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Today Google honors India’s “human computer” Shakuntala Devi, a mathematical prodigy who held a Guinness World Record for her lightning-speed calculations. Here are some other badass women who have been doodled:

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Costume designer Edith Head

Celia Cruz, “Queen of Salsa”

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Kenyan activist Wangari Maathai, the first black woman and the first environmentalist to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Rosalind Franklin, the first scientist to photograph DNA

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Frida Kahlo, painter

Amelia Earhart, aviation pioneer

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Martha Graham, the “Picasso of choreography”

Alicia Moreau de Justo, Argentinian human rights advocate

Maria Mitchell, first woman astronomer in the U.S.

And in true Lean In spirit, Google honored the working woman this Labor Day.

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