Time travelWhat would science be without these women?
To mark International Women's Day, we went in search of traces of women in history whose research, developments and discoveries still enrich our lives today.
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Grace Hopper (1906-1992) designed the compiler that translated written language into the computer coding "0" and "1". She also coined the term "bug" when she removed mothballs from the machine so that it could function again. Grace Hopper was one of the first programmers of the pioneering "Mark I" computer.