Alexandra Elbakyan
Alexandra Asanovna Elbakyan is a Kazakhstani computer programmer and creator of the website Sci-Hub, which provides free access to research papers without regard for copyright. According to Elbakyan, Sci-Hub has served over a billion science articles to its visitors since 2011. Elbakyan has been described as "Science's Pirate Queen". In 2016, Nature included her in their top ten people that mattered in science list. Ars Technica has compared her to Aaron Swartz, and The New York Times has compared her to Edward Snowden.
