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A look at women who have won Nobel Prizes

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Oct. 5, 2009
Only 38 women have received Nobel Prizes since they were first handed out in 1901. The latest _ Elizabeth H. Blackburn and Carol W. Greider _ shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine with Jack W. Szostak for their work in solving the mystery of...
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A U.S. Air Force B-52 flies over the Vietnam Veterans Memorial during commemoration of 50th anniversary of the war on May 28, 2012 in Washington, DC. President Barack Obama is at the base of the wall left center. More than 58,000 names of the servicemen who were killed or missing in the war are engraved on The Wall. The B-52 bomber was used extensively during the Vietnam War. UPI/Pat Benic