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Marie Curie is the only person to win Nobels in two sciences 

She won Physics in 1903 for radioactivity and Chemistry in 1911 for isolating radium and polonium. Her notebooks are still so radioactive that reading them requires protective clothing and a signed waiver.

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One photograph revealed the shape of DNA

Rosalind Franklin's X-ray image, known as Photo 51, showed the unmistakable X pattern of a double helix. It took a hundred hours of exposure and settled the structure of life itself.

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The first computer programmer wrote code before computers existed

In 1843 Ada Lovelace published an algorithm for a machine that was never built, and noted it could one day compose music as well as crunch numbers. She saw software a century early.

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