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Maria Mitchell, astronomer, discovered a comet and for this discovery she was awarded a gold medal by King Frederick VII of Denmark. In 1848 she became the first female member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1986 for identifying the nerve fiber growth factor. First woman to be admitted to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, appointed senator for life.

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Maria Mitchell

Rita Levi-Montalcini

Iréne Joliot-Curie

Barbara McClintock, Nobel Prize winner for physiology or medicine in 1983 for her research on the mechanisms of genetic inheritance. Over the years she perfected the experiments that led to the discovery of transposable genetic elements.

Iréne Joliot-Curie, daughter of Marie Curie and winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1935 together with her husband Frédéric Joliot, were awarded the prize for discovering artificial radioactivity

Born in 1750, Caroline Lucretia Herschel together with her brother William discovered several comets. She was one of the first two women (the other being Mary Somerville) to be admitted into the Royal Astronomical Society.

Barbara McClintock

Caroline Herschel

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“Whatever decision you have made for your future, you are authorized, and I would say encouraged, to subject it to continuous examination, ready to change it, if it no longer meets your wishes.”

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Books by Chimamanda Ngozi

We Should All Be Feminists (2015) Purple Hibiscus (2017) The danger of a single story (2018) Notes on Grief (2021)

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"Without the love of research, simple knowledge and intelligence cannot make a scientist"

Rita Levi-Montalcini

Turin, 22 April 1909 Rome, 30 December 2012

Iréne Joliot-Curie

Paris, 12 September 1897 – Paris, 17 March 1956

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“If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say"

Barbara McClintock

Hartford, June 16, 1902 – New York, September 2, 1992

Maria Mitchell

Nantucket, 1 August 1818 – Lynn, 28 June 1889

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“In science we need above all imagination. Not everything is mathematics, not everything is logic, but rather poetry and beauty.”

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“The gaze of her who has passed to glory was, while below, turned to the starry Heaven: her comet discoveries, and her share in the undying work of her Brother, William Herschel, shall tell of this to all time"

Caroline Herschel

Hanover, March 16, 1750 – Hanover, January 9, 1848