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Photo of Dorothy Crowfoot 
Hodgkin
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
(1910 - 1994)
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1964 

"for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances."

Pioneered the photographic method of studying particle tracks. Photo of Marietta Blau
Marietta Blau
(1894 - 1970)
Photo of Chien-Shiung Wu
Chien-Shiung Wu
(1912 - 1997)
Demonstrated experimentally parity non-conservation in nuclear beta decay.
Discovered nuclear fission and named the process. Photo of Lise Meitner
Lise Meitner
(1878 - 1968)


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