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The world would be a different world without these women who are widely unknown compared to their male counter parts.

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Lise Meitner, (1878-1968) A Jewish scientist, she escaped from the Nazis to Sweden in 1938, and carried out the key calculations that led to the discovery of nuclear fission. Her collaborator, Otto ...

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At the age of 12, Mary Anning was to become one of the most famous popular palaeontologists, with her discovery of a complete Icthyosaur. She was a fossil hunter whose finds made an important ...

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Mary Somerville (1780-1872) was an innovative and talented science communicator, with an extraordinary (and mostly self-taught) grasp of mathematics in an era when most women had no access to formal ...

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Mildred Dresselhaus, often called the "queen of carbon science" has been studying it in various forms for over 50 years. Now, graphene is hailed as a wonder material and using carbon in electronics ...

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