Quah Ah aka Tonita Pena, artist
May 10, 1893-Sept. 9, 1949
Amelia to Zora: Twenty-Six Women Who Changed the World by Cynthia Chin-Lee, illustrated by Megan Halsey and Sean Addy (Charlesbridge, 2005)
A Pueblo painter, Pena’s lively work inspired other women to stretch their artistic bounds.
See a photo of Pena at the Purdue site.
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, astronomer
May 10, 1900-Dec. 7, 1979
Amelia to Zora: Twenty-Six Women Who Changed the World by Cynthia Chin-Lee, illustrated by Megan Halsey and Sean Addy (Charlesbridge, 2005)
“Stellar Atmospheres, A Contribution to the Observational Study of High Temperature in the Reversing Layers of Stars” anyone? That was the title of Payne-Gaposchkin’s dissertation, who excelled at Harvard as a student and a professor.
On a site about Notable American Unitarians, read more about Payne-Gaposchkin.
