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Birth
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Death
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Field
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Contributions
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| Tatyana Afanasyeva
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1876
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1964
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Physics
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statistical mechanics and statistical thermodynamics
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| Elizabeth Alexander
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1908
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1958
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Geology Physics
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Radioastronomy
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| Betsy Johnson
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1929
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Physics
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Plasmas in solids
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| Maria Angela Ardinghelli
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1730
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1825
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Physics, Mathematics, Translator
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| Milla Baldo-Ceonlin
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1924
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2011
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Física de partícules
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| Ida Barney
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1886
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1982
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Astronomy
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| Laura Bassi
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1711
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1778
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Física
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First professor an European university
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| Amanda Bauer
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1979
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Astronomy
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| Jocelyn Bell Burnell
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1943
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Astrofísica
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Descrobriment púlsars
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| Mary Adela Blagg
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1858
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1944
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Astronomy
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| Marietta Blau
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1894
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1970
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Nuclear physics
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Used nuclear emulsions to detect neutrons
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| Lili Bleeker
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1897
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1985
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Optics
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designs and manufacturing of optical devices
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| Erika Böhm-Vitense
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1923
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2017
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Astrophysics
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Known for Cepheid variables and convection in stellar atm.
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| Sophia Brahe
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1556
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1643
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horticulturalist, astronomy, medicine
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Assisted her brother, Tycho Brahe
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| Harriet Brooks
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1876
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1933
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Nuclear physics
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Research on nuclear transmutations
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| Elizabeth Brown
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1830
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1899
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Astronomy
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Es va especialitzar en observacions del sol
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| Yevgenia Bugoslavskaya
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1899
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1960
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Astronomy
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| Margaret Burbidge
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1919
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Astrophysics
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| Katharine Burr Blodgett
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1898
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1979
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Physics Chemistry
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Known for her work on surface chemistry
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| Sidney C. Wolff
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1941
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Astrophysics
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| Marcela Carena
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1962
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Theoretcal Physics
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| Mary Lucy Cartwright
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1900
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1998
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Physics
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Forced nonlinear oscillators
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| Yvette Cauchois
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1908
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1999
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Physics
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Contributions to x-ray spectroscopy and x-ray optics
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| Catherine Cesarsky
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1943
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Astronomy
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| Anja Cetti Andersen
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1965
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Astronomia & Astrofísica
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| Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat
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1923
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Maths and Physics
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Maths to provide a basis for the classical field equations of physics
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| Katherine Clerk Maxwell
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1824
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1886
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Physics
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Observations which supported and contributed to the discoveries of her husband
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| Agnes Mary Clerke
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1842
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1907
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Astronomy
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She was astronomer and writer
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| Fanny Cook Gates
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1872
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1933
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Nuclear physics
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Studied radioactivity
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| Joan Elizabeth Curran
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1916
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1999
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Physics
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Worked in Radar and Nuclear bomb
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| Sanja Damjanović
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1972
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Physics
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| Louise Dolan
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1950
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Mathematical Physics
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| Émilie du Châtelet
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1706
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1749
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Mathematics-Physics-Natural philosopher
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Translation Principia (Newton)
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| Jo Dunkley
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1979
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Astrophysics
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| Eva Ekeblad
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1724
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1786
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Scientist
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Swedish countess who was a salon hostess, agronomist and scientist
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| Debra Elmegreen
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1952
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Astronomy
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1st woman graduated in Princeton in astrophysics
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| Amalia Ercoli Finzi
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1937
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Astrophysics
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Va treballar amb la sonda Philae
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| Priscilla Fairfield Bok
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1896
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1975
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Astronomy
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| Joan Feynman
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1927
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Astrophysics
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| Rosalind Franklin
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1920
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1958
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Chemist, X-ray crystalographer
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DNA structure
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| Helen Freedhoff
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1940
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2017
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Physics
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Interaction of light with atoms
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| Wendy Freedman
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1957
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Astronomy
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Measurement of Hubble constant
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| Charlotte Froese Fischer
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1929
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Mathematics and comuter sciences
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| Charlotta Frölich
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1698
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1770
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Writer agronomist historian poet
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| Mary Katherine Gaillard
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1939
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Theoretcal Physics
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| María José García Borge
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1956
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Física Nuclear
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| Fanny Gates
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1872
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1931
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Physics
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Radioactive materials
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| Sophie Germain
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1776
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1831
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Maths Physics Philosophy
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| Naomi Ginsberg
