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His natural philosopher who helped to make some of the major ideas of the Scientific Revolution popular.
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Her french Mathematician and Physicist.
Her 1740 writing known as the "Foundations of Physics" gained her significant notoriety and she became an accepted member of the "Republic of Letters". -
Was an Italian physicist who became the first female professor at a European university in history. Bassi is also known for her contributions to Newtonian physics, and the expansion of that field of research.
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was a Chinese-American physicist, who is most known for her work in nuclear physics. Wu was one of the scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project to develop nuclear weapons during WWII.