Female Scientists You Probably Never Heard Of

Nottingham – Although most of us will have heard of pioneering scientists such as Newton, Darwin, or Einstein, far fewer are familiar with astronomer Jocelyn Bell Burnell, X-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin, or Columbia University physicist Chien-Shiung Wu, all of whose groundbreaking discoveries resulted in Nobel Prizes for their male co-workers. Over the last two centuries, as modern scien...