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German physician who rigorously identified the bacteria behind anthrax, tuberculosis, and cholera, establishing the criteria science still u

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The British nurse and statistician who founded modern professional nursing and used statistics to prove that hygiene saved more lives than t

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The first woman to earn a formal medical degree in the United States, opening the medical profession to generations of women who followed he

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English surgeon who introduced antiseptic technique into the operating room, drastically cutting infection deaths and becoming known as the

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English country physician who created the world's first vaccine, against smallpox, founding the science of immunology and saving millions of

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Indian-American astrophysicist who calculated the maximum mass a white dwarf star can sustain, opening the door to understanding the fate of

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Muslim mathematician and astronomer who established algebra as an independent branch of mathematics; the words «algorithm» and «algebra» der

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British chemist who revived the atomic theory of matter on rigorous experimental foundations, proposing that each chemical element consists

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Irish natural philosopher regarded as one of the founders of modern chemistry as an experimental science independent of alchemy, famed for h

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American chemist who founded the modern understanding of chemical bonding, the only person in history to win two unshared Nobel Prizes in di

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British chemist who advanced X-ray crystallography techniques to reveal the three-dimensional structures of penicillin, insulin, and vitamin

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Austrian-Swedish physicist who theoretically explained nuclear fission, though the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery was awarded so

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