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  • 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

  • Modern Astronomers

    …an excellent science communicator, researcher, andleader.  She earned her B.S . from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Ph.D. from the University of Hawaii in the 1980s. At NASA she led the imaging team of the Voyager 2’s encounter with Neptune and became known for her science communication for it.  She returned to MIT as a scientist for nearly a decade. Among her honors, she has received Vladimir Karpetoff Award , Klumpke-Roberts Award,…

    Authored by on January 19, 2012

  • Happy belated birthday, Mary Anning!

    Mary Anning and a small, non-fossilized dog. (Source) [Today, we’re featuring a post by Mike Rendell, author and keeper of Georgian Gentleman, a blog chronicling aspects of 18th century life. Mike spent 30 years as a lawyer–poor fellow–before he retired to time travel in his mind back to the 18th century, where he has set up mental shop permanently. By what he calls a “curious stroke of luck,” he has all of the 18th century papers o…

    Authored by on May 25, 2012

  • The Women in ‘Modern Men of Science’

    . Meitner, whom we’ve written about before at Double X Science, received her doctorate in physics at the University of Vienna in 1906. She began work at the University of Berlin, studying with Max Planck and beginning a 30-year collaboration with Otto Hahn. Dr. Meitner is known at “the mother of the atomic bomb,” although her true discovery is the physical theory of nuclear fission, built upon many experiments and published in 1939. Unfortu…

    Authored by on April 11, 2013

  • 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

  • Childbirth and C-sections in pre-modern times

    …the skeletons is severely lacking: We found the skeletal remains of a girl (sic) aged about 14 at death in an undisturbed family burial tomb in Beit Shemesh, near Jerusalem.  Three bronze coins found in the tomb dating to AD 315-392 indicate that the tomb was in use during the fourth century AD.  We found the skeletal remains of a full-term (40-week) fetus in the pelvic area of the girl, who was lying on her back in an extended position, apparen…

    Authored by on July 2, 2012

  • DXS Op-Ed: How birth control can save the world

    …financial commitment to the women (and by association, men) who live in our nation. To drive this point even further, here is another excerpt from the People and the Planet Report (my favorite bit, found in Box 2.5 on page 33): Women bear the main physical burden of reproduction: pregnancy, breastfeeding and childcare. They also bear the main responsibility for contraception as most methods are designed for their use. Men, it may be argued,…

    Authored by on May 2, 2012

  • Work-Life Balance for Whom?

    …regard to gender within Higher Education. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1999, and is chair of their Education Committee. She was awarded the L’Oreal/UNESCO For Women in Science Laureate for Europe in 2009, and appointed a Dame Commander of the British Empire for services to Physics in 2010. She is mother to 2 adult children.  For more information, you can follow Athene Donald on Twitter. (Source) Can women ‘hav…

    Authored by on August 8, 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

  • Double Xpression: Karyn Traphagen, co-founder of ScienceOnline

    …e the one of two females on our Math League squad and to have access to advanced science courses and labs in high school. It seems I always took a circuitous route though. I helped change the rules so that I could graduate in 3 years. I was very fortunate to have lots of opportunities after graduation (including being recruited for the first female class at West Point). But then, I took on other responsibilities and went back to school later to f…

    Authored by on July 9, 2012

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