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Showing Original Post only (View all)These women have changed the world with science...Too bad a man was given all the credit... [View all]
Rosalind Franklin might be the most famous example of a woman scientist getting screwed over by her male colleagues, but shes far from the only one.
Yes, misogyny was very much just a fact of society during the careers of these women, but it isnt too late to pay homage to them and correct the publics perception on who really made these amazing contributions to science.
Found on the I love fucking science Facebook page...
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These women have changed the world with science...Too bad a man was given all the credit... [View all]
Playinghardball
Sep 2013
OP
silly me, thought women accomplished nothing, until last couple years see all the kick ass women
seabeyond
Sep 2013
#1
It's why I am pissed off at the MRA types who say that if there were no men, we wouldn't even have
Nay
Sep 2013
#28
BTW element #109 was named 'Meitnerium' after her, perhaps in the end a more significant
PoliticAverse
Sep 2013
#27
Well, Rosalind Franklin couldn't win the Nobel because she died before it was awarded.
longship
Sep 2013
#12
back in the 60s a woman, Tikvah Alper, hypothesized the malfolded proteins
magical thyme
Sep 2013
#22
hey, chill. I can't find my paper right now, but may find it tomorrow to link to sourcing
magical thyme
Sep 2013
#33