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All categories Literature & Letters202 Natural Sciences96 Mathematics & Computing36 Medicine & Healing Traditions99 Engineering & Technology24 Society, Peace & Law42 Economics, Business & Politics52 Music & Visual Arts0

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All disciplines Physics32 Chemistry26 Biology36 Astronomy24 Neuroscience2

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Wangari Maathai

1940 – 2011

Green Belt Movement founder; 51 million trees and a democracy campaign.

Kenya·Peace · BiologyNobel

Ahmed Zewail

1946 – 2016

Founded femtochemistry, filming chemical bonds as they break.

Egypt·ChemistryNobel

Mia Couto

b. 1955

Biologist-novelist who reinvented Portuguese in Mozambican terms.

Mozambique·Literature · Biology