Meet Rosalind Franklin: Photograph 51
Her X-ray image of DNA was shown to Watson and Crick without her knowledge. She died at thirty-seven, four years before the Nobel that could not be awarded to her.
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Meet Ada Lovelace: The Notes Were the Invention
She was asked to translate an article about a machine that did not exist. Her footnotes were three times longer than the article, and one of them is the first computer program.
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Meet Marie Curie: The Woman Who Refused to Be Impressed
Barred from university at home, she studied in secret, then became the first person to win Nobel Prizes in two different sciences — and gave the discovery away.
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Meet Grace Hopper: Amazing Grace
She taught computers English, taped the first bug into a logbook, and retired from the Navy at seventy-nine.
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