1 00:00:00,020 --> 00:00:04,010 Hello. My name is Piers Sellers, and I think the most interesting female scientist that 2 00:00:04,030 --> 00:00:08,040 I've looked up is Sofia Kovalevskaya. 3 00:00:08,060 --> 00:00:12,050 She was an absolutely brilliant Russian mathematician. 4 00:00:12,070 --> 00:00:16,070 who had to really fight for her education. She was born in 1850 in Russia, 5 00:00:16,090 --> 00:00:20,110 but she moved all over Russia. And people helped her out a lot, and she became the first 6 00:00:20,130 --> 00:00:24,120 woman in Europe to get a PhD in mathematics, and she did a whole lot of 7 00:00:24,140 --> 00:00:28,130 original work that was published and is famous today. At the same time, you know she was 8 00:00:28,150 --> 00:00:32,140 interested in everything. So she met with Darwin and Huxley, 9 00:00:32,160 --> 00:00:36,150 and other intellectuals all over Europe. And she had a big heart too, she was involved 10 00:00:36,170 --> 00:00:40,170 in a lot of social movements. Unfortunately she died young at 41, but 11 00:00:40,190 --> 00:00:42,923 her whole life reads like a novel.