women in science
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Astronomy
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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Biology
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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Chemistry
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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Art
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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Comic
Owner of a Lonely Quark: The High Temperature Quantum Chromodynamics of Ágnes Mócsy (Women in Science 68)
When planning a trip to the universe’s first millionth of a second of existence, there are really only two things…
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Biology
Fighting Penicillin’s Monster: Elizabeth Hazen and Rachel Brown. (Women in Science 68)
Who (besides, obviously, bacteria) doesn’t love penicillin? It’s on everybody’s shortlist of the most important things we’ve discovered to improve…
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Biology
When Memory Has Gone: The Neuroscience of Suzanne Corkin (Women in Science 66)
Forgetting is the horrible, beautiful necessity that keeps the past from swallowing the present but that, given too free a…
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Comic
She Sang the Arc Electric: Hertha Marks Ayrton (Women in Science 65).
Sometimes, simplicity dooms. In World War I, chlorine gas rained down upon the British soldiers blearing through their semi-lives in the…
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