Astronomer Heidi Hammel began to love astronomy in college, and now has done extensive studies of Neptune and Uranus.
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Hélène Langevin-Joliot had quite a family legacy to live up to as the daughter and granddaughter of Nobel Prize winners, but she wasn’t deterred and has made her own impression on the world of physics.
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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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Mary Jackson carved her own career path in engineering at NASA before switching roles to help others rise to the top.
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Through her work in developmental biology, Anne McLaren helped develop the methods that would allow human in vitro fertilization.
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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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Emmanuelle Charpentier is a Nobel Prize winning microbiologist who helped create CRISPR/Cas9.
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An investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute since 1997, Dr. Jennifer Doudna has been responsible for bettering our understanding of the functions of RNA and for helping develop CRISPR/Cas9.
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Today is Earth Day, and we’re celebrating the work of Dr. Joan Brennecke, who is researching ways to use ionic liquids to develop green processes.
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As a climate researcher, Dr. Alice Larkin is connecting her academic research to policies in various areas to help deal with a changing planet.
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