6 FEMALE SCIENTISTS
Who Changed The World
Beatrix Potter was a novelist, illustrator, and environmentalist. Her best-selling children's novels, such as The Tale of Peter Rabbit, are her most popular works.
Beatrix Potter
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During MGM's "Golden Age," Hedy Lamarr was an actress. She appeared in films such as Tortilla Flat, Lady of the Tropics, Boom Town, and Samson and Delilah alongside Clark Gable and Spencer Tracey.
Hedy Lamarr
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Marie Curie is the first physicist to have received Nobel Prizes in both physics and chemistry. Curie became a professor of physics after studying at the Sorbonne and established a radiation laboratory.
Madame Marie Curie
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Scientists were overwhelmed by the race to discover the structure of DNA in the 1950s. Still, it was the work of one woman, Rosalind Franklin, that proved crucial in uncovering the double helix.
Rosalind Franklin
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Dorothy Hodgkin, real name Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, née Dorothy Mary Crowfoot, was an English chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964 for discovering the composition of penicillin and vitamin B12.
Dorothy Hodgkin
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Esther Lederberg was a crucial figure in the development of bacterial genetics. She discovered the lambda phage, a bacterial virus commonly used in gene control and genetic recombination research.
Esther Lederberg
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