EARLY WOMEN IN SCIENCE - COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS In case you haven’t seen it yet, I wanted to point everyone to this amazing collection of photographs of women scientists working before the 1970s/1980s (when women were more severely underrepresented in the sciences). This collection was put together by the Smithsonian for International Women’s Day/Women’s History Month. Looking through the photographs is super informative and inspirational – I had never heard of the vast majority of these women! It goes to show how the women who were working in science at the time went unrecognized. And the photographs themselves are truly treasures. So if you haven’t already, I highly recommend you take a look. Some amazing women in the collection include Cornelia Maria Clapp, recipient of the first and second biology PhDs awarded to a woman in the U.S., biochemist Gerty Cori, winner of a Nobel Prize in Medicine, and aviator Jaqueline Cochran, the first woman to break the sound barrier! flickr/photos/smithsonian/sets/72157614810586267/
Posted on: Sat, 03 Aug 2013 11:07:37 +0000