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Gone, Fission: How Lise Meitner was Written Out of the Nuclear Age. (Women in Science 75!)
To fully appreciate Lise Meitner, you have to first forget everything you learned about the atom in high school. Forget…
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Positive Affirmation Super Moon
I drew something for ya! The most recent and next two full moons in a row are what is called…
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Before There was Sagan: How Helen Sawyer Hogg Brought Astronomy to the People. (Women in Science 74)
Before, “The cosmos is all there is, all there ever was, all there ever will be,” there was, “The stars…
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Monarch of Crystallography: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin and the Structure of Large Molecules. (Women in Science 73)
Two scientists. Two crystallographers. Both successful, but one died young after her most significant discovery was snatched from her, while…
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Erasing Mileva Marić-Einstein, The Woman Behind Einstein’s Math. (Women in Science 72)
Content Note: By the end of this article, you are not going to like Albert Einstein much. If this is…
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Wither: The Many Triumphs and Long Fall of Nuclear Physicist Harriet Brooks. (Women in Science 71)
Reading the life of Harriet Brooks is like watching the gradual, inevitable unfolding of a horror movie. There’s that same…
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She Filled the Sky: The Iron Astronomy of Annie Jump Cannon (Women in Science 70).
350,000 stars classified. It’s one of astronomy’s unbreakable and frankly not even approachable records, the scientific equivalent of the Ripken…
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