Women in science history

The discovery of the double helix model of DNA is among the most significant scientific achievements of the last century. Many people believe all the credit belongs to Watson and Crick. It doesn’t.
Even as Marie Curie and her husband Pierre and their daughter Irène and her husband Frederic Joliot-Curie were awarded joint Nobel Prizes, Gerty and Carl Cori were discouraged from working together.
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