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1979
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Physics and Chemistry
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| Ellen Gleditsch
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1879
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1968
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Nuclear physics
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| Maria Goeppert Mayer
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1906
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1972
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Theoretcal Physics
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Estructura capes nuclears
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| Daphne Jacson Trust
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1936
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2001
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Nuclear physics
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| Margherita Hack
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1922
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2013
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Astrophysics
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| Jane Hamilton Hall
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1915
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1981
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Physics
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Worked on the Manhattan Project
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| Margrete Heiberg Bose
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1865
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1952
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Física
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| Grete Hermann
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1901
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1984
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Maths Physics Philosophy
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| Shirley Ann Jackson
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1946
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Physics
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| Katherine Johnson
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1918
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Maths
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Calculations of orbital mechanics
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| Irène Joliot-Curie
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1879
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1956
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Physics
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Estudis sobre radioactivitat
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| Lorella Jones
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1943
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1995
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Physics
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| Christine Jones Forman
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Physics nuclear
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| Annie Jump Cannon
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1863
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1941
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Astronomy
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cataloged stars
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| Renata Kallosh
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1943
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Physics
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Supergravity, String theory and Inflationary cosmology
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| Vassiliki Kalogera
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Astrophysics
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| Lisa Kaltenegger
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1977
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Astronomy
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| Elizaveta Karamihailova
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1897
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1968
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Nuclear physics
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Pioneer at the begining of the 20th century
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| Berta Karlik
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1904
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1990
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Physics
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| Marcia Keith
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1859
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1950
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Physics
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| Hedwig Kohn
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1887
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1964
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Physics
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| Pamela L. Gay
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1973
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Astronomy, Education
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| Inge Lehmann
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1885
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1993
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Seismologist
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| Hilde Levi
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1909
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2003
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Radioactivity
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Used radioactive isotopes in biology and medicine
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| Kathleen Lonsdale
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1903
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1971
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Physics
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Benzene ring is flat
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| Margaret Eliza Maltby
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1860
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1944
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Physics
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| Mileva Maric
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1875
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1948
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Physics Mathematics
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| Nergis Mavalvala
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1968
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Physics
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Important role in the 1st observation of gravitational waves
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| Lise Meitner
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1878
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1968
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Nuclear physics
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Estudis sobre radioactivitat i física nuclear
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| Andrea Mia Ghez
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1965
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Astronomy
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| Ann Elizabeth Nelson
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1958
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Física
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| Emmy Noether
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1882
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1935
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Mathematics-Physics
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Teorema de Noether
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| Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen
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1751
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1827
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Astronomy
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| Mazlan Othman
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1951
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Astrophysics
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| Hiranya Peiris
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Astrophysics
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| Agnes Pockels
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1862
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1935
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Chemistry Physics
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| Edith Quimby
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1891
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1982
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Physics and Medical research
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founder of nuclear medicine
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| Helen Quinn
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1943
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Particle Physics
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| Lisa Randall
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1962
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Theoretcal Physics
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| Charlotte Riefenstahl
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1899
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1993
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Physics
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| Vera Rubin
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1928
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Astronomia
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1a observar evidències matèria fosca
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| Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber
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1911
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1998
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Nuclear physics
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Neutrons are emitted in spontaneous fission
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| Deborah Shiu-Ian Jin
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1968
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2016
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Physics
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| Eva Silverstein
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1970
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Theoretcal Physics, Cosmology
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| Marie Sklodowska-Curie
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1867
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1934
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Nuclear physics
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Pionera en radioactivitat
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| Maria Spiropulu
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Experimental Physics
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| Rosalynd Sussman Yalow
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1921
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2011
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Medical Physics
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| Bertha Swirles
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1903
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1999
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Quantum Theory
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| Valery Troitskaya
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1917
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2010
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Geophysics
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| Anne Barbara Underhill
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1920
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2003
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Physics
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| Hendrika Johanna van Leeuwen
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1887
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1974
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Physics
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Early contributions to the theory of magnetism
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| Chien-Shiung Wu
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1912
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1997
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Experimental Physics
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| Toshiko Yuasa
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1909
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1980
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Nuclear physics
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| Agloanice
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2nd-1st BC
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Astronomy
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Greek astronomer
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