6️⃣8️⃣ Nicole Le Douarin (1930- ) 🇫🇷 #womeninSTEM Developmental biologist, she made a major contribution to our understanding of the formation of the neural crest by creating chick-quail chimeras. The 1st woman who became perpetual secretary of the Académie des sciences.

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