To solve this science crossword, all you have to do is fill the squares with letters, forming words or phrases, by solving clues, which lead to the answers. You can check your answers below.
ACROSS
3. The first name of the founder of modern nursing who is nicknamed the ‘Lady with the Lamp’
4. English mathematician and writer who helped build the first computer programme (3,8)
7. French physicist and chemist best known for her contributions to radioactivity who in 1911 won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her discovery of the elements polonium and radium (5,5)
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1. The mechanism plants use to convert sunlight into energy
2. What did American inventor Josephine Cochran invent in 1872?
5. English Chemist Rosalind Franklin used a technique called X-ray crystallography in order to help discover the structure of what molecule
6. This essential gas is important so we can breathe.
7. What is the nearest planet to the sun?
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