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Hydrogen Rules the Universe: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Composition of Stars (Women in Science 48)
“You are young, and wrong. You must retract.” When fresh-faced zeal confronts experience, it usually loses. Scientists who think they’ve…
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Lemurs, Squirrels, and Hyenas, Oh My! The Animal Behavior Research of Toni Lyn Morelli (Women in Science 47).
Animal behavior research comes with a sense of urgency all its own. Climate change and human encroachment are enacting a…
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Bringing Teleology Back: Agnes Arber’s Neo-Aristotelian Plant Morphology (Women in Science 46)
Evolution is great. As an explanatory idea, as a process governing biology, from just about any aspect you care to…
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Scientist Paper Dolls: The Full Collection
You wanted the set, you got the set! Download your favorites by clicking on their faces. (Please comment below to make…
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Ada Lovelace and the Curious Practice of Programming for Non-Existent Computers (Women in Science 45)
What did Ada Lovelace do? She is one of the most fetishized scientists today – at conventions when I’m taking…
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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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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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