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marie curie was also a bit of a chemisist, but that shouln't really matter i think. She is however, the most obvious choice, (~ there is much information about her)

 

it would be nice perhaps to investigate (emmy?) Noether's life, a very important physicist and mathematician from about 1900. (see e.g http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Noether_Emmy.html )

 

or also nice is perhaps renata kallosh, a theoretical physicist. http://www.witi.com/center/witimuseum/womeninsciencet/1998/061898.shtml

 

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No, no, Aki. Choose a more controversial figure - like Lise Meitner, who was completely ignored by the Nobel Committee who awared the Nobel Prize in physics to her colleague Otto Hahn - for HER discoveries.

 

http://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/meitner.html

 

and

 

http://www.users.bigpond.com/Sinclair/fission/LiseMeitner.html

 

...or if you could write about an astronomr, Cecilia Payne would be a great choice. She was the one who discovered that hydrogen was the most abundant element in the universe, and that our sun had to contain huge amounts of it in order to work:

 

http://www.uuworld.org/2003/01/lookingback.html

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