WOMEN EMANCIPATION

Raden Ayu Kartin

21 April 1879 17 September 1904 Raden Ayu Kartini was born into an aristocratic Javanese family in a time when Java was still part of the Dutch colony, the Dutch East Indies During her seclusion, Kartini continued to educate herself on her own. Because R.A. Kartini could speak Dutch, she acquired several Dutch pen friends. One of them, a girl by the name of Rosa Abendanon, became her very close friend. Books, newspapers and European magazines fed R.A. She also read cultural and scientific magazines as well as the Dutch women's magazine De Hollandsche Lelie, to which she began to send contributions which were published The publication of R.A. Kartini's letters, written by a native Javanese woman, attracted great interest in the Netherlands and Kartini's ideas began to change the way the Dutch viewed native women in Java. Her ideas also provided inspiration for prominent figures in the fight for Independence.

Source: http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kartini

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Karl Zoeppritz
October 22, 1881 - July 20, 1908
Although the Zoeppritz equations are well-known to geophysicists, his working career was a very short one, as he died through illness at the age of 26 He studied geology in Freiburg and Munich, and finished this education in 1905 as a doctor of geology. In 1906 he obtained a degree in teaching and then moved to Gttingen as an assistant to Emil Wiechert Using the theoretical work of Wiechert, Zoeppritz constructed travel-time curves to determine velocitydepth functions Zoeppritz later established formulae for reflection and transmission of elastic waves at a boundary between two elastic media - The Zoeppritz equations When Zoeppritz died, much of his later work was revised by Wiechert, Geiger and Gutenberg, and published after his death.

Source: Ikon Science AVO training course