Puzzle 1

Shaping Medicine

Erratum 09:48am 27/06: The word "inherited" in the seventh clue was changed to "was awarded". The PDF has also been updated with this change.

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Google reverse-image search these characters and see how they link to each other.


The characters come in a specific order. How does a triangle differ from a square?

Medical history is full of titans, but how do they square up against each other? Of course, with the good comes the bad, especially as we come full circle...

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... who appeared on the cover of the same magazine 36 years after...
... who completed her postdoctoral training under...
... who developed a surgical procedure to treat the condition named after...
... who founded the medical school attended by...
... who had a famous rivalry with...
... who hails from the same country as...
... who was awarded the same honour a year after...
... who is a professor at the same institution as...
... who named a neonatal assessment score after...
... who won a prize named in part after...
... who won the same award 91 years before...
... who worked on the structure of the same biomolecule as...
... who wrote a biography about the life of...
... whose death could have been prevented by the vaccine developed by...
... whose name featured in a film released a year after the death of...
... whose name is on the workplace of...


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