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She Discovered Climate Science. He Got the Credit.

In 1856, Eunice Newton Foote ran a series of experiments that identified carbon dioxide as the gas responsible for warmi...

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She Saw the Comet First. A Man Got the Prize.

On the night of October 1, 1847, Maria Mitchell spotted a comet from a rooftop in Nantucket - becoming the first profess...

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She Found a New Element. The Academy Said No.

In 1939, a thirty-year-old lab assistant in Paris discovered a new element - francium - the last naturally occurring ele...

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  • Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World by Rachel Ignotofsky - Fifty illustrated portraits of women who built science despite the systems designed to exclude them - rendered in ink and precision, the way their subjects deserved.
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