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History World · October 15, 2026

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Sofia Kovalevskaya. Born in 1850, this mathematician became the first woman in modern Europe to hold a full professorship in her field and to edit a major scientific journal. She solved a famous unsolved problem about the motion of a spinning top, winning a prestigious prize named after a French science academy. Where was this person born? Pick the present-day country.

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Russia

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