Who's the greatest woman scientist?

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Cosmetics company L'Oreal has linkurl:launched;https://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/earth/2008/06/06/sciwomen106.xml a search for the most influential woman scientist of all time. The corporation, which for the past decade has sponsored a linkurl:fellowship program;https://www.the-scientist.com/article/display/20260/ for female researchers, unveiled a linkurl:website;https://www.womeninscience.co.uk/ listing the nominees last Friday (Jun 6). Researchers and academics nominated 39 women scientists, including Hypatia of Alexandria, a mathematician, philosopher, and astronomer who was murdered in 415 BC for her accomplishments, Mary Anning, a 19th century paleontologist, and mycologist, artist and author, linkurl:Beatrix Potter.;https://www.the-scientist.com/news/display/53057/ Among several Nobel laureates on the list are linkurl:Barbara McClintock,;https://www.the-scientist.com/article/display/13699/ who discovered linkurl:transposons,;https://www.the-scientist.com/article/display/15904/ linkurl:Marie Curie,;https://www.the-scientist.com/article/display/21760/ and Howard Hughes Medical Institute physiologist linkurl:Linda Buck,;https://www.hhmi.org/research/investigators/buck_bio.html who linkurl:won;https://www.the-scientist.com/article/display/22434/ a Nobel in 2004 for her work on the molecular and genetic mechanisms underlying olfaction. Visitors to the website can read brief biographies of the women nominated for the award and can vote for their favorite.

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Bob Grant
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From 2017 to 2022, Bob Grant was Editor in Chief of The Scientist, where he started in 2007 as a Staff Writer. Before joining the team, he worked as a reporter at Audubon and earned a master’s degree in science journalism from New York University. In his previous life, he pursued a career in science, getting a bachelor’s degree in wildlife biology from Montana State University and a master’s degree in marine biology from the College of Charleston in South Carolina. Bob edited Reading Frames and other sections of the magazine.
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