Let's Fire Up Those Neurons!

Aaah no cigar*, I said, but not bad ...... all is not lost yet! :2thumbsup: thinkingsmiley


**I was using that in an idiomatic sense. See: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/close,_but_no_cigar

 

No, but good eye, she died a Victorian.

You are not allowed to reverse-search images on google.
You are permitted to research the clues.

 

Inventor then? But can't find anything in wiki's list of early female inventors.

 

All the clues are already there.
I tried to make the original clue oblique, but I am tickled to see that every one of you got a part of it!
The solution is tantalizingly close!
You need a thesarus.

 

Ada Lovelace.. missed it even though she was one of the two pictured in the list...

 

Yea! Solved.

Ada Lovelace was the daughter of the quintessential romantic poet Lord Byron. She is credited with writing the first computer program, for Babbage's analytical engine, a mechanical computer. The programming language 'Ada' is named for her.

So, Aria got the poet connection and the romantic period.
Laks got the 'internet' bit, just one little step away from 'computer'.
Sandhya got the Victorian period.
You got the 'inventor' bit, ever so close to scientist / mathematician and all that.

Victorian-female-computer -> top hit is Ada Lovelace.

I thought it would be relatively easy since there are so many IT folks on IL - the 'Intro to Computer Science' textbooks all have a picture of her in Chapter 1 or thereabouts!

 

Now try this one. I am unable to decide whether this is hard or easy. This will need some brownian navigation to solve, I know.

Clue: Given this readership, statistically speaking, it should be easy - his distance paradoxically brings him closer to us, but then I am unsure ... you know what they say about the best laid plans of mice and men!

Note: I am not trying to be deliberately obscure. My criterion for choosing these people is that, even if one has never heard of them, they are worth hearing about. I want both the process and the answer to be interesting - I take it for granted that not everyone may have heard of every ostensibly 'famous' person!

Although, this picture is deliciously misleading - love it!

 

Anything to do with Schrodinger's cat?

 

Very tangential, the cat wasn't quite born then - won't lead you to the answer!