“I could not help but admire [her] as a woman. The ascent of the steep and rugged path of science has not unfitted her for the drawing room circle; the hours of devotion to close study have not been incompatible with the duties of wife and mother.” Maria Mitchell on Mary Somerville Little did I know !! How painful is ignorance !!! Marie and Irène were the first parent-child couple to have independently won Nobels !! Hodgkin spend most of her working life, teaching chemistry and using X-ray crystallography to study interesting biological molecules. She spent years perfecting the technique, for which she was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1964, and determined the structures of penicillin, vitamin B12 and insulin. Anning helped scientists to draw a picture of the marine world 200 million to 140 million years ago during the Jurassic. She had little formal education and so taught herself anatomy, geology, paleontology and scientific illustration. ... Hershel was the first woman to discover a comet (she discovered eight in total) and the first to have her work published by the Royal Society and named its honorary member. She was also the first British woman to get paid for her scientific work...
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