ABSTRACT
Scientists, Mathematicians, and Inventors provides biographies of 200 men and women who changed the world by leaving lasting legacies in the fields of science, mathematics, and scientific invention. It fills a gap in the biographical reference shelf by offering far more than basic facts about a scientist's life and work: each entry describes not only the immediate effects of the individual's discoveries, but also his or her impact on later scientific findings.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part
The Biographies
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Abel, Niels Henrik
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Agassiz, Louis; Agassiz, Elizabeth
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Agnesi, Maria
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Agricola, Georgius
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Aiken, Howard Hathaway
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Ampère, André
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Appert, Nicolas-François
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Archimedes
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Arrhenius, Svante
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Avogadro, Amedeo
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Babbage, Charles
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Bacon, Francis
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Bardeen, John
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Barton, Clara
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Bateson, William
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Becquerel, Antoine-Henri
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Bell, Alexander Graham
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Bernoulli, Jakob Bernoulli, Johann
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Bessel, Friedrich
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Bessemer, Henry
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Bjerknes, Vilhelm
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Black, Joseph
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Blackwell, Elizabeth
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Bohr, Niels
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Boltzmann, Ludwig
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Boole, George
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Borlaug, Norman Ernest
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Born, Max
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Bose, Satyendranath
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Boyle, Robert
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Brahe, Tycho
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Braille, Louis
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Bramah, Joseph
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Brooks, Harriet
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Brown, Robert
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Buffon, Georges
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Bunsen, Robert
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Burbank, Luther
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Cannon, Annie Jump
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Carnot, Sadi (in full Nicholas-Leonard-Sadi)
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Carothers, Wallace
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Carson, Rachel
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Carver, George Washington
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Cauchy, Augustin-Louis
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Cavendish, Henry
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Chadwick, James
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Clausius, Rudolf
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Comstock, Anna Botsford
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Copernicus, Nicolaus
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Cousteau, Jacques-Yves
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Crick, Francis; Watson, James
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Curie, Marie
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Cuvier, Georges
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Daguerre, Louis
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Dalton, John
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Darby, Abraham
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Darwin, Charles
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Davy, Humphry
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Descartes, René
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Diesel, Rudolf
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Drew, Charles
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Eastman, George
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Edison, Thomas
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Ehrlich, Paul
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Einstein, Albert
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Eratosthenes
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Euclid
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Euler, Leonhard
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Everson, Carrie J.
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Faraday, Michael
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Fermat, Pierre de
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Fermi, Enrico
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Feynman, Richard
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Fibonacci, Leonardo
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Fleming, Alexander
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Ford, Henry
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Franklin, Benjamin
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Franklin, Rosalind
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Fraser-Reid, Bertram
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Freud, Sigmund
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Fuchs, Leonhard
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Galen of Pergamum
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Galilei, Galileo
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Gates, Bill
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Gauss, Carl Friedrich
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Gay-Lussac, Joseph-Louis
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Gell-Mann, Murray
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Germain, Sophie
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Goddard, Robert H
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Goodall, Jane
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Goodyear, Charles
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Gutenberg, Johannes
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Haber, Fritz
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Hahn, Otto
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Hall, Charles; Hall, Julia
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Halley, Edmond
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Hargreaves, James
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Harrison, John
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Harvey, William
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Hawking, Stephen
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Heisenberg, Werner
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Herschel, Caroline Lucretia
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Herschel, William
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Hess, Harry Hammond
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Hippocrates
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Hooke, Robert
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Hopper, Grace Murray
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Howe, Elias
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Hubble, Edwin
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Huygens, Christiaan
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Hypatia of Alexandria
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Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
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Jenner, Edward
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Jones, Amanda
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Joule, James Prescott
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Julian, Percy Lavon
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Just, Ernest Everett
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Kekulé von Stradonitz, August
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Kelvin, Lord (William Thomson)
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Kepler, Johannes
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Al-Khwarizmi, Mohammed ibn Musa
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Koch, Robert
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Kovalevsky, Sonya
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Landsteiner, Karl
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Lavoisier, Antoine
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Leakey, Mary
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Le Châtelier, Henri-Louis
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Leeuwenhoek, Antoni Van
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Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm
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Linnaeus, Carolus
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Lister, Joseph
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Lovelace (Countess of), Augusta Ada
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Lumière, Auguste; Lumière, Louis
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Lyell, Charles
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Malpighi, Marcello
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Marconi, Guglielmo
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Maxwell, James Clerk
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McClintock, Barbara
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McCormick, Cyrus Hall
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Mead, Margaret
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Meitner, Lise
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Mendel, Gregor Johann
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Mendeleyev, Dmitry
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Mercator, Gerardus
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Metchnikoff, Élie
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Mitchell, Maria
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Morgan, Garrett
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Morse, Samuel
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Morton, William
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Newcomen, Thomas
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Newton, Isaac
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Nightingale, Florence
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Noether, Emmy
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Noguchi, Hideyo
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Ohm, Georg
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Oppenheimer, J. Robert
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Otto, Nikolaus August
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Paracelsus
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Paré, Ambroise
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Pascal, Blaise
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Pasteur, Louis
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Pauling, Linus
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Pavlov, Ivan
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Pincus, Gregory
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Planck, Max
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Poincaré, Henri
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Priestley, Joseph
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Pythagoras
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Raman, Chandrasekhara Venkata
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Ar-Razi, Abu Bakr Muhammad
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Roentgen, Wilhelm
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Russell, Bertrand
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Rutherford, Ernest
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Sakharov, Andrey
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Semmelweis, Ignaz
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Sholes, Christopher
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Sikorsky, Igor
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Somerville, Mary Fairfax
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Stephenson, George
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Swallow Richards, Ellen
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Takamine, Jokichi
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Tesla, Nikola
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Torricelli, Evangelista
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Ts'ai Lun
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Vesalius, Andreas
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Volta, Alessandro
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Von Békésy, Georg
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Von Humboldt, Alexander
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Von Neumann, John
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Watson-Watt, Robert
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Watt, James
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Wegener, Alfred Lothar
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Whitney, Eli
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Williams, Daniel Hale
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Wöhler, Friedrich
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Wright, Jane Cooke
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Wright, Orville Wright, Wilbur
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Wu, Chien-Shiung
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Yalow, Rosalyn Sussman
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Yukawa, Hideki
