Read the text. What scientists are mentioned and what are their fields of study? What do they have in common? FEMALE SCIENTISTS Changing The World In any web search for the world's famous scientists, Marie Curie always receives a mention. Curie, a Polish and naturalised French physicist and chemist, discovered radiation, helped apply it in the field of X-rays and coined the term radioactivity. She made a huge contribution to science, but was one of the very few women who gained the recognition they deserved. Science was a man's world in the nineteenth century. And yet, Mary Anning became an expert in fossils and geology. Coming from a poor family, she collected fossils on the | Focus 4. Second Edition. Student's Book | 4/100

Marie Curie, a physicist and chemist; Mary Anning, a palaeontologist; Rosalind Franklin, a chemist; Jocelyn Bell Burnell, an astrophysicist;

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