{"id":2007,"date":"2021-11-04T22:30:54","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T22:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sophiaphysics.ie\/?page_id=2007"},"modified":"2021-11-13T09:00:20","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T09:00:20","slug":"famous-women-scientists","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sophiaphysics.ie\/index.php\/famous-women-scientists\/","title":{"rendered":"Famous Women Scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background has-medium-font-size has-vivid-green-cyan-background-color\"><strong>Hedy Lemarr<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hedy Lamarr - Austrian-Hungarian Inventor and Hollywood Film star\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/29IEGsjcLe8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn about Hedy Lamarr&#8217;s career as a Hollywood film star and as an inventor of a very useful radio guidance system at the beginning of world war II. The basis of this invention is still used in Bluetooth and WI-FI even today!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Video made by Tara Ryan)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background has-medium-font-size has-vivid-red-background-color\"><strong>Marie Curie<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube aligncenter wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Marie Curie - Polish Physicist and Chemist\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1GZUKiiZyig?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn about Marie Salomea Sk\u0142odowska Curie who did pioneering work on radioactivity.  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