Margaret Oakley Dayhoff has been called the “mother and father of bioinformatics” as she was a pioneer of applying mathematics and computational methods to biochemistry.
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Scientists used to think that the adult brain didn’t change, but Dr. Sandrine Thuret has shown that new neurons are still formed.
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March 9th is the anniversary of the announcement of the first discovery of extraterrestrial volcanic activity by astronomer Linda Morabito.
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Dr. Sylvia Wiegand has expanded a successful career in mathematics to also help promote other women working in math and academia.
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Dr. Margaret Chan has faced many challenges as the director-general of the World Health Organization.
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Michele Buchanan is hoping to change the world through her research into energy, and her work at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
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Lynn Margulis’ first paper was rejected 15 times before it was finally published, but her theories of symbiogenesis made a huge impact.
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Dr. Claire Voisin is one of the world’s leading researchers in complex algebraic geometry.
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Kitty O’Brien was the first female engineer hired by NACA, the predecessor of NASA.
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Margaret Knight nearly didn’t get credit for an invention that changed the world: the first machine made to create flat bottomed paper bags.
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