Often considered the world's first computer programmer, she wrote the first algorithm intended to be processed by a machine.
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A Nobel Prize-winning geneticist whose work on maize genetics helped establish the concept of genetic recombination
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An actress and inventor who co-invented frequency hopping, a technology that laid the groundwork for modern wireless communications.
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A mathematician whose calculations were critical to the success of NASA's early space missions, including Project Mercury and the Apollo program.
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A Nobel Prize-winning chemist who used X-ray crystallography to determine the structures of important biological molecules, including insulin and vitamin B12
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The inventor of Kevlar, a synthetic fibre that is five times stronger than steel and has revolutionised industries such as bulletproof vests and tire construction
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The first woman to win a Nobel Prize, and the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields (Physics and Chemistry). Her groundbreaking research on radioactivity
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A computer scientist who led the development of software for the Apollo Guidance Computer, a crucial component of the Apollo space program
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A computer scientist and Rear Admiral in the U.S. Navy who developed the first compiler, a program that translates human-readable code into machine language.
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A biophysicist whose X-ray diffraction work was crucial in understanding the structure of DNA, a discovery that revolutionised genetic
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