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Harriet Taylor Mill (1807-1858) was a British philosopher and feminist, a major figure in 19th-century liberal thought. A collaborator and wife of John Stuart Mill, she profoundly influenced his works, particularly on individual liberty and the emancipation of women.

Mary Engle Pennington (1872-1952) was an American chemist, bacteriologist, and engineer, a pioneer of food preservation through refrigeration. She established the scientific standards of the cold chain for milk, eggs, and poultry in the United States.

One of the greatest Russian poets of the 20th century, Marina Tsvetaeva was born in Moscow in 1892. Exiled in Europe after the Bolshevik Revolution, she returned to the USSR in 1939 and took her own life in 1941, leaving behind a body of lyric poetry of rare intensity.

Franklin Stahl is an American molecular biologist and geneticist. With Matthew Meselson, in 1958 he carried out a decisive experiment demonstrating that DNA replication is semiconservative, confirming the model proposed by Watson and Crick.