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Top 10 Women Scientists

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Marie Curie – Discovered Radium and Polonium and developed uses for both; first female to win Nobel Prize

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Jane Goodall – Famous primatologist known for research with Chimpanzees

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Gertrude B. Elion – Helped develop many drug treatments, including AZT, the first successful AIDS drug

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Rita Levi-Montalcini – Neurologist known for important findings in nerve growth; won Nobel Prize in 1986

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Rosalind Franklin – Helped to find the structure of DNA; one of the most influential biochemists

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Chien-Shiung Wu – Physicist who worked on the Manhattan project and research with Uranium; considered the “Chinese Marie Curie”

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Maria Mitchell – First American female to become professional astronomer; discovered a comet

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Lise Meitner – Helped discover nuclear fission and was snubbed from winning Nobel prize

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Caroline Herschel – Was the UK's first woman scientist; helped discover many comets

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Jocelyn Bell Burnel – Discovered radio pulsars and won the Nobel Prize

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