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Won the world's first national women's vote in 1893.

Found the atomic nucleus and split the atom.

Turned penicillin from curiosity into mass-manufactured medicine.

Acquired immune tolerance, the basis of transplantation.

Voss and the interior epic of the Australian continent.

Shared the DNA structure Nobel.

Conductive polymers — flexible screens and printed electronics.

Founded modern Pacific Island literature in English.

'Our Sea of Islands' reframed the Pacific as vast, not small.

First published Māori novelist; The Whale Rider.

Discovered telomerase, central to ageing and cancer research.

Drank the bacterium to prove ulcers are infectious, not stress.