Meet Antonia Maury, astronomy's renegade who changed the way we classify stars
Read now →Maury was part of a group of brilliant women known as the "Harvard Computers"
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Meet Émilie du Châtelet, the French socialite who helped lay the foundations of modern physics
Read now →She improved on Newton's work and outclassed Voltaire
Maria Goeppert Mayer discovered the magic numbers at the center of atoms
Read now →She didn't have a paid professorship until three years before her Nobel prize
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Meet Hypatia, the ancient mathematician who helped preserve seminal texts
Read now →Her dramatic death often overshadows her epic life, but it shouldn't