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Biology
Guns N Taxonomy: The Vertebrate Biology of Annie Alexander (Women in Science 44)
As a rule, our favorite flavors of scientist are the theoretical and experimental – we tend to like them either…
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First: The Astrophysics and Astronautics of Sally Ride. (Women in Science 43)
Heroes are supposed to be monodimensional, startling and exceptional in one narrow aspect of life and a complex, barely functioning…
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Biology
Gotta Formalin ’em All: The Marine Biology of Eugenie Clark, The Shark Lady. (Women in Science 42)
To the uninitiated, there seems a dizzying amount of carnage wrapped up in advancing biological knowledge. Every scrap of information…
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Comic
Corralling the Light Elements: The Nuclear Spectroscopy of Fay Ajzenberg-Selove (Women in Science 41)
In the opening days of the Nazi attack on France, a Jewish engineer took his family aside and instructed them…
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Comic
Quantizing the Nucleus: Maria Goeppert-Mayer and the Creation of Nuclear Shell Theory (Women in Science 40)
How does radioactive decay know when to stop? When Uranium-238 breaks up, it goes through twenty-two intermediate isotopes before finally…
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Biology
Lymph, There It Is: Florence Sabin, Pioneer Woman of Medical Research (Women in Science 39)
For women in science, posterity has three fates in store. Some, like Marie Curie or Rosalyn Yalow, are recognized in…
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Astronomy
Computing Venus: The Astronomy of Maria Mitchell (Women in Science 38)
In the early nineteenth century nothing about the island of Nantucket made sense. It was simultaneously a hotbed of Quakerism…
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Biology
Gerty Radnitz Cori: Glycogen to Glucose, and Back Again (Women in Science 37)
For a science teacher, perhaps the most dreaded question is “What Is Energy?” Sure, we have a standard answer –…
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