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Not counting well-known women science Nobelists like Marie Curie or individuals such as Jane Goodall, Rosalind Franklin, and Rachel Carson, whose names appear in textbooks and, from time to time, even in the popular media, how many prominent or pioneering women scientists can you name? If any of the 10 women listed here sound familiar, we’re impressed. (And if names like Carson and Franklin don’t ring a bell, we recommend reading Britannica’s entry Women in Science).
HS2 has officially launched the first of 10 tunnel boring machines (TBMs) on the £100bn project.
The 2,000 tonne machine, said to be the largest ever used on a UK rail project, will dig the first of a pair of 10-mile long tunnels under the Chiltern Hills over the next three and half years.
Named Florence after the nursing pioneer Florence Nightingale, it was built by Herrenknecht at its factory in south-west Germany and will be operated by Align, a joint venture of Bouygues, Sir Robert McAlpine and VolkerFitzpatrick.
A second machine, Cecilia - named after the astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin - will launch next month to excavate the second tunnel in Buckinghamshire.
Part of HS2 could be named after Nuneaton author George Eliot
It will be down to the nation to decide
Mary Ann Evans, who was better known as George Eliot, was famed for her novels such as Middlemarch and Mill on the Floss
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International Day For Women And Girls In Science 2021: 5 Inspiring Women Of Science
KEY POINTS
Women play an important role in the field of science but are still held back from pursuing the field
From 2014 to 2016, less than 30% of researchers were women, the UN said
Below are five inspiring women of science who have made their mark in the field
Feb. 11 marks the 6th
International Day of Women and Girls In Science, a day to celebrate women and girls in science and to promote their equal access to the field.
Women play an important role in science and technology, but even today, they only represent a small percentage of the world s researchers. According to the United Nations (
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Which role models inspired some of ESO’s astronomers and engineers and why
The achievements and influence of these inspirational female role models in science and engineering To mark the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we spoke to astronomers and engineers at ESO to find out who their female role model in science or engineering is and how they inspired them in their careers. We highlight those inspiring figures in this blog post.
Margaret Burbidge
My favourite female role model is the astronomer Margaret Burbidge, says Paola Amico, a system engineer for the Extremely Large Telescope instruments. Margaret Burbidge was one of the founders of stellar nucleosynthesis, the now well-established theory that chemical elements are formed by nuclear fusion within stars. She later worked on galaxy rotation curves and quasars, discovering the most distant astronomical object then known.