Which microbiologist discovered bacteriophage lambda while studying Escherichia coli in 1950?
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Esther Lederberg
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Which microbiologist discovered bacteriophage lambda while studying Escherichia coli in 1950?
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Esther Lederberg
Which chemist developed the first accurate three-dimensional structure of a protein, insulin, in 1969?
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Dorothy Hodgkin
Which physicist’s 1956 experiment showed that parity is not conserved in weak nuclear interactions?
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Chien-Shiung Wu
Which mathematician calculated rocket trajectories for NASA’s early crewed spaceflights at the Langley Research Center?
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Katherine Johnson
Which mathematician’s 1918 theorem connected continuous symmetries with conservation laws in physics?
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Emmy Noether
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