Which geneticist was the first woman to win the National Medal of Science?
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Barbara McClintock
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Which geneticist was the first woman to win the National Medal of Science?
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Barbara McClintock
Which mathematician proved the Noether theorem linking symmetries with conservation laws?
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Emmy Noether
Which scientist’s 1952 X-ray image of DNA became known as Photograph 51?
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Rosalind Franklin
Which scientist won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering radium and polonium?
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Marie Curie
Which marine biologist wrote Silent Spring, published in 1962?
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Rachel Carson
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Which scientist’s 1952 X-ray image of DNA became known as Photograph 51?
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Rosalind Franklin
Which marine biologist wrote Silent Spring, published in 1962?
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Rachel Carson
Which chemist determined the structure of penicillin using X-ray crystallography?
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Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
Which scientist discovered transposons, or “jumping genes,” in maize?
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Barbara McClintock
Which astronomer discovered that stars are mainly composed of hydrogen and helium?
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Which scientist developed the first widely used vaccine against smallpox?
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Edward Jenner
Which British scientist discovered pulsars in 1967 as a graduate student?
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Jocelyn Bell Burnell