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Started by Dave, March 04, 2018, 09:38:36 AM

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Quote from: xSilverPhinx on October 03, 2018, 02:29:32 PM
That makes me both so happy and sad at the same time. Why did it take another 55 years for a woman to get the recognition?

Imagine just how many Jocelyn Bells there are out there. :(
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An amazing woman with an amazing career in earth science who now lives in a mud hut near the Masaii Mara as the chief's wife, erm, by accident.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0000t5z
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There are legions more brilliant women who deserve recognition for their contributions to science, sociology, and judicial exceptionalism.

Isolated example: Refer to an article in February Scientific American.  Doris Y Tsao is a professor of biology at California Institute of Technology (Cal Tech).  Her research into brain regions that process faces reveal deep insights into the neural mechanisms of vision. It appears that there is an isolated region of the brain that is exclusively in charge of recognizing faces. The article uses some big words like inferotemporel cortex and anterior medial patch any other words that Silver will understand . Fascinating stuff by a woman who is a leading edge scientist.


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Really good article in this month's Smithsonian magazine.  Mary Sears was a extraordinarily bright young woman who had an interest in Marine biology. This was in the late 1930s  She had credentials that she had earned despite the opposition from the male world in those days.  She managed to get a menial job, menial despite her impressive credentials, at Woods Hole Oceagraphic Institute (WHOI). 

She had to endure the second class status that was assigned to women of that era. She persevered and was finally recognized as an extraordinarily talented Marine biologist and oceanographer. When the WW2 broke out, she tried to enlist in the navy but was denied.  Eventually she was given permission to enlist.  She soon became recognized as an important tactician as applied to naval warfare. She could figure out the best weather and sea conditions for when and where to do naval attacks on Pacific Islands held by the Japanese.

Weather and current and tides were critical elements in the planning of those attacks. Ms Sears had it right almost every time. She helped perfect the technology that could utilize the ocean thermoclines to beat the enemy Sonar detection of US submarines. She became so much trusted that she was a serious participant in the planning of the Normandy invasion.

But only a few people, other than high ranking naval officers, even knew that a woman named Sears existed, or that her brilliance and dedication mattered. It mattered big time in the conduct of the war. Admiral Nimitz, when meeting Mary's sister said: Someday the country will learn how much it owes to Mary Sears. Finally it did notice her contribution.  On October19 of the year 2000, notables christened the new Oceaographic research ship, The USS Mary Sears.


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Here is another woman, Jade, who is not only charming but also good at what she does.  If you have any real interest in sciences that you have yet to learn, then Up And Atom is one place to start.