Rosalind Franklin and her photographic print of a DNA X-ray diffraction pattern known as Photograph 51. Wikimedia In 1952, Rosalind Franklin created an image of DNA via X-ray diffraction, which completely

The untold story of Hedy Lamarr: the glamorous Hollywood star who was also the secret inventor behind modern Wi-Fi.

"Nada en este mundo debe ser temido… solo entendido. Ahora es el momento de comprender más, para que podamos temer menos". — Marie Curie "Nothing in this world is to be feared--only understood.

Those words describe my goals in this world. Am I a Mycologist? Am I a farmer? Am I a women? Am I white? Am I gendered? Am I a skin tone? Am I an economic status? Am I a statement? Am I a language? Am

Donna Strickland, laureada com Nobel de Física 2018(Fonte: University of Waterloo) Ontem postei sobre o Nobel de Física 2018. Você ainda não leu? Confira aqui. Aproveitei que o Nobel de Física premiou

Ada Lovelace, Marie Curie, Jane Goodall, Mae Jemison, and more pio When pioneering scientist Vera Rubin was a little girl in the 1930s, she longed to be an astronomer but had never met a sole person of

G'day Team, Thanks for dropping by again, and welcome to another installment of my series on women in science. Today's contribution was brought to my attention by @amart29. Last time we spoke about Ada

G'day Team, This is part four in my series on female scientists (who aren't Marie Curie) and I'm starting to regret that I don't have more time to dedicate to the topic. This week I wanted to write about

G'day Team, This the third post on my series focusing on women in science, and I must say that each time I start researching who I'm going to write next I'm spoiled for choice. If only for my own personal

G'day team, This is the second post in my series on female scientists. While there are many scientists I'd like to write about because they were overlooked in their own time, today's pick is a little

G’day Team, Whenever asked to produce the names of female scientists I’ve noticed that a lot of us, best intentions or not, seem to have only one we can conjure up on the spot... “Marie Curie”. Now Marie’s

Women in Science Series Contest 1 pre 19th Century Awards I was pleased to see Katsuko Saruhashi as the Google doodle other day. It was fitting given that we are in the midst of the Women in Science contest.

Married to the stars The pillars of modern science are established throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a period of special development of scientific knowledge with great contribution of

The picture was made using Photoshop CS5 . Perhaps catalysis is a term most of us are familiar with, we learn it on school while studying chemistry and it basically relates to the modification of the rate

First of all, I would like to thank @jasonbu for this magnificent competition, which allows us to investigate history and learn that throughout the history of humanity there have been pioneering women

All of us know "Science" with the definition of the set of knowledge that describes, defines and when possible, explains the universe, the matter that constitutes it, the organisms that inhabit it, the

There is no surviving portrait of Hypatia of Alexandria, although she had a notable life and a notable death. Astronomer, philosopher, mathematician plus a powerful respected woman in Alexandria, the date

Women in Science. It does not sound strange; nor contradictory. Yet, this was not always the case. There used to be a tremendous gender gap in science ever since ancient times. Some people still believe

According to the recommendations made by the sponsor of this contest @jasonbu, I decided to deepen the reading of the most successful women in the world of science, and what an interesting topic!. It is

Why Laura Bassi? When I first heard about the Women in Science challenge, I knew I had to participate. The first female scientist I thought of was Marie Curie. I work with ionising radiation on a daily