Showing posts with label women in science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label women in science. Show all posts
Saturday, June 6, 2026

Book Review - Writing for Their Lives: America’s Pioneering Female Science Journalists

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  Writing for Their Lives: America's Pioneering Female Science Journalists by Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette MIT Press, 2023. Written from...
Sunday, June 1, 2025

The Legacy of Vannevar Bush (Part 3: Conclusion)

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The response to Pres. Roosevelt’s request closes with Appendix 5: “Report to the Committee of Publication of Scientific Information.” It is ...
Tuesday, June 8, 2021

Nominating Maria Mitchell

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Call for Recommendations: Prominent American Women and the Circulating Collectible Coin Redesign Act of 2020 Thank you for your recommendati...
Tuesday, March 30, 2021

MARIA MITCHELL QUARTER DOLLAR CIRCULATING COMMEMORATIVE

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Maria Mitchell deserves to be honored on the newest series of U.S. circulating commemorative quarter dollars, 2022-2025. She was the first A...
Saturday, March 6, 2021

Unforgotten Sisters: Early History of Women Astronomers

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Most readers will recognize Hypatia of Alexandria and Hildegard von Bingen. However, En-Hedu-Anna of Babylon, Theano the Pythagorean, and Wa...
Friday, January 1, 2021

When Worlds Collide

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Over the course of a couple of weeks, I watched the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn while reading about Bronson Alpha and Bronson Beta app...
Saturday, January 11, 2020

The Madame Curie Complex

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I relied on this book for facts about the women computers at the Harvard Observatory in the late 19 th to mid-20 th  centuries. (That artic...