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(2,485 posts)NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)...that for every boy there was a girl.
This generation we are working to change that!
Thanks for the post!
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Yes, I noticed the same thing.
I can't even think of names (well, I just got up, too )
Feminist History group should have lots of interesting additions
CrispyQ
(36,557 posts)Hedy Lamarr: Scientist & Inventor of Spread-Spectrum Technology
http://theamericanshow.com/?p=1602
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What do Caroline Herschel, Ada Lovelace, Mary Somerville, Mary Anning, Lise Meitner, Emmy Noether, Jocelyn Bell, Rosalind Franklin, Vera Rubin, and Hedy Lamarr (among others) have in common? They each made extraordinary scientific discoveries that went unrecognized because they were women, many of them having to endure male colleagues taking credit for their work, then winning Nobel prizes for it. Even Marie Curie sadly the only woman scientist anyone can ever think of was dismissed as little more than her husbands assistant, her Nobel prizes contested by fellow scientists. On December 10, 1911, Marie Curie won her second Nobel, the only person ever to win two Nobels in two different sciences, yet a hundred years later, in 2011, no women were among the nine Nobel winners in the sciences, and women remain severely underrepresented in the STEM professions science, technology, engineering, and math.
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Hedy Lamarr has found a notable male ally in Pulitzer-prize winning science writer Richard Rhodes. His delightful, explosive book entitled Hedys Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, The Most Beautiful Woman in the World has brought significant, well-deserved recognition to this womans remarkable scientific achievements.
As some people do puzzles or watch birds, Hedy invented. As a child from a secular Jewish family in Austria in the 1920s, she absorbed her banker fathers love of knowing how things worked. At sixteen she dropped out of school to pursue a career in acting. Her success was immediate with a groundbreaking film called Ekstase. Rhodes maintains it was a strikingly modern exploration of female sexuality and a reversal of Victorian paternalism. Had the film been released in the 1960s instead of the 1930s, Rhodes speculates, it might have been hailed as feminist.
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I worked at an company that manufactured wireless equipment & the engineering conference room was named Hedy Lamarr.
When I was in 5th grade, our civics teacher mentioned that we'll never know how many inventions were actually made by women, because women couldn't file patents for a long time. She mentioned the irony of inventions that make household chores easier & how likely was it that all of them were created by men, who generally in that time period, didn't do those household chores. That was an eye-opening statement for my young mind.
Great sub-thread.
on edit: add photo!
Little Star
(17,055 posts)elleng
(131,370 posts)jakeXT
(10,575 posts)Gore1FL
(21,165 posts)Carolyn Porco (Ms. Saturn)*
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Ann Druyan (Cosmos, and Voyager)
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Jill Bolte Taylor (Brain Scientist)*
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Grace Hopper (Computer Scientist)
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*Look for these women on TED Talks. They are amazing.
Little Star
(17,055 posts)Maria/Manya Sklodowska (Marie Curie)
The Sklodowski Children (left to right) Zosia, Hela, Manya (the youngest), Joseph, and Bronya
Wladislaw Sklodowski, Maria's father, was also a part of minor noble family that originally owned land in a village Sklody, about a hundred km North from Warsaw. Wladislaw was the first intellectual in his family. He went to study in St. Petersburg and then came back to teach mathematics and physics in Warsaw.
Maria's mother showed the signs of tuberculosis, a deadly disease in these times, shortly after Mania was born. In order not to infect her children, her only love gesture towards Mania, her youngest daughter, was to run her fingers over Mania forehead. Mania never remembers being kissed by her mother, although this is sad, it helped to save her life. According to the doctor advice, Bronislawa was sent to Austrian Alps and later to Nice. Since Sklodowski's could not afford the nurse, Zosia, the oldest daughter accompanied her mother in these travels. In that time Wladyslaw, Maria's father took care of the younger children.
http://www.polishsite.us/index.php/history-and-people/modern-history/476-maria-sklodowska-marie-curie-real-life.html
boston bean
(36,225 posts)Irene was born in Paris on September 12, 1897, the older of two daughters born to Pierre and Marie Curie. She was educated at home by her mother, who won two Nobel prizes- the first for Physics in 1903 for the discovery of radium, which forever changed the fields of chemistry, physics, and medicine, and the second for Chemistry in 1911. A strong and brilliant woman, Marie Curie placed a great deal of importance on her childrens education, and she even formed a special school for Irene and the similarly-gifted children of other academics when the local schools proved too easy for Irenes early and obvious talent in mathematics. Irene completed high school at the College Sevigne and began her undergraduate education in mathematics and physics at the Sorbonne. World War I broke out soon after Irene began her studies, casting its dark shadow over Europe, and Irene interrupted her education to bravely assist her mother setting up portable x ray machines and examining wounded soldiers in the field and military hospitals, efforts which earned her Frances Military Medal.
http://myhero.com/go/hero.asp?hero=Irene_Curie
boston bean
(36,225 posts)Dr. Ride applied to the astronaut program after reading an ad in a newspaper. More than 8,000 men and women applied to the space program that year. Of the 35 individuals accepted, six were women. One was Sally Ride.
http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/whos_who_level2/ride.html
Little Star
(17,055 posts)Political science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government, and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state.[1] It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior. Political scientists "see themselves engaged in revealing the relationships underlying political events and conditions, and from these revelations they attempt to construct general principles about the way the world of politics works."[2] Political science intersects with other fields; including anthropology, public policy, national politics, economics, international relations, comparative politics, psychology, sociology, history, law, and political theory. Although it was codified in the 19th century, when all the social sciences were established, political science has ancient roots; indeed, it originated almost 2,500 years ago with the works of Plato and Aristotle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_science
longship
(40,416 posts)Especially the contributions about women in science. And, yes, I've been a huge fan of Hedy Lamarr.
