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  • Modern Astronomers

    …” Award and the James Craig Watson Award from the National Academy of Sciences. She continues to provide public education in science through written, audio, and video media. In 1995, the majestic spiral galaxy  NGC 4414  was imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope as part of the HST Key Project on the Extragalactic Distance Scale. An international team of astronomers, led by Dr. Wendy Freedman of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institut…

    Authored by on January 19, 2012

  • Modern Chemists

    f analytical chemistry. U.S. Ramsey Fellow is no longer offered. Alfred P. Sloan Fellow is awarded to scientists and scholars of outstanding promise. Outstanding Women in the State of Maryland awards women under the age of 40 for their achievements already made in an early career.  The American Cyanamid Faculty Award   The Henry Hill Award recognizes distinguished service to professionalism.  The Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching J…

    Authored by on April 23, 2012

  • The Women in ‘Modern Men of Science’

    In 1966, of 426 scientists highlighted, 7 were women. by Adrienne M. Roehrich While working on the Notable Women in Science series, I was referred at one point back to the McGraw-Hill Modern Men of Science collection from the 1960s. Of the 426 scientists highlighted in 1966 among the “modern men,” seven were women. By then, 11 women had earned the Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy  (and even with an award named after her, she isn’…

    Authored by on April 11, 2013

  • Notable Women in Science: Historical Astronomers

    s for a woman in math was very difficult, and she longed for something more. She married a Russian astronomer, Alexander Vyssotsky, the same year she finished the requirements for her Ph.D. The degree was awarded when she was 35. She relocated to the University of Virginia to follow her husband’s career. Dr. Vyssotsky was hired as an instructor while her husband became an assistant professor. As a team, the Vyssotskys discovered dwarf stars using…

    Authored by on December 28, 2012

  • Historical Physicists

    Featured today are 10 more women who broke boundaries by their presence in physics. They lived from 1711 to 2000. While I again limited information to one paragraph, I tried to highlight how they got their start, what universities, family members, and scientists were supportive of them. For these women, without the support of fathers, mothers, husbands, and mentors (all male with one exception) their life in science would not have happened. Whil…

    Authored by on February 21, 2012

  • Crystallographers of merit

    …B.A. with honors from Somerville College at Oxford University in 1931, then went onto a research fellowship there. She earned her D.Phil. from Cambridge University in 1936, followed by marrying Thomas Hodgkin in 1937. She had 3 children within the next 10 years. Dr. Hodgkin did research using x-ray crystallography to study and clarify large biomolecules and pioneered the use of computers in crystallography. In 1964, she received the Nobel Prize i…

    Authored by on March 7, 2013

  • A Few Modern Physicists

    …l and mechanical acumen served her well as a group leader at the Fermilab. Dr. Edwards is a team player and insists upon acknowledging the contributions of her colleagues in her and Fermilab’s success. Vandana Shiva in 2008. [Edited, 11/26/12, 14:43 ET]: Vandana Shiva was trained in physics and the philosophy of science and now works as an environmentalist, achieving considerable global prominence. She  was born in 1952 and, according t…

    Authored by on November 26, 2012

  • Biology Explainer: The big 4 building blocks of life–carbohydrates, fats, proteins, and nucleic acids

    …ll selection of different materials: bricks, mortar, iron, glass, and wood. Arranged in different ways, these few materials can yield a huge variety of structures. We encountered functional groups and the SPHONC in Chapter 3. These components form the four categories of molecules of life. These Big Four biological molecules are carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids. They can have many roles, from giving an organism structure to be…

    Authored by on June 8, 2012

  • There will never be another Curie…and that’s a good thing

    For your serious Sunday consideration, from Double X Science physics editor, Matthew Francis. The above courtesy of xkcd, a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. If you had to name the top scientists of the 20th century, any reasonable list must include Polish-French scientist Marie Sklodowska Curie. She won the Nobel Prize twice, a feat only matched by three others: once in physics (in 1903) for her work in radioactivity,…

    Authored by on November 27, 2011

  • Historical Chemists

    ld (1913-1991) was a prolific and distinguished scientist. She earned her B.S. and Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley. Vold balanced academic and industrial chemist careers spanning over five decades. At the age of 45, she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis but continued her dual chemistry careers despite being confined to a wheelchair. She was the LA Times Woman of the Year and received the Garvan Medal. O ne month before her death…

    Authored by on January 10, 2012

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