Well-behaved women rarely make history. Perhaps that's because we're still teaching history as if we're living in the 1920s. The only woman scientist most people can name from their head is probably just Marie Curie. Yet, there are numerous scientists. Just to give you an idea, the first chemist in the world was a perfume maker in ancient Babylon (1200 BCE) who was a woman. Her name was Tapputi. She was also an overseer at the Royal Palace and worked with another woman researcher whose name unfortunately has been lost.
Women scientists are unfortunately relegated to the bottom heap of known scientists. Here are a couple of scientists who made major contributions and yet no one knows about them. By the way, several of these are not scientists. Can you find who they are?
By the way, for a full list of underrated and frequently forgotten amazing women through history, check out Rejected Princesses. The website also has a store where you can buy books if you're the print version kind of person: https://www.rejectedprincesses.com/
Annie Jump Cannon
American astronomer who in 1901 published the first catalog of stellar spectra, which classified stars by temperature. This method was universally adopted by other astronomers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Jump_Cannon
https://www.rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/annie-jump-cannon
Catherine Miles Baker
https://cmilesbaker.wordpress.com/category/works-in-progress/
Judith Love Cohen
Judith Love Cohen (August 16, 1933 – July 25, 2016) was an American aerospace engineer. Cohen worked as an electrical engineer on the Minuteman missile, the science ground station for the Hubble Space Telescope, the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, and the Apollo Space Program. After her retirement as an engineer, she founded a children's multimedia publishing company, eventually publishing more than 20 titles before her death in 2016. Cohen was the mother of computer scientist and engineer Neil Siegel and actor Jack Black.
Cohen was born into a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Sarah Cohen (née Roisman) and Morris Bernard Cohen. By fifth grade, her classmates were paying her to do their math homework. She was often the only girl in her math classes, and decided she wanted to become a math teacher. By age 19, she was both studying engineering in college, and dancing ballet in the Metropolitan Opera Ballet company in New York.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Love_Cohen
Other References
Wikipedia article on women in science
No comments:
Post a Comment