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A picture taken in the capital Tehran on July 16, 2017 shows the front pages of Iranian newspapers bearing portraits of the top female scientist Maryam Mirzakhani, who died of cancer a day earlier.
Iranian-born mathematician, who became the first woman to win the coveted Fields Medal in 2014, died on July 15 in a US hospital after the breast cancer she had been battling for four years spread to her bone marrow, at the age of 40. / AFP PHOTO / ATTA KENARE (Photo credit should read ATTA KENARE/AFP/Get — The front pages of Iranian newspapers bearing portraits of the top female scientist Maryam Mirzakhani, who died of cancer July 14, Tehran, Iran, July 16, 2017. — ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images

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