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Beautiful Brainiacs Quiz

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It is often said that beauty and intelligence don’t go together, but that’s not true. Especially when it comes to women. For many of them, the real beauty is in the way their amazing minds can see the world around us. Here, I present you ten very special ladies. They are Nobel Prize awarded scientists in fields of Physics, Chemistry and Physiology or Medicine. This quiz is an homage to their everlasting legacy in making the world safer and better place for us.

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    She won The Nobel Prize in Physics 1963, for her discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure. What is her name?

    • Maria Curie Sklodowska
    • Lise Maitner
    • Maria Goeppert Mayer
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    She won The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009, for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome. What is her name?

    • Ada E. Yonath
    • Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
    • Linda B. Buck
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    She won The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2015, for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria. What is her name?

    • Ming Na Wen
    • Youyou Tu
    • Vanessa Mae
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    She won The Nobel Prize in Physics 1903, in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel. What is her name?

    • Irene Joliot Curie
    • Maria Curie Sklodowska
    • Gertrude B. Ellion
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    She won The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1964, for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances. What is her name?

    • Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
    • Gerty Theresa Cori Radnitz
    • Wislawa Szymborska
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    She won The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014, for her discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain. What is her name?

    • Herta MΓΌller
    • May-Britt Moser
    • Jody Williams
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    She won The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935, in recognition of her synthesis of new radioactive elements. What is her name?

    • Irene Joliot Curie
    • FranΓ§oise BarrΓ©-Sinoussi
    • Gabriela Mistral
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    She won The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009, for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase. What is her name?

    • Elizabeth H. Blackburn
    • Rosalyn Yalow
    • Mairead Corrigan
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    She won The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1947, for her discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen. What is her name?

    • Gerty Theresa Cori
    • Sigrid Undset
    • Grazia Deledda
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    She won The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1977, for the development of radioimmunoassays of peptide hormones. What is her name?

    • Rita Levi-Montalcini
    • Rosalyn Yalow
    • Christiane NΓΌsslein-Volhard

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Written by Zaklina Maca Miljkovic

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  4. Got 3/10 for this quiz…very nice quiz u got Zaklina..good job..I only know Marie Curie who is also Marja Sklodowska in Polish name…Just wanna ask what is her relation to Irene Curie…Curies are really great when it comes to radioactive discoveries.. πŸ™‚

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