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BBC History magazine has released the names of 100 women who were voted to have had the most significant impact on world history.

In the year that marks 100 years since some British women first got the vote, the magazine compiled a list of “women who changed the world” chosen by an expert panel.

It then asked members of the public to rank them and the results, according to the magazine, “may well provoke debate.”

In the top spot is scientist Polish-born French scientist Marie Curie, who “changed the world not once but twice,” said the magazine.

Curie founded the new science of radioactivity — even inventing the word — and her discoveries “launched effective cures for cancer.”

Read the full article about women who changed the world by Imogen Calderwood at Global Citizen.