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Sunday, October 10, 2010

Scientists A-G

Mary Anning (1799–1847) was a British fossil collector, dealer and palaeontologist. Ichthyosaur
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Anning

Jocelyn Bell Burnell (born 1943) British astrophysicist. Pulsars
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Bell_Burnell

Margaret Cavendish (1623–1673) English aristocrat, a prolific writer, and a scientist. "Blazing World"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Cavendish,_Duchess_of_Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Mary Douglas (1921–2007) British anthropologist. "Purity and Danger"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Douglas

Gertrude Elion (1918–1999) American biochemist and pharmacologist, 1988 Nobel Prize for Medicine. 6-mercaptopurine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_B._Elion

Rosalind Franklin (1920–1958) was a British biophysicist, physicist, chemist, biologist and X-ray crystallographer. DNA.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_Franklin

Jane Goodall (born 1934) British primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist, and UN Messenger of Peace. Chimpanzees.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Goodall