\n1867 – 1934
\nPoland, France<\/i>
\n
![](\"\/images\/2019\/mariecurie2.jpg\" "\\"Marie")
<\/a>\n-Probably the only one you could readily name
\n-Originally Maria Sk\u0142odowska
\n-Why are these uranium minerals more active than uranium alone<\/a>?
\n-Ah, it’s polonium and radium!
\n-And that’s a Nobel in Physics<\/a>!
\n-Which was almost awarded only to Pierre and to Henri Becquerel before Nobel committee was told “Don’t you fucking dare exclude her!”
\n-Now isolated radium
\n-And now a Nobel in Chemistry!
\n-Explore more uses of radium. What could possibly go wrong?
\n-What do you mean aplastic anemia?!<\/p>\n
Rosalind Franklin<\/b> Lise Meitner<\/b> Rachel Carson<\/b> Maria Goeppert-Mayer<\/b> Mary Anning<\/b> And many many many more. To be continued…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Too often, science has been assigned male. Or at least it’s assumed every major discovery or breakthrough has been achieved by men. And of course for so long it’s been set up so that only men really could. But, even so, a great many women have made significant strides and discoveries in science, much more … Continue reading “Science Is Female”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,32],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-2047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-check-it-out","category-estrogen","category-science","tag-holy-week-2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2047"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2348,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047\/revisions\/2348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n1920 – 1958
\nUK<\/i>
\n-Probably the only other one<\/a> you could readily name
\n-Went from noticing coal has holes in it to x-ray diffraction
\n-Didn’t believe in DNA model building without sufficient data
\n-Wasn’t sure Photo 51<\/a> was sufficient data
\n-Unfortunately for her, Crick and Watson did not share this view
\n-Nor did they believe in not reading others’ semi-confidential data and stealing it
\n-Got trolled into workplace infighting
\n-Would fight you and win
\n-Died of ovarian cancer before she could win Nobel
\n-Is currently in afterlife, pounding her fist while waiting for James Watson, like “Call me Rosy again, motherfucker, I dare you…”<\/p>\n
\n1878 – 1968
\nAustria, Sweden<\/i>
\n![](\"\/images\/2019\/meitner2.jpg\" "\\"Lise")
<\/a>
\n-Responded to Vienna not believing girls should learn math or science with “screw you, I’m doing it anyway”
\n-So she got her doctorate at University of Vienna
\n-Max Planck’s lectures did not allow women to attend, but she did it anyway.
\n-She became his assistant
\n–Her hair did not catch fire.<\/a>
\n-Discovered protactinium.
\n-Then had to get the hell out of Germany and flee to Sweden because World War II and Jewish
\n-Then something weird when a uranium atom got split in half…
\n-Nuclear fission!
\n-Except only her lab partner Otto Hahn<\/a> got the Nobel for it. Typical.
\n-She did share the Enrico Fermi Award with him, though.
\n-Also, meitnerium.
\n-She begged for nuclear fission to not be used for destructive purposes.
\n-Spoiler alert: It was totally used for destructive purposes.<\/p>\n
\n1907 – 1964
\nUS<\/i>
\n![](\"\/images\/2019\/rachelcarson2.jpg\" "\\"Rachel")
<\/a>
\n-Aquatic biologist looking at fish populations
\n-Author of books about the sea
\n-A wild overuse of DDT<\/a> appeared
\n-Used “Silent Spring”
\n-It’s super effective.<\/p>\n
\n1906 – 1972
\nGermany, US<\/i>
\n![](\"\/images\/2019\/goeppertmayer2.jpg\" "\\"Maria")
<\/a>
\n-Got the unit for two-photon absorption cross section named for her.
\n-Figured out nuclear shell model<\/a>.
\n-Second woman to win a Nobel Prize in Physics<\/a>
\n-Worked most of her career in unpaid and volunteer positions<\/a>.
\n-Her facial expression above shows how she felt about this.
\n-She did finally get a full paid position at UC San Diego, three years after which she got the Nobel
\n-Equal pay for equal work!<\/p>\n
\n1799 – 1847
\nUK<\/i>
\n![](\"\/images\/2019\/maryanning2.jpg\" "\\"Mary")
<\/a>
\n-She unearthed and understood fossils, before people really knew extinction was a thing.
\n-Oh, look, an ichthyosaur!
\n-Wow, a pterosaur!
\n-Holy fuck, a plesiosaur<\/a>!!!
\n-Male scientists: “These are huge finds!”
\n-Male scientists: “Oh, did you want credit for any of this? LOL”
\n-Mary Anning: “Have I mentioned those weird rocks you all can’t identify are actually fossilized shit?”<\/p>\n