math.
Words have the power to create change. Rachel Carson knew this, and she shared her love nature and the need to protect it in her writing. Her book Silent Spring showed how chemicals hurt the planet. This book helped start the modern environmental movement.