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How the rise of Hitler forced great physicists such as Max Born out of 1930s Germany
Winner of two Nobel prizes for her pioneering research into radioactivity
Thousands of scientists moved to deepest Siberia to dedicate their lives to research.
In September 2008, the world's biggest science experiment was switched on.
How Dr John Snow found out the cholera bug was spread through contaminated water in 1854.
