Which drug was the first effective treatment for syphilis?
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Who developed the first chickenpox vaccine used for routine immunization?
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Which technology earned John Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry?
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Lithium-ion batteries
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Conducting polymers
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X-rays
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Who developed the first chickenpox vaccine used for routine immunization?
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Michiaki Takahashi
Which technology earned John Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry?
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Lithium-ion batteries
Which material earned Alan Heeger, Alan MacDiarmid and Hideki Shirakawa the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry?
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Conducting polymers
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Quantum entanglement
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Polymerase chain reaction
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Higgs mechanism
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Quantum theory