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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49273)10/17/2005 3:47:27 AM
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Biography of the Day

Mae JemisonAmerican physician

Mae Jemison, born this day in 1956, was the first African American woman to become an astronaut and spent more than a week orbiting the Earth in the space shuttle Endeavour in 1992.



To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49273)10/20/2005 8:47:58 AM
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Biography of the Day

Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard


Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, a German developmental geneticist who in 1995 was a corecipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for research into early embryonic development, was born this day in 1942.


"When she wants to do something, she does it and does it right. If she lived in the Stone Age, she would have figured out how to make fire."

Geneticist Eric F. Wieschaus on Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard