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- 2. This chemist and physicist discovered several new elements and radioactivity.
- 5. This nuclear physicist, who joined the Manhattan Project, designed an experiment that disproved the law of parity (that like nuclear particles always act alike)
- 6. This English woman is now acknowledged as the world's first computer program.
- 9. This mathematician is quoted as saying "it is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul"
- 11. This woman, born in Alexandria, Egypt circa 350, was an astronomer, philosopher, and the first woman to make a substantial contribution to the development of mathematics.
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- 1. This politician was the first African-American woman elected to the US House of Representatives, and made an unprecedented bid for the presidency in 1972.
- 3. This activist founded her own newspaper and was the first woman to publicly wear pants in Puerto Rico.
- 4. This artist drew on her own life's tragedies and the tradition of Mexican folk art in her paintings, which still captivate viewers today.
- 7. Albert Einstein called this woman "the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began."
- 8. This author became the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize in literature.
- 10. This mathematician submitted mathematical papers under a male name, but was later able to reveal her identity and became the first woman to win a prize from the French Academy of Sciences.