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Barbara McClintock

1902 – 1992

Discovered jumping genes decades before the field caught up.

United States·BiologyNobel

Rachel Carson

1907 – 1964

Silent Spring launched the environmental movement and got DDT banned.

United States·Biology · Literature

Marie Tharp

1920 – 2006

Mapped the ocean floor and proved continental drift.

United States·Biology · Astronomy

Jennifer Doudna

b. 1964

CRISPR gene editing, now in approved sickle-cell therapy.

United States·Chemistry · BiologyNobel