women in science
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Comic
Generations: The Story of Women in Neutrino Research (Women in Science 78).
The most powerful force in the study of physics is not gravity or electromagnetism. It is not love, or courage.…
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Biology
Milk and Blood: Icie Macy Hoobler and the Science of Infant-Mother Nutrition. (Women in Science 77).
A young mother of the early twentieth century who couldn’t or didn’t want to breast feed was a creature entirely…
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Biology
Octopuses at Work and Play: Jennifer Mather and Cephalopod Cognition. (Women in Science 76)
On paper, the octopus looks like a mythical beast we made up by combining all of the most outlandish bits…
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Chemistry
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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Astronomy
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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Biology
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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Comic
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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Comic
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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