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Who doesn\u2019t love to reminisce about STEM rock stars of yore like Marie Curie and Albert Einstein? I sure do! But while it\u2019s always fun to rap about Curie\u2019s two Nobel Prizes<\/a> and Einstein\u2019s infamous disdain for quantum mechanics<\/a>, it\u2019s easy to forget great science is still happening today, <\/span>right now<\/span><\/i>, all over the world!<\/span><\/p>\n

Here are 5 living STEM leaders your students should know about (in no particular order):<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Andrew Wiles<\/b><\/p>\n

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Wiles is a British mathematician whose claim to fame is solving one of mathematics\u2019 greatest mysteries, the proof for<\/span> Fermat\u2019s Last Theorem<\/a>. The theorem dates back to 1637 and basically says \u201cx<\/span>n<\/span> + y<\/span>n<\/span> = z<\/span>n<\/span> has no whole number solution when n is greater than 2.\u201d Fermat sent the math world into a 300-year tizzy when beside the theorem he wrote, \u201cI have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which, however, the margin is not large enough to contain,\u201d and then promptly died before ever writing it down.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1994, Wiles won the Abel Prize\u2014sometimes called the Nobel of Mathematics\u2014for his proof. Of course, Wiles\u2019 solution is hundreds of pages long and uses methods not available in Fermat\u2019s time, so it\u2019s obviously not the slightly-too-large-to-fit-into-the-margin-of-a-book proof Fermat was thinking of, but Wiles deserves credit for never giving up! His wife deserves credit too for cleaning up after him while he<\/span> spent literally all day in an attic for seven years<\/a> in the throes of proofin\u2019. Gross.<\/span><\/p>\n

2. Tu Youyou<\/b><\/p>\n

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In 2015, Youyou became the<\/span> first Chinese woman to win a Nobel Prize<\/a> for creating an anti-malaria drug that saved the lives of millions of people in tropical regions around the world. Youyou accomplished her feat by extracting the active ingredient in a traditional Chinese method for treating malaria and developing a drug that could be distributed via modern medicine around the world. She\u2019s now the Chief Scientist at the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine. So the next time you\u2019re in a tropical environment swarming with mosquitos so bad you resort to unloading your bug spray directly into the air like it\u2019s a can of Raid, thank Youyou for ensuring you at least won\u2019t catch malaria and die!<\/span><\/p>\n

3. James Watson<\/b><\/p>\n

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The man who helped discover the double-helix structure of DNA<\/a> is still kicking around, though his health is in decline and as a result he\u2019s been hospitalized since 2019. In 1963, he and his colleagues Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the Nobel Prize for their discovery that helped kick off the field of modern genetics.<\/span><\/p>\n

Unfortunately for him, Watson became <\/span>persona non grata <\/span><\/i>after making<\/span> unsupported-by-science<\/a> remarks about racial intelligence in 2007 (guess who he thinks is \u201cgenetically smarter\u201d). In 2014, he sold his Nobel medal out of spite. Even with his ostracization from the scientific community, he<\/span> stood by his racist remarks as late as 2019<\/a>. Though Watson was perhaps the most influential biologist of the twentieth century, his inclusion on this list more than anything is a cautionary tale of what happens when biases trick extremely smart people into believing obviously wrong things.<\/span><\/p>\n

4. Noam Chomsky<\/b><\/p>\n

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Chomsky is often called the \u201cfather of modern linguistics.\u201d His<\/span> groundbreaking theory<\/a> that language is an innate ability all humans are born with kicked off the field of cognitive science in the 1960s as people rushed to test this theory. Remember all those experiments through the 70s and 80s of researchers trying to teach chimps sign language and bringing them home as they would human kids and whatnot? That was all in response to Chomsky\u2019s theory. One famous experiment even involved a chimp named Nim Chimpsky. Alas for the researchers, after decades of trying to teach non-human animals language, they\u2019ve so far achieved<\/span> middling results at best<\/a>, nothing near the human capacity for language\u2014proving Chomsky\u2019s theory is most likely correct.<\/span><\/p>\n

The moral of the story: don\u2019t take a chimp home and try to raise it like your baby. It\u2019ll probably just<\/span> rip your face off<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

5. Wendy Freedman<\/b><\/p>\n

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Freedman led an international team of astronomers in a project to precisely calculate the galactic expansion rate called the Hubble constant. With the most accurate measurements ever, they were able to<\/span> recalculate the age of the universe<\/a> from the previous rough estimate of 10-20 billion years old to 13.7 billion years. Knowing the actual age of the universe is critical to all sorts of other areas of astrophysics, such as understanding dark matter and guessing how the universe might end to make \u201cthis is how the universe ends<\/a>\u201d videos that are cool and also freak people out. Have you ever walked through the astronomy section of a science museum and noticed the \u201cage of the universe\u201d signs have been altered? That\u2019s because of Freedman!<\/span><\/p>\n

Written by: Shana Figueroa<\/span><\/p>\n

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