#OnThisDay, 20 Apr 1902, Marie and Pierre Curie refine radium chloride. The discovery leads to Marie being the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903.

The Academy originally planned to award only Pierre and Henri Becquerel. Pierre insisted that Marie should also be included.

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This little girl was born in Tokyo in 1920. Her name was Katsuko Saruhashi.

She would grow up to be a geochemist, an expert on acid rain, and help achieve bans on nuclear testing.

Saruhashi was the first woman elected to the Science Council of Japan… 1/8

https://www.maruzen-publishing.co.jp/item/?book_no=302943

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#OnThisDay, 8 Apr 1959, Mary K Hawes initiates a project to create the first universal programming language for computers used by businesses and government. Grace Hopper led the team that then created COBOL. Some mainframes are still using it.

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