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Devdiscourse News Desk | Santiago | Updated: 15-01-2021 00:23 IST | Created: 15-01-2021 00:23 IST
Justicia Espada Acuña studied mathematics after high school although she had an interest in engineering. Image Credit: Google doodle
Happy Birthday Justicia Espada Acuña!!!
Google dedicates a wonderful doodle today to Justicia Espada Acuña, one of the first female engineers in Chile and South America. She was a Chilean civil engineer.
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Justicia Espada Acuña was born on January 14, 1893 in Santiago, Chile. She was the daughter of an engineer, José Acuña Latorre. She studied at the Liceo de Aplicación and then at the Instituto Pedagógico. In 1913, she switched her studies from mathematics to civil engineering, and entered the Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences of the University of Chile, being the only woman among all the students of that faculty.