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Finding Dulcinea: Marie Curie

For Students 9th - 10th
Article on Marie Curie, who won two Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry for her discoveries in radioactivity and radioactive elements.
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Science Museum, London

Science Museum: Online Stuff: Marie Curie and the History of Radioactivity

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about Nobel Prize winner, Marie Curie's life, and her historical work with radioactivity.
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Authors Calendar

Author's Calendar: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

For Students 9th - 10th
Biography of Nobel Prize winner, Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Willem Einthoven

For Students 9th - 10th
Willem Einthoven invented a string galvanometer that lead to the electrocardiogram, which measures heart activity. For his discovery, Einthoven was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1924.
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Paul Lauterbur

For Students 9th - 10th
Chemist Paul Lauterbur pioneered the use of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) for medical imaging. He developed a technique, now known as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), in the early 1970s that involves the introduction of gradients in...
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Wolfgang Pauli

For Students 9th - 10th
Austrian-born scientist Wolfgang Ernst Pauli made numerous important contributions to twentieth-century theoretical physics, including explaining the Zeeman effect, first postulating the existence of the neutrino, and developing what has...
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PBS

Pbs American Masters: Isaac Bashevis Singer

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief but interesting biography on Isaac Bashevis Singer, who won a Nobel Prize for literature.
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Famous Scientists

Famous Scientists: Arnold Sommerfeld

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the scientist who pioneered developments in atomic and quantum physics, and also served as PhD supervisor for many Nobel Prize winners in physics and chemistry.
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Article
Famous Scientists

Famous Scientists: Artturi Virtanen

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how Artturi Virtanen's inventions and research in agricultural and nutrition chemistry made him a Nobel Prize Laureate.
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Famous Scientists

Famous Scientists: Bernardo Houssay

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out about Bernardo Alberto Houssay, the first Latin American and Argentine to receive the Nobel Prize for his research on the role that pituitary hormones play in sugar metabolism.
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Famous Scientists

Famous Scientists: C. V. Raman

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the Indian physicist who carried out ground-breaking work in the field of light scattering which earned him the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physics.
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Famous Scientists

Famous Scientists: Charles Sherrington

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about Charles Sherrington, the Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the functions of neurons.
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Famous Scientists

Famous Scientists: Chen Ning Yang

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the Nobel Prize winning physicist who works on statistical mechanics and particle physics.
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Famous Scientists

Famous Scientists: Christiane Nusslein Volhard

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out about the German biologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her research on the genetic control of embryonic development.
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Famous Scientists

Famous Scientists: Dorothy Hodgkin

For Students 9th - 10th
A short biography about Dorothy Hodgkin, a British biochemist who developed protein crystallography, for which she won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964.
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Famous Scientists

Famous Scientists: Emil Adolf Behring

For Students 9th - 10th
A short biography about the German physiologist who received the first Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of a diphtheria antitoxin.
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Famous Scientists

Famous Scientists: Francis Crick

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover Francis Crick, British molecular biologist, physicist, and neuroscientist who jointly won a Nobel Prize for his discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids.
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Famous Scientists

Famous Scientists: Frederick Gowland Hopkins

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the British biochemist who received the 1929 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the study of essential nutrient factors needed for animals.
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Famous Scientists

Famous Scientists: Gertrude Elion

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about a the scientist who won a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her work in the scientific discovery of drugs to treat leukemia and herpes, and to prevent the rejection of kidney transplants.
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Famous Scientists

Famous Scientists: Gerty Theresa Cori

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the first American woman to achieve the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with her discoveries in biochemistry, especially carbohydrate metabolism.
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Famous Scientists

Famous Scientists: Glenn Seaborg

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about Glenn Seaborg, the man who took part in the discovery of ten of the periodic table's chemical elements, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1951.
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Famous Scientists

Famous Scientists: Max Von Laue

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about Nobel Prize winner Max von Laue in this article about his life and discoveries.
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Famous Scientists: Rita Levi Montalcini

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the life and discoveries of Nobel Prize winner Rita Levi-Montalcini in this article.
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Famous Scientists: Thomas Hunt Morgan

For Students 9th - 10th
A short biography of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1933 for discoveries elucidating the role that the chromosome plays in heredity.

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