A New Book Profiles Female Scientists Who Changed the World“How many female scientists can you name?
A New Book Profiles Female Scientists Who Changed the World“How many female scientists can you name? In a survey a few years ago, 65 percent of Americans couldn’t name a single female scientist. Ouch.A new book will hopefully help fix that problem. Journalist Rachel Swaby’s Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science—And the World comes out today from Broadway Books. The book collects 52 brief biographies of women in all fields of science, from well-known women like Ada Lovelace and Rosalind Franklinto many, many people I’d never heard of before. Swaby was inspired to write the book, she said, after reading the poorly written 2013 obituary for Yvonne Brill, whose revolutionary contributions to rocket science were buried beneath an opening paragraph about her beef Stroganoff. We got permission to share three biographies from the book. Read them below!” Read the full piece here -- source link
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