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William Shatner

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received very good reviews for his significant role in the Stanley Kramer film Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) and two episodes, "Nick of Time" and "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet," of the science fiction anthology series The Twilight Zone. In the 1963–64 season

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In 1954, he was cast as Ranger Bob on The Canadian Howdy Doody Show.[17] [************] was an understudy to Christopher Plummer; the two would later appear as adversaries in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.

Caz wins the one I picked... AGAIN!

________'s team was responsible for developing in-flight software, which included algorithms designed by various senior scientists for the Apollo command module, lunar lander, and the subsequent Skylab.

Grace Hopper?

_________'s priority alarm displays interrupted the astronauts' normal displays to warn them that there was an emergency "giving the astronauts a go/no go decision (to land or not to land)".

Is this the story of the Hidden Figures?

Margaret Hamilton

This helped her earn a Ph.D. in 1945.[4] She went to Paris in 1947 as a chercheur (post-doctoral researcher) under Jacques Mering at the Laboratoire Central des Services Chimiques de l'Etat, where she became an accomplished X-ray crystallographer.

Marie Curie.

I get that scientists should be celebrities...

____________ was the first to discover and formulate these facts, which in fact constituted the basis for all later attempts to build a model of the molecule. However, Watson, at the time ignorant of the chemistry, failed to comprehend the crucial information, and this led to construction of a wrong model.

Paul Reubens

Francis Crick

In response to your answer, Caz:

Her two A-DNA manuscripts reached Acta Crystallographica in Copenhagen on 6 March 1953, one day before Crick and Watson had completed their model on B-DNA. She must have mailed them while the Cambridge team was building their model, and certainly had written them before she knew of their work.

Venus Williams

Serena Gomez

Rebus-like hint that should give you the name.

First name of famous bus-sitting activist
Hero of time in green tunic - k + d.
The last name of that guy with kite, metal key, and lightning.

Rosalind Franklin