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• ... that chemist and x-ray crystallographer '''[[Rosalind Franklin (nonfiction)|Rosalind Elsie Franklin]]''' made contributions to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal, and graphite;  but although her works on coal and viruses were appreciated in her lifetime, her contributions to the discovery of the structure of DNA were largely recognized posthumously?
• ... that mathematician and physicist '''[[Leonhard Euler (nonfiction)|Leonhard Euler]]''' (15 April 1707 – 18 September 1783) made pioneering discoveries in many branches of mathematics, and that Euler introduce much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, such as the notion of a mathematical function?
 
• ... that '''[[Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|Edward Norton Lorenz]]''' was a pioneer of chaos theory, and that Lorenz introduced the strange attractor notion and coined the term butterfly effect?

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• ... that mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler (15 April 1707 – 18 September 1783) made pioneering discoveries in many branches of mathematics, and that Euler introduce much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, such as the notion of a mathematical function?