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From: Latin Live At just 8 years old, Xóchitl Guadalupe Cruz has invented a device to help low-income families. The little girl from Chiapas was recognized by UNAM's Institute of Nuclear Sciences for her outstanding scientific achievement. At just 8 years old, Xóchitl has designed and constructed a solar-powered device to heat water, using only recycled materials, Cultura Colectiva reports. For many, this device may seem totally unnecessary. But, in Xóchitl's community, wher

Susanna Madora Kinsey Salter was born on March 2, 1860, near the unincorporated community of Lamira, in Smith Township, Belmont County, Ohio. She was the daughter of Quaker colonists from England, Oliver Kinsey and Terissa Ann White Kinsey. When she was 12, they moved to Kansas and settled on an 80 acre farm in Kaw Valley, near Silver Lake. She attended local schools and at the age of 18 she entered Kansas Sate Agricultural College ( Now Kansas State University) in Manhattan

Florence Bascom was highly encouraged to attend college in an era when it wasn't common. She would become a trailblazing geologist, who, in 1893, was the first woman to earn a doctorate from Johns Hopkins University and, in 1896, became the first woman employed by the United States Geological Survey. Born in Williamstown on July 14, 1862, she was the daughter of John Bascom, a professor at Williams College and a Greylock Reservation Commission (Bascom Lodge is named for him),

She was born Anna Pauline Murray on November 20, 1910, in Baltimore, Maryland. When Murray was three years old, her mother suffered a massive cerebral hemorrhage on the family staircase and died on the spot. Pauli’s father, left alone with his grief and six children under the age of ten, sent her to live with a maternal aunt, Pauline Fitzgerald, after whom she was named. Three years later, ravaged by anxiety, poverty, and illness, Pauli’s father was committed to the Crownsvi

Lavinia Lloyd Dock was a nurse and social reformer born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in 1858. From a well-to-do family, she chose to train as a nurse and after serving as a visiting nurse among the poor she compiled the first manual of drugs for nurses, Materia Medica for Nurses (1890). She devoted her life to improving the health of the poor and the profession of nursing. She gave up nursing around the age of 50, but dedicated her energies to other causes such as improved wor