Female Nobel Laureates: an earnest and worthy deathmatch (20-02)

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GregP
GregP
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9:28am, 24 Jan 2020
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I've changed my vote on SF1 to break the deadlock. Both massively admirable women worthy of kicking Mary Curry's academic arse.

I was swung by this about Jody Williams:

<I>"she spent eleven years on various projects related to the wars in Nicaragua and El Salvador, where, according to the Encyclopedia of Human Rights, she "spent the 1980s performing life-threatening human rights work."
GregP
GregP
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9:29am, 24 Jan 2020
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Semis closed.

Nadia Murad Basee Taha, an Iraqi Yazidi human rights activist who lives in Germany. In 2014, she was kidnapped from her hometown Kocho and held by the Islamic State for three months. 14 - 16 Jody Williams, an American political activist known for her work in banning anti-personnel landmines, her defense of human rights, and her efforts to promote new understandings of security in today's world.

"Marie Skłodowska Curie, born Maria Salomea Skłodowska, a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity 28 - 4 Mary Curry Millinery and Boutique, 30 Scotch Street
BT61 7BY Armagh"
Wriggling Snake
Wriggling Snake
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Wriggling Snake
I missed the QFs and Semis, apologies, it seems to have gone quite well.
GregP
GregP
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12:13pm, 24 Jan 2020
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I'm disappointed about Nadia Murad Basee Taha not making the final. But that was a massively strong semi.
Maclennane
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Maclennane
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Wriggling Snake
Wriggling Snake
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5:10pm, 24 Jan 2020
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Wriggling Snake
stop that at once, no sniggering at the back
GregP
GregP
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10:17am, 4 Feb 2020
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GregP
THere we go then.

Jody Williams, (born October 9, 1950, Putney, Vermont, U.S.), American activist who helped found the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL). In 1997 she and the campaign were named corecipients of the Nobel Prize for Peace 7 - 29 Marie Curie, who became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the first person — man or woman — to win the award twice. With her husband Pierre Curie, Marie's efforts led to the discovery of polonium and radium and, after Pierre's death, the further development of X-rays. The famed scientist died in 1934 of aplastic anemia likely caused by exposure to radiation
GregP
GregP
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10:24am, 4 Feb 2020
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We only have one bronze medallist because, it you recall, Marie Curie got through to the semis twice.

This is going to be a headache come SuperDeath, although it will be a blessing if we get a combativité qualifier
GregP
GregP
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5:13pm, 4 Feb 2020
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GregP
This result has to receive some 'indifference' award.
GlennR
GlennR
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5:50pm, 4 Feb 2020
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GlennR
I rather enjoyed this one.

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Maintained by GregP
Deathmatch closed 04/02/20
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GOLD: Marie Curie, who became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the first person — man or woman — to win the award twice. With her husband Pierre Curie, Marie's efforts led to the discovery of polonium and radium and, after Pierre's death, the further development of X-rays. The famed scientist died in 1934 of aplastic anemia likely caused by exposure to radiation

SILVER: Jody Williams, (born October 9, 1950, Putney, Vermont, U.S.), American activist who helped found the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL). In 1997 she and the campaign were named corecipients of the Nobel Prize for Peace

BRONZE: Nadia Murad Basee Taha, an Iraqi Yazidi human rights activist who lives in Germany. In 2014, she was kidnapped from her hometown Kocho and held by the Islamic State for three months.

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