The story of a great woman...

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It all begins on June 16, 1965 in New York City,

city that left shortly after being born.

to be raised in the city of Chicago.

And just as when we are little we all want to be astronauts, the first thing Andrea wanted to be was a dancer.

The Apollo program, the inspiration for her to become the first female astronaut, and her mother her greatest support.

And his role model is his chemistry teacher at school.

He started school with a specialization in mathematics but soon switched to physics.

In 1987Andrea, her first year of graduate school at Caltech.

where she and company were able to demonstrate that there was 4 million times the mass of the sun contained within a region that corresponds to the scale of our solar system.

She also developed a technique known as speckle imaging, which combined many short exposures from a telescope into a single, crisper image, and continues to use adaptive optics to further sharpen our view from Earth and compile evidence of young stars at the center of the universe for her research on how stars and their systems evolve.

She said that being a scientist is about being able to address questions that you define yourself. Sometimes there is a lot of freedom: no one tells you what to do. You have to figure it out yourself, but that's an amazing opportunity in life.

In 2020 she was winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics, sharing it with Roger Penrose and Reinhard Genzel. She was recognized for her pioneering contributions to the understanding of supermassive black holes.