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Which American marine biologist warned about pesticide dangers in her 1962 book Silent Spring?
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Rachel Carson
Which astronomer became the first woman to win the Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy, in 1934?
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Which geneticist discovered the role of the X chromosome in mammalian female development, a process called X-inactivation?
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Mary Lyon
Which chemist became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry alone, receiving it in 1964?
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Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
Which paleontologist discovered the first known dinosaur eggs in Mongolia during the 1920s?
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Roy Chapman Andrews
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Which astronomer became the first woman to win the Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy, in 1934?
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Which chemist became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry alone, receiving it in 1964?
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Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
Which paleontologist discovered the first known dinosaur eggs in Mongolia during the 1920s?
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Roy Chapman Andrews
Which physicist discovered pulsars in 1967 while studying radio signals from space?
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Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Which chemist shared the 2020 Nobel Prize for developing CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing?
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Jennifer Doudna
Which astronomer showed in 1925 that hydrogen and helium dominate the composition of stars?
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Which bacterium is the main species associated with human dental caries, or tooth decay?
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Streptococcus mutans