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Amalie Emmy Noether (1882 - 1935)

The theorems of Emmy Noether provide basic understanding of the relation of symmetries and conservation laws in physics.

" ..was born in the stirring days of radioactivity when her parents [Marie and Pierre Curie] were making great discoveries, she grew up with radioactivity, and all her life was devoted to its study." Discovered artificial radioactivity with her husband Frédéric Joliot. Nobel Prize 1935

Irène Joliot-Curie (1897-1956)

Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958)

Best known for her work on DNA.