Happy Women’s History Month

Dear Reader,   Happy Women’s History Month! To celebrate the occasion, we’ve pulled together a collection of articles from our 176-year archive that are by or about important women scientists. We hope you’ll enjoy reading these contemporaneous accounts of their research on radioactivity, human evolution, climate change, chimps and more. Read these accounts, paywall-free until March 31, 2021: • 1860: Florence Nightingale wrote an article advocating for better nutrition in nursing the sick. • 1911: An in-depth profile of Marie Curie, making the case that she be esteemed with the same respect and scientific authority as her male colleagues. • 1973: An article on the complex motion patterns of the Andromeda Galaxy by Vera Rubin, who pioneered the work on galaxy rotation physics. • 1982: Anthropologist Mary Leaky chronicled her discovery and interpretation of 3.5-million year-old animal tracks she discovered in Tanzania. • 1996: Nobel prize winners Carol W. Greider and Elizabeth H. Blackburn on the discovery of telomeres and telomerase. • 2009: Katey Walter Anthony wrote about her groundbreaking work on melting permafrost and its contribution to climate change. • 2010: Q&A with Jane Goodall on her nearly 50 years of working with chimpanzees. • 2016: Nobel prize winner May Brit-Moser on the brain’s internal GPS system • 2017: How poverty affects the brain, by Kimberly G. Noble. Access 176 years of scientific research and discoveries. Click here to save 25% on a Print & Full Archive Subscription to Scientific American.   Thank you for your support of science journalism in the past and future,   Laura Helmuth Editor in Chief

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