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Sure, I may be the only person to win a Nobel Prize in 2 different sciences, but my work caused my death from exposure to uranium
A photo of me sticking out my tongue seems to be my most enduring legacies; not my groundbreaking work with the theory of relativity
As an astrophysicist, I made strides in cosmology and the study of black holes despite my slow paralysis from ALS
Born into slavery, I promoted alternative crops to cotton, namely peanuts, and promoted peanut-made products
I was the first ‘Renaissance Man' & history tends to forget my inventions, the helicopter, for example, in favor of my famous paintings
Despite inventing the World Wide Web, I'd wager most people won't get this clue right
I never patented my creations, notably the lightning rod and bifocal glasses, which, in retrospect, was probably not a great idea
My work in helping to sort the chemical elements by their number of protons was a high point compared to my death in World War I
I identified oxygen and hydrogen and helped create the metric system but still wasn't spared from the guillotine during the Reign of Terror
I introduced the theory of evolution and natural selection, which made me the namesake for 'awards' give to stupid people
I helped make the Industrial Revolution possible as a mechanical and civil engineer but died of a stroke at a relatively early age
My laws of motion may be famous, but they didn't help with me with my likely mercury poisoning late in life
I discovered penicillin in 1928, yet only a century later, super bugs (antibiotic resistant bacteria) are a threat to us all
While I may have died of breast cancer, my work as a paleontologist changed thoughts on Jurassic marine fossils
I won a Nobel Prize with my husband in discovering artificial radioactivity - it was in my blood, after all - sadly, I died of leukemia
My work in chemistry and X-rays helped in understanding the DNA structure, but I died long before I was given any credit
My name may be used to denote units of absolute temperature, but Celsius and Fahrenheit are arguably much more widely known
Because I championed heliocentrism, I was tried by the Roman Inquisition and spent the rest of my life under house arrest
I had the distinction of discovering the first object in the Kuiper Belt, Pluto, which was even a planet for a while - then they downgraded it
My study of mountain gorillas and conservationism in Rwanda was the likely cause of my murder there in 1985
I may have been the first American woman in space but it was overshadowed by the media mocking my gender
Despite dying in 1852 from cancer, I am recognized as the world's first computer programmer
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