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Why are there still so few women in science, and how might that affect what we learn from research?
Listen to women scientists.
Learn from women scientists.
Support women scientists.
[A thread] on some women that absolutely fascinate me:
Why are there still so few women in science, and how might that affect what we learn from research?
Listen to women scientists.
Learn from women scientists.
Support women scientists.
[A thread] on some women that absolutely fascinate me:
Marie Curie, the Polish-born French physicist, was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the first person to win it TWICE for her discovery of radium & polonium and her huge contribution to finding treatments for cancer.
Dr Mae Jemison ( @maejemison), the first woman of colour in space, Astronaut, Physician, Engineer, Educator, Futurist, Leader 100 YearStarship, Area Peace Corps Medical Officer, and has been inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame ( @WomenoftheHall)
Inspirational.
Inspirational.
Dr Gladys West, a mathematician who played a pivotal role in the development of GPS technology in the 1950s and 60s.
GPS... where would we be without it?!
GPS... where would we be without it?!
Jane C Wright, another pioneer in cancer research, and contributor to the field of chemotherapy.
...A subject close to us all right?
...A subject close to us all right?
Katherine Johnson, the pioneer mathematician who calculated trajectories for NASA's Apollo space missions
...who’s story is both striking and amazing in its own right.
...who’s story is both striking and amazing in its own right.
Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (also known as Ada Lovelace) is often regarded as the first to recognise the full potential of computers and as one of the first computer programmers.
C O M P U T E R S.
C O M P U T E R S.
Rachel Carson, who’s book Silent Spring, became one of the most influential books in the modern environmental movement and provided the impetus for tighter control of environmental contaminants.
Visionary much?!
Visionary much?!
Mary Anning, one of the most important figures in palaeontology and an inspiration to thousands of girls and boys who would themselves go on to become scientists - having found some of the first known fossils of ancient animals while devoting her life in defiant curiosity.
Rosalind Franklin ( @RosFrankInst), who made a crucial contribution to the discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA.
The possibilities...
The possibilities...
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, a British-born American astronomer who discovered that stars are made mainly of hydrogen and helium and established that stars could be classified according to their temperatures.
Just. What?!! How?! Amazing.
Just. What?!! How?! Amazing.
Alice Catherine Evans, an American scientist whose landmark work on pathogenic bacteria in dairy products was central in gaining acceptance of the pasteurisation process to prevent disease.
Personally a BIG fan of this. Dairy can be prettttty nasty IMO.
Personally a BIG fan of this. Dairy can be prettttty nasty IMO.
From a society that disliked the idea of education for daughters (
) arose one of the great mathematicians of the 18th C. Emilie du Châtelet's commentary on Newton’s Principia included an accessible guide to the main arguments in his gravitational theory of planetary motion 
) arose one of the great mathematicians of the 18th C. Emilie du Châtelet's commentary on Newton’s Principia included an accessible guide to the main arguments in his gravitational theory of planetary motion
Think of a world in which "...talented girls and boys feel free to pursue lives historically perceived as not appropriate for their gender—for the simple reason that it's better for them and it's better for society."
Sounds fair right?
Read more here
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/11/141107-gender-studies-women-scientific-research-feminist/
Sounds fair right?
Read more here
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/11/141107-gender-studies-women-scientific-research-feminist/
