Science
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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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Women in Science: The Card Game. Gameplay Review!
Creating a research lab is tough. You’ve got to recruit people of complementary talents, give them the resources to be…
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The Chemistry of Beauty: Hazel Bishop Betrayed. (Women in Science 69)
Remember a while ago when I said that botanists were the most under-respected members of the scientific community? Well, that’s…
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Book Review: Women in Science: 50 Pioneers Who Changed the World.
Thirty years ago, the genre of Brief Biographical Sketches of Female Scientists offered up a sad handful of essentials: Meyer…
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