women in science
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Biology
Unearthing the World Jurassic: Mary Anning and the Founding of Paleontology (Women In Science 28)
As the tide rolls out, a woman in a hardened bonnet and loose fitting clothes scrambles across the crumbling cliffs…
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Chemistry
Queen of Carbon: The Ongoing Materials Science Legacy Of Mildred Dresselhaus (Women In Science 27)
Carbon. Its astounding versatility is matched only by our total and historic complacency in the face of its wonders.…
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Biology
Adventures in Chimpland: The Primatology Revolution of Jane Goodall. (Women in Science 26)
Of all the figures I’ve done on Women In Science this year, none have evoked such instant and unequivocal expressions…
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Biology
The Secret Life of Hormones: Rosalyn Yalow and the Discovery of Radioimmunoassaying
There’s an unsung immensity in the craft of Measuring Things Better. Within our twisting cleverness for developing better and better…
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Biology
Our Neighbor Australopithecus: The Anthropology of Mary Leakey
The 1960s and early 1970s were the Rock Star era of anthropology, when each year seemed to bring a stunning…
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Astronomy
Summing the Cosmos: Henrietta Swan Leavitt and The Saga of the Cepheid Stars (Women in Science 22)
Astronomy is the sifting science. Its practitioners rake the sky, star by star, collecting and cataloguing, and when they are…
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Comic
ATLAS Soared: Fabiola Gianotti and the Discovery of a Higgs Particle (Women In Science 19)
In a corner of a room, tucked unostentatiously away from the notice of the raving hordes of just barely contained…
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Comic
The Curve Who Became a Witch: The Mathematics of Maria Agnesi (Women In Science 18)
If any century would have favorably understood the manic blend of child shaming and twisted pride that is the typical…
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