Template:Are You Sure/September 28

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Florence Violet McKenzie with wireless (1922).

• ... that Florence Violet McKenzie OBE, affectionately known as "Mrs Mac", was a pioneer of wireless technology, Australia's first female electrical engineer, founder of the Women's Emergency Signalling Corps (WESC), and lifelong champion of technical education for women?

• ... that mathematician and physicist Martin David Kruskal made fundamental contributions in mathematics and science, ranging from plasma physics to general relativity and from nonlinear analysis to asymptotic analysis; that Kruskal's single most celebrated contribution was the discovery and theory of solitons; that Kruskal was known as a mentor of younger scientists; and that Kruskal was notable for his playfulness?