Meet Gerty Cori, the Nobel-winning biochemist who uncovered how the body stores and consumes sugars
Cori's work determined glycogen storage "disease" had several subtypes, each with a unique molecular cause
Meet Nobel Prize winner Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, who let doctors see into your blood
Her radioimmunoassay technique enabled scientists to measure hundreds of trace biological substances for the first time
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Meet Lise Meitner, the physicist who discovered how to split an atom
Her discovery of nuclear fission led the way to nuclear power—and the Cold War
Meet the barrier-breaking physicist hunting gravity with lasers
Nergis Mavalvala explores gravitational waves and quantum physics
5 facts about Marie Curie, chemist, physicist, and Nobel legend
She was the first woman to win one – much less two – Nobel Prizes
5 facts about Rosalind Franklin, DNA pioneer
She helped discover DNA, got snubbed by her contemporaries, and kept right on going
The science Nobel Prizes are sexist, racist, and misleading. Let's rethink them
We should be rewarding discoveries, not individuals
Five facts about Linda Buck, olfactory pioneer
The Nobel Prize-winning biologist revolutionized how we think about our noses
Meet Chien-Shiung Wu, the "Queen of Nuclear Research" and destroyer of natural laws
Chien-Shiung Wu conducted some of the most elegant particle physics experiments of her time