A big R&K
hlthe2b
(102,509 posts)Rachel Louise Carson (May 27, 1907 April 14, 1964) was an American marine biologist whose book Silent Spring and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement.
Carson began her career as a biologist in the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, and became a full-time nature writer in the 1950s. Her widely praised 1951 bestseller The Sea Around Us won her a U.S. National Book Award, recognition as a gifted writer, and financial security. Her next book, The Edge of the Sea, and the reissued version of her first book, Under the Sea Wind, were also bestsellers. That so-called sea trilogy explores the whole of ocean life from the shores to the surface to the depths.
Late in the 1950s Carson turned her attention to environmental problems she believed were caused by synthetic pesticides. The result was Silent Spring (1962), which brought environmental concerns to an unprecedented share of the American people. It spurred a reversal in national pesticide policy, which led to a nationwide ban on DDT and other pesticides, and it inspired a grassroots environmental movement that led to the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Carson was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Jimmy Carter.
from her wiki page...
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Banning DDT may not have been such a slam dunk after all.
hlthe2b
(102,509 posts)You need to do a bit more reading on DDT and its effectiveness against return of bedbugs. I don't have the time right now to lay it all out for you, but if you really believe in science to back up your claims and not mere assertions, then I challenge you to do that reading from reputable sources. But in short, there is plenty of evidence that bedbugs began developing resistance to DDT well before the ban.
Here's a few reference to help you get started.
http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.3954/1523-5475-25.1.41
Susceptibility of the Bed Bug Cimex lectularius L. (Heteroptera: Cimicidae) Collected in Poultry Production Facilities to Selected Insecticides
C. Dayton Steelman, Allen L. Szalanski, Rebecca Trout, Jackie A. McKern, Cesar Solorzano, and James W. Austin
Journal of Agricultural and Urban Entomology 2008 25 (1), 41-51
Yoon, K. S., Kwon, D. H., Strycharz, J. P., Hollingsworth, C. S., Lee, S. H., and Clark, J. M. (2008). Biochemical and molecular analysis of deltamethrin resistance in the common bed bug (Hemiptera: Cimicidae). Journal of Medical Entomology. 45: 1092-1101. (LRS accesstion #185379)
Zhu, F., Wigginton, J., Romero, A., Moore, A., Ferguson, K., Palli, R.
Palli, S. R. (2010). Widespread distribution of knockdown resistance mutations in the bed bug, Cimex lectularius (Hemiptera: Cimicidae), populations in the United States. Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology. 73: 245-257. (LRS accesstion #188346)
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Although some people with overly rigid ideological biases and calcified, dogmatic mental processes may believe everything is black and white with easily definable "good" and "bad" guys, the fact is, there are shades of grey on many of these matters.
The EPA is an important accomplishment, and R. Carson did some important work; but, again, some of the dogma needs to be re-examined in light of new scientific information. Science challenges dogmas and updates ideas based upon new information. Religious fundamentalism and other forms of ideological bullying, on the other hand, tend to hold on to old, tired, discredited ideas for way too long. Decades, or even more.
Sadly, when some people get older they find it increasingly difficult to adapt to new information, and often this will lead to friction with younger people, who see them as bizarrely out of touch, even.
hlthe2b
(102,509 posts)Arrogant and condescending even to those who have come to your defense in the past. No more.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Anyway, thanks for coming to my defense, if that's what you mean.
I do think that if person A) has a problem with person B), and then with a little digging it becomes pretty damn obvious that person A) has had problems with persons C-Z as well as all the alphanumeric characters on the keyboard, it may be time to consider that maybe person B) wasn't really the issue.
But I digress, and that's more H/M territory anyway. Peace.
hlthe2b
(102,509 posts)Anyone who reads your last reply to me where you suggest I'm too old to get past dogma and AGREE with YOU...." Forget it.
This started out as a nice thread about prominent scientists from history. I guess that some of us are mentioning women worthy of some commendation is what rankles you.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)A lot of great scientists have been women, lots more will be if we dedicate ourselves to not just quality science education but also teaching critical, non dogmatic thinking.
And non dogmatic ways of thinking.
Open Minds. That's what I'm on about.
Shankapotomus
(4,840 posts)Maya Scholar and Archeologist
Major contributor in the decipherment of ancient Maya text.
Shankapotomus
(4,840 posts)Shankapotomus
(4,840 posts)Jim__
(14,094 posts)German mathematician.