Women’s role in science
NOV 24, 2010
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.024855
Guardian : Richard Holmes writes a lengthy article for the Guardian on women in science over the past several centuries, based on information gleaned from the Royal Society of London’s archives. He has found that women played a far more important role in the development and dissemination of science than had previously been thought, citing such trailblazing women as the 18th-century figures Caroline Herschel, who discovered two new comets, and Scottish scientific writer and polymath Mary Somerville. Holmes’s book The Age of Wonder won the Royal Society’s Science Books Prize for 2009.
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