With her studies of the effects of mustard gas, Dr. Charlotte Auerbach helped create the science of mutagenesis.
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Inge Lehmann helped us discover what really lies at the center of our planet.
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You might think you know the story of Florence Nightingale as a pioneer in the nursing profession, but did you know she was also a brilliant statistician?
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Today, meet Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, the woman who changed our view of the universe and the first recipient of the Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy.
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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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Today, we’re celebrating a woman whose work at ILM helped bring Return of the Jedi to life. Happy Star Wars Day and may the force be with you.
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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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Through her work in developmental biology, Anne McLaren helped develop the methods that would allow human in vitro fertilization.
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