People of science

 

Dorothy Hodgkin

Today another of the amazing women of science Women in Science - Mrs. Dorothy Hodgkin. English biochemist and crystallographer. The beginnings of her career, like that of most women adolescents in the early 20th century, were not easy....

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Maria Kirch

Today, in the post from the Women in Science series, we present one of the first astronomers living at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries, a German woman named Maria Kirch, also known as Maria Winkelmann. Maria never received a...

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Barbara McClintock

Today we will present the profile of the American botanist and geneticist Barbara McClintock. Mrs. Barbara has made many discoveries on the border of these two areas. By examining the genetic structure of maize, she illustrated, among...

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Marie Maynard Daly

The heroine of the next entry in the Women in Science series is Marie Maynard Daly, an American, biochemist. She was the first African-American woman to earn a PhD in chemistry. In her scientific career, she has focused on the...

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Lisa Meitner

In the next post from the Women in Science series, we will introduce Ms Lisa Meitner, one of the most outstanding nuclear scientists, an Austrian of Jewish origin, who worked in Germany during World War II, from where she had to flee -...

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Mary Anning

In today's post from the Women in Science series, we will introduce you to a slightly different profession than usual. It won't be biology or chemistry, but palaeontology. Today - Mary Anning, living at the turn of the 18th and 19th...

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Katherine Johnson

Another great woman in our Women in Science series is Katherine Johnson. American mathematician and computator at NASA. She participated in such space flight projects as the Mercury or Apollo program. Little Katherine showed above-average...

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Stephanie Kwolek

In the next post in the Women in Science series, we will present Ms Stephanie Kwolek, an American of Polish origin. She became famous in the field of chemistry - in 1965 she headed the team that invented the polymer from which kevlar is...

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Virginia Apgar

Most of us have heard about the Apgar scale, especially moms, but do you know who started it? About this in today's entry in the Women in Science series! We are talking about Virgini Apgar, one of the first female medics who chose the...

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