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What Louisiana rice fritter, traditionally made with leftover cooked rice, was sold by street vendors?

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Calas

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Which chemist produced X-ray diffraction evidence that helped reveal DNA’s structure, including Photo 51?

Answer

Rosalind Franklin

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Who became the first woman to receive the ACM A.M. Turing Award, winning it in 2006?

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Frances E. Allen

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Which British zoologist studied chimpanzees for decades at Tanzania’s Gombe Stream National Park?

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Jane Goodall

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Which mathematician became the first woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics in modern Europe, in 1874?

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Sofia Kovalevskaya

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Which physicist developed the technique of radioimmunoassay and won the 1977 Nobel Prize in Medicine?

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Rosalyn Yalow

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Which scientist developed the first successful treatment for leprosy from the oil of the chaulmoogra tree?

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Alice Ball

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Which astronomer found strong evidence for dark matter by studying galaxy rotation in the 1970s?

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Vera Rubin

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Which biochemist shared the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries enabling mRNA vaccines?

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Katalin Karikó

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Which chemist developed the first practical method for producing pure silicon for transistors?

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Gordon Teal

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Which physicist discovered the Mössbauer effect in 1958?

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Rudolf Mössbauer

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Which biochemist discovered the first restriction enzyme, HindII, in 1970?

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Hamilton Smith

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