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We owe a number of humanity’s great scientific, mathematical, and technological developments to women even if they often aren’t given the credit they’ve earned. Here are just five of those women. Gladys West
Gladys West is the mathematician you have to thank for not getting lost on your next road trip. Her work on Seasat, an experimental U.S. ocean surveillance satellite designed to provide data on a wide array of oceanographic conditions and features, led to a more well-known technology: the Global Positioning System (GPS). Like the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) mathematicians Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson, West is often called one of history’s “hidden figures”: individuals, often Black women, whose insightful contributions to science went unrecognized in their lifetime because of their race or gender. West wasn’t formally recognized for her
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Female scientists who changed the world – from discovering radioactivity to making Covid-19 vaccines
Charlotte Edwards, Digital Technology and Science Reporter
14 Mar 2021, 7:30
IN honour of Women s History Month we ve rounded up some of the most amazing female scientists you should know about.
From discovering radioactivity to HIV and Covid-19 breakthroughs, these women have changed the world.
Marie Curie
Marie Curie was the first female winner of a Nobel PrizeCredit: Alamy
Born in Poland in 1867, Marie Curie went on to become one of the most famous female scientists in the world.
She is well-known for discovering radioactivity and she invented a mobile X-ray unit that was used in WWI.
Meet 7 groundbreaking Black scientists from the past
From the first treatment for leprosy to the foundation of the global positioning system, Black scientists have long been involved in major scientific developments, despite being pushed to the margins, refused jobs, and denied credit for their discoveries.
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From left to right: Gladys West, Charles Henry Turner, Alice Ball, Percy L. Julian, Sophia B. Jones, Elijah McCoy, Charles Lightfoot Roman.(U.S. Navy, Public domain, DePauw University Archives and Special Collections, Public domain, New York Public Library, Ben Shannon/CBC.)
14 Black Women to Celebrate During Black History Month
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Black History Month is a glorious celebration of the infinite ways that Black people have influenced global culture for centuries. Our innovative and diverse cuisines, music, fashion, hairstyles, art, entertainment, and colloquialisms are often appropriated and imitated by people who value our culture more than our actual lives. But, they can and will never be able to duplicate it.
We are the progenitors of trends and lasting precedents, the barrier breakers, the peacemakers, and when we need to be, the hell raisers to make things happen. The literal chains of Black American’s ancestors begat the enduring weight of systemic racism, prejudice, and oppression on their descendants, yet we continue to rise and thrive as a phenomenal collective. This goes double for Black women; we have to navigate a patriarchal and misogynistic world and are undoubtedly the foundation of Black life and culture. Our contribut
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