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Mileva Marić is a major character in Margaret Peterson Haddix's 2012 young-adult science-fiction novel Caught, part of "The Missing" series. In 2022 novel Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus, Mileva Marić is twice mentioned as an example of a pioneering woman scientist whose work was subsumed under that of her famous scientist husband.
Killed while covering a foot patrol. The first US military journalist to die in the War in Afghanistan. [11] 10 January 2010: Rupert Hamer: Nawa, Nawa-I-Barakzayi District, Helmand Province: The British Sunday Mirror war correspondent and his photographer were traveling with US troops when their vehicle hit an IED. Hamer died along with a US ...
In addition to the American service members, 168 Afghans were killed in the bombing as they tried to get on board evacuation flights out of the war-torn country.
Miloš Marić (1885–1944), histologist; brother of Mileva Marić; head of the department of histology at the Saratov State University in Russia; researched in the field of mitosis and amitosis, which laid the foundation for cloning; born in Ruma and lived in Novi Sad
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Died Years Nominated Notes 1911: Marie Skłodowska Curie: 7 November 1867 Warsaw, Congress of Poland, Russian Empire [a] 4 July 1934 Passy, Haute-Savoie, French Third Republic [b] 1911: Awarded the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics. [17] 1924: Lise Meitner: 7 November 1878 Vienna, Austria-Hungary [c] 27 October 1968
In a rare show of force, a column of Humvees was used to guard the procession at the funeral of the senior Taliban minister Khalil Haqqani, who was killed in a suicide bombing attack last week.
As a manifestation of the social and political forces at work in Afghanistan, the Herat uprising was the subject of academic research, which has offered contradictory explanations for it. Giorgio Vercellin presented the uprising as an anti-Pashtun movement, driven by the resentment of Persian-speaking communities against Pashtun settlers.