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Rosalind Franklin: The Unsung Hero of DNA

Rosalind Franklin: The Unsung Hero of DNA

Rosalind Franklin and her photographic print of a DNA X-ray diffraction pattern known as Photograph 51. Wikimedia In 1952, Rosalind Franklin created an image of DNA via X-ray diffraction, which completely

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epochquill

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The Brains Behind the Beauty: How a Hollywood Icon Secretly Paved the Way for Wi-Fi

The Brains Behind the Beauty: How a Hollywood Icon Secretly Paved the Way for Wi-Fi

The untold story of Hedy Lamarr: the glamorous Hollywood star who was also the secret inventor behind modern Wi-Fi.

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maryed

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[ESP] | [ENG] — ¡Día Internacional de la Mujer y la Niña en la Ciencia! || International Day of Women and Girls in Science!!

[ESP] | [ENG] — ¡Día Internacional de la Mujer y la Niña en la Ciencia! || International Day of Women and Girls in Science!!

"Nada en este mundo debe ser temido… solo entendido. Ahora es el momento de comprender más, para que podamos temer menos". — Marie Curie "Nothing in this world is to be feared--only understood.

avaarvest

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Wild Unknowning

Wild Unknowning

Those words describe my goals in this world. Am I a Mycologist? Am I a farmer? Am I a women? Am I white? Am I gendered? Am I a skin tone? Am I an economic status? Am I a statement? Am I a language? Am

apnigrich

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Getting to Know The History of Minsk

Getting to Know The History of Minsk

Getting to know the history of Minsk

Greetings, friends. In the second half of September, I traveled to Belarus. This was my first trip through a travel agency. I planned this trip back in April. On the morning of April 22, I was standing

fisicanaveia

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Quantas mulheres já ganharam um Nobel de Física?

Quantas mulheres já ganharam um Nobel de Física?

Donna Strickland, laureada com Nobel de Física 2018(Fonte: University of Waterloo) Ontem postei sobre o Nobel de Física 2018. Você ainda não leu? Confira aqui. Aproveitei que o Nobel de Física premiou

mizzermc

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An Illustrated Celebration of Trailblazing Women in Science

An Illustrated Celebration of Trailblazing Women in Science

Ada Lovelace, Marie Curie, Jane Goodall, Mae Jemison, and more pio When pioneering scientist Vera Rubin was a little girl in the 1930s, she longed to be an astronomer but had never met a sole person of

tfcoates

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Hypatia - Female Scientists Who Aren't Marie Curie

Hypatia - Female Scientists Who Aren't Marie Curie

G'day Team, Thanks for dropping by again, and welcome to another installment of my series on women in science. Today's contribution was brought to my attention by @amart29. Last time we spoke about Ada

tfcoates

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Ada Lovelace - Female Scientists Who Aren't Marie Curie

Ada Lovelace - Female Scientists Who Aren't Marie Curie

G'day Team, This is part four in my series on female scientists (who aren't Marie Curie) and I'm starting to regret that I don't have more time to dedicate to the topic. This week I wanted to write about

slothlydoesit

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Slothly Does It! 8 Years on Hive and buzzing more than ever!

Slothly Does It! 8 Years on Hive and buzzing more than ever!

Sloth hits 8 years on Hive, with highs and lows, but a lot of #slothbuzz along the way!

tfcoates

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Lise Meitner - Female Scientists Who Aren't Marie Curie

Lise Meitner - Female Scientists Who Aren't Marie Curie

G'day Team, This the third post on my series focusing on women in science, and I must say that each time I start researching who I'm going to write next I'm spoiled for choice. If only for my own personal

tfcoates

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Elizabeth Blackburn - Female Scientists Who Aren't Marie Curie

Elizabeth Blackburn - Female Scientists Who Aren't Marie Curie

G'day team, This is the second post in my series on female scientists. While there are many scientists I'd like to write about because they were overlooked in their own time, today's pick is a little

tfcoates

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Mary Anning - Female Scientists Who Aren't Mary Curie

Mary Anning - Female Scientists Who Aren't Mary Curie

G’day Team, Whenever asked to produce the names of female scientists I’ve noticed that a lot of us, best intentions or not, seem to have only one we can conjure up on the spot... “Marie Curie”. Now Marie’s

jasonbu

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Women in Science Series Contest 1 pre 19th Century Awards

Women in Science Series Contest 1 pre 19th Century Awards

Women in Science Series Contest 1 pre 19th Century Awards I was pleased to see Katsuko Saruhashi as the Google doodle other day. It was fitting given that we are in the midst of the Women in Science contest.

apnigrich

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Autumn, The Road

Autumn, The Road

Autumn, The Road

Does anyone else remember that on October 6th, in the evening after work, I went on a little trip? Do you remember my post about Makariev? It was October 7th. Then I went to Moscow, or rather, to Volokolamsk.

annycor

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Women in Science Series Contest 1 - Pre 19th Century - 50 SBD Prize Pool

Women in Science Series Contest 1 - Pre 19th Century - 50 SBD Prize Pool

Married to the stars The pillars of modern science are established throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a period of special development of scientific knowledge with great contribution of

neiraurdaneta

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Women in Science Series Contest 1 - Elizabeth Fulhame, the Forgotten Chemist

Women in Science Series Contest 1 - Elizabeth Fulhame, the Forgotten Chemist

The picture was made using Photoshop CS5 . Perhaps catalysis is a term most of us are familiar with, we learn it on school while studying chemistry and it basically relates to the modification of the rate

lauraac

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Women in Science Series Contest 1 - Mary Gaetana Agnesi (1718- 1799)

Women in Science Series Contest 1 - Mary Gaetana Agnesi (1718- 1799)

First of all, I would like to thank @jasonbu for this magnificent competition, which allows us to investigate history and learn that throughout the history of humanity there have been pioneering women

marioberlese

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Women in Science Series Contest 1: Hipatia of Alexandria.

Women in Science Series Contest 1: Hipatia of Alexandria.

All of us know "Science" with the definition of the set of knowledge that describes, defines and when possible, explains the universe, the matter that constitutes it, the organisms that inhabit it, the

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Photography Lovers

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Old Boat.

Decay at a Canal in Amsterdam.

elisea

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Hypatia

There is no surviving portrait of Hypatia of Alexandria, although she had a notable life and a notable death. Astronomer, philosopher, mathematician plus a powerful respected woman in Alexandria, the date

katerinaramm

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Émilie du Châtelet: A Brilliant Mind of the Enlightenment Who Remained in History for the Wrong Reasons

Émilie du Châtelet: A Brilliant Mind of the Enlightenment Who Remained in History for the Wrong Reasons

Women in Science. It does not sound strange; nor contradictory. Yet, this was not always the case. There used to be a tremendous gender gap in science ever since ancient times. Some people still believe

mariu

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WOMEN IN SCIENCE#1.- SOPHIE GERMAIN

WOMEN IN SCIENCE#1.- SOPHIE GERMAIN

According to the recommendations made by the sponsor of this contest @jasonbu, I decided to deepen the reading of the most successful women in the world of science, and what an interesting topic!. It is

tinypaleokitchen

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Women in Science #1: Laura Bassi

Women in Science #1: Laura Bassi

Why Laura Bassi? When I first heard about the Women in Science challenge, I knew I had to participate. The first female scientist I thought of was Marie Curie. I work with ionising radiation on a daily