around two thousand six hundred b.c.e. she practiced medicine and trained more than one hundred midwives. an inscription on a babylonian tablet from one thousand two hundred b.c.e. suggests that the world s first chemist was to put. in addition to creating purr. fumes she developed an app or a this for distilling liquids modern versions of her invention are still in use today. in around the year four hundred hypatia of alexandria was a mathematician and the first woman to give university lectures in philosophy and astronomy she was killed by a mob of christian fanatics. her murder was recorded in the history books but her scientific achievements were not over the centuries women made many more contributions to science. in seven hundred eighty six german born astronomer
caroline harold became the first woman to discover a comet. but female scientists continue to be denied the recognition they deserved . another prominent example is british mathematician ada lovelace she was little appreciated in her time but she is now seen as a pioneer of computer science. in eight hundred forty three she developed the first algorithm for the analytical engine a theoretical prototype of the modern digital computer she s often called the world s first programmer. marie curie did enjoy recognition for her groundbreaking work on radioactivity the polish born scientists share the one nine hundred three nobel prize in physics and later also won the prize for chemistry. austrian physicist lisa meitner was crucially involved in the discovery of nuclear fusion but was not honored with a nobel prize. the same is true of the british chemist roslyn franklin who produced
of the first three chapters of the book have to deal with and the first chapter of this book is about madame curie. why are we talking about madame curie? mechem madame curie comes to the united states in the 1920 s and the reason she comes is remember she had discovered radium, the radioactivity, the problem was she didn t patent it considers these american chemical producers making all of this money on a region and she can t even afford this much of it so that she could do her own research. so she talks to this publicist in the united states aimed missy maloney and she helps her up because what she does is start a campaign and all of these american women are going to raise money so that madame curie can have her reading them so i tell the story about this campaign. what is so funny about this, this little tiny campion says everything about not just how american women are getting defined in the period but also help american science is getting defined because she comes to the
that is amazing, and right now i just started quote koza help which is different, it s fiction. i don t normally read fiction but it s a good read. the author is pamela newkirk, the author of quote collectors from black america. thank you. thank you. .. you might ask, or you might not, you might know the answer, why do we need a women writing science series? the answer is of course that women still are not encouraged by their teachers to enter the scientific field and to stay there, which is really important , retention. that they are not promoted as much. they don t get the best jobs, they don t get the best grades. this is still, by many years of activism on women s part, something that is consistent throughout the scientific field. so, the feminist press, we put together a project and that to project directors are here, florence howe who is the founder of the press, and surely it was the program director of the whole science project, which also has a web site called