Margaret Nash, courageous WWII POW navy nurse
She nursed fellow prisoners through disease and near-starvation in a wartime camp, then survived to continue caring for patients and teaching others to do the same.
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Admiral “Amazing Grace” Hopper, pioneering computer programmer
She helped make computer programming more accessible through readable instructions, transforming how people communicated with machines and opening new possibilities for building software.