For @WomenScienceDay I’d like to make a thread of historical women scientists who don’t always make it into the popular media.
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Alma Howard discovered the cell cycle. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alma_Howard …
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Rosalyn Yalow won the Nobel Prize for inventing the radioimmunoassay, one of the first tools for identifying the concentrations of molecules in biological samples. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalyn_Sussman_Yalow …
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Rita Levi-Montalcini won the Nobel Prize for discovering nerve growth factors. (She lived more than a century and attributed it to taking the growth factors herself!) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Levi-Montalcini …
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Mildred Cohn discovered how ATP (the “energy currency” of the cell) works. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mildred_Cohn …
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Flossie Wong-Staal was the first to clone the HIV virus. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flossie_Wong-Staal …
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Yvonne Barr co-discovered Epstein-Barr Virus. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvonne_Barr …
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Lynn Margulis pioneered the endosymbiotic theory (that organelles within cells such as mitochondria were once free-living single-celled organisms.) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Margulis …
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(These are all biologists btw, obviously this is a selective list.)
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