Time travelWhat would science be without these women?
To mark International Women's Day, we went in search of traces of women in history whose research, developments and discoveries still enrich our lives today.
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Gertrude Belle Elion (1918-1999). When her grandfather died of cancer, she decided to study chemistry and research the cure for cancer. She was the only woman in her class to enrol at NYU. Her research made her a pioneer in chemotherapy and she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1989.