Giving Rosalind Franklin Some Credit
by As we look back on our history we see how science has changed our civilization over time. The increase of knowledge has fueled every country …
Katherine Johnson & The Expansion of Women in Science
by This week, our class focus centered on the role of women in the world of science and technology. As we have learned, the role of …
The Dark Lady of DNA
by The title is the term given by the biographer Brenda Maddox to the tragic life of Rosalind Franklin. Perhaps tragic isn’t the right word, but …
Rachel Louise Carson, Pioneer of the Environmental Movement
by Rachel Louise Carson is an extremely important figure in conservational science, helping prevent people from doing irreversible damage to the environment with pesticides and other …
Bias as Barriers
by Females are always connected with such words as “sympathetic,” “tender,” “weak,” and “emotional” from a long time ago, and these tags based on gender have …
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: A Trailblazer for Women in Astronomy
by Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was born on May 10th, 1900 in Wendover, England. Cecilia Payne was interested in science as a young woman, however, she was not …
Queen of Nuclear Research
by Chien-Shiung Wu was born in Taicang, Jiangsu, China, a small town near Shanghai. Her father was a progressive man who believed that girls should be …
Female Scientists in Public Media
by An interesting fact, I found when browsing online by using the key words such as “scientists + gender”, is that there are many articles and …
Alice Ball, in search of a cure for Leprosy
by Alice Augusta Ball, born in Seattle, Washington on July 24, 1892. She grew up in Seattle and briefly moved to Honolulu for the health of …
Amazing Grace
by Grace Brewster Murray Hopper is not widely known but was a trailblazer in many ways. Hopper was a New York native. She got her masters …