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In reply to the discussion: These women have changed the world with science...Too bad a man was given all the credit... [View all]zwyziec
(173 posts)11. And you forgot Marie!
Marie Skłodowska-Curie (7 November 1867 4 July 1934) was a Polish physicist and chemist, working mainly in France, who is famous for her pioneering research on radioactivity.
She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the only woman to win in two fields (2 Nobel awards), and the only person to win in multiple sciences (physics and chemistry). She was the first person to win or share two Nobel Prizes, and remains alone with Linus Pauling as Nobel laureates in two fields each.
She was also the first female professor at the University of Paris, and in 1995 became the first woman to be entombed on her own merits in the Panthéon in Paris.
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These women have changed the world with science...Too bad a man was given all the credit... [View all]
Playinghardball
Sep 2013
OP
silly me, thought women accomplished nothing, until last couple years see all the kick ass women
seabeyond
Sep 2013
#1
It's why I am pissed off at the MRA types who say that if there were no men, we wouldn't even have
Nay
Sep 2013
#28
BTW element #109 was named 'Meitnerium' after her, perhaps in the end a more significant
PoliticAverse
Sep 2013
#27
Well, Rosalind Franklin couldn't win the Nobel because she died before it was awarded.
longship
Sep 2013
#12
back in the 60s a woman, Tikvah Alper, hypothesized the malfolded proteins
magical thyme
Sep 2013
#22
hey, chill. I can't find my paper right now, but may find it tomorrow to link to sourcing
magical thyme
Sep 2013
#33