physics
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The Women in Science Reading List: The Twenty Best (And Four Not Best) Books To Read and Own
When I first started collecting biographies of female scientists, I thought the genre, thanks to the historical and systemic neglect…
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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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Mad Art Cast: David Nguyen Interview (and get your flu shot!)
Your intrepid co-hosts chat about the new flu vaccine and why you should get yours, plus A brings us another…
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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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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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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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The stars in our cells
A relatively recent study showed that transcription factors tend to hang out in specific areas of the nucleus, clustering like…
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The Illustrated Women In Science: Year One!
Thrill to the jungle-crawling entomology of Maria Merian, cheer at the multi-dimensional mathematics of Maryam Mirzakhani, weep at the tragic…
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