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July 25, 1920, birthday of Rosalind Franklin. She used X-ray crystallography to study the structure of DNA & fighting deadly diseases. Her research on coal lead to the development of carbon-fiber-reinforced materials
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2020-07-25

August 16, 1869, birhday of American Mignon Talbot, the 1st to find and describe a -Podokesaurus holyokensis (now Coelophysis) 🦖
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2019-08-16

Let's hear it for Edith Durham, the first woman Vice-President of the Royal Anthropological Institute . Artefacts collected by Edith in the Balkans (particularly Albania) are in the &

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2019-03-06