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1. I was born in 1856 in Columbus, Ohio. I hold patents on more than 35 electrical and mechanical inventions, and am known as the person most responsible for modernizing the railroad.
2. I was born in the Austrian Empire in 1856 and emigrated to the U.S. in 1884. I invented fluorescent lighting, the alternating current (AC) system and a coil which carries my name that is still in use in radio and TV sets.
3. I was born in Vienna, Austria in 1878 and was head of the physics department at the Kaiser-Wilhelm Institute in 1917. I escaped Germany for Sweden in 1938 where I coined the term 'fission' after my nephew and I split the uranium nucleus. I have been called the 'woman behind the atomic bomb.'
4. I was born in Massachusetts in 1848 and as an engineer for the U.S. Electric Lighting Company I supervised the installation of street lights in New York City, Philadelphia, Montreal, and London. In 1884 I became the only African-American member of 'Edison's Pioneers.'
5. I was born in England in 1818. In 1840 I stated a law, now named after me, that heat is produced in a electrical conductor. I also have an international unit of energy named after me.
6. I was born in New York in 1819 and drilled the first oil well in Titusville, PA in 1859 using an old steam engine to power the drill. Most historians trace the start of the oil industry to this venture.
7. I was born in Poland in 1867. My husband and I won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1903 for our discovery of radium. In 1911 I won the Nobel Prize myself in chemistry and thus became the first person to receive the Nobel Prize twice.
8. I was born in England in 1825. By trade a biologist, I was the foremost expounder of Darwinism. I also wrote essays on theology and introduced the term 'agnostic'.
9. I was born in the U.S. in 1912. I was a leading American nuclear chemist. In 1940 I discovered plutonium and worked on the Manhattan Project. In 1951 I shared the Nobel Prize for chemistry.
10. I was born in England in 1749. I investigated the theory that anyone who caught cowpox would be immune to smallpox. I proved the theory correct and developed a vaccination for smallpox.
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