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In Focus Podcast | Naming chimps, making room: Jane Goodall’s wild legacy for women in science

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In Focus Podcast | Naming chimps, making room: Jane Goodall’s wild legacy for women in science

On a July morning in 1960, Jane Goodall stepped off a boat onto the shores of Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania. She was 26, untrained by universities, armed only with binoculars, a notebook and patience. What she saw in the forests of Gombe in East Africa altered science itself: chimpanzees who shaped tools, who mourned, who…

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The Nobel Prize has been awarded to women 62 times. Katalin Karikó becomes the 13th to win in Medicine

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The Nobel Prize has been awarded to women 62 times. Katalin Karikó becomes the 13th to win in Medicine

Hungarian biochemist Katalin Kariko attends the Semmelweis Ignac Award in Budapest, Hungary, May 25, 2021. Two scientists have won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday, Oct. 2, 2023 for discoveries that enabled the development of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19. The award was given to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman. Karikó is a professor at…

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