On May 18th, 1991, Helen Sharman became the first Briton in space when she traveled to the MIR space station.
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Starting in 1985 when she was the first woman to receive the Alan T. Waterman Award, Dr. Jacqueline Barton has been continually honored for her groundbreaking work.
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As one of the daughters of Marie and Pierre Curie, Irene Joliot-Curie was raised in the spotlight of the groundbreaking work of her parents, but still managed to make breakthroughs of her own, earning a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935.
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It’s DNA day, and we’re celebrating the life and work of Rosalind Franklin, who helped discover the molecular structure of DNA, RNA, and even viruses.
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When you got dressed this morning, did you put on something cotton that you didn’t have to iron and it was still presentable? That modern convenience is thanks to chemistry and the work of Dr. Ruth Benerito.
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For World Water Day, we’re learning about a woman who helped use chemistry to bring clean water to the world.
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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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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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Many of the films honored with Oscars throughout the years owe the beauty of their moving images to research scientist Katharine Burr Blodgett.
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Chemist Ida Tacke Noddack was the first woman in Germany to hold a professional position as a chemist, and helped discover the element rhenium.
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