Women's History Month

Honoring women at the forefront of science

Recommended Reading:

Meet the Woman Who Makes the James Webb Space Telescope Work Jane Rigby, Webb’s operations project scientist, discusses how NASA plans to wring as much science as possible from the $10-billion observatory.

The First Lady of Engineering: Lost Women of Science Podcast, Season 3, Episode 1 Yvonne Y. Clark, known as Y.Y. throughout her career, had a lifetime of groundbreaking achievements as a Black female mechanical engineer. The third season of the Lost Women of Science podcast begins at the start of her story, during her unconventional childhood in the segregated South.

Women Are Creating a New Culture for Astronomy A new generation of scientists are challenging the biased, hierarchical status quo.

The Little-Known Origin Story behind the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics In 1949 physicist Chien-Shiung Wu devised an experiment that documented evidence of entanglement. Her findings have been hidden in plain sight for more than 70 years.

Female Botanist Published the First Ever Photo Book Nineteenth-century researcher Anna Atkins collected specimens of algae and imaged them using the then cutting-edge blueprinting process.

Scientific American April Issue: Learning how the world's biggest animals find their prey could save endandered whales.

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