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Science changed the world. So did the women behind it.

Explore an immersive digital museum celebrating pioneering women whose discoveries transformed physics, medicine, astronomy, computing, chemistry, biology, mathematics, and engineering.

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✦ 50 Women One extraordinary collection.

50

Scientists

13

Nobel Laureates

12

Broad Disciplines

166

Years of History

Featured Exhibit

Marie Curie

Physics and Chemistry

Marie Curie transformed modern physics and chemistry through her research on radioactivity. Working with Pierre Curie and later leading her own laboratory, she helped isolate polonium and radium and developed methods for measuring radioactive substances. She became the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize and the first person awarded Nobel Prizes in two different sciences. During the First World War, she also promoted mobile X-ray units for battlefield medicine.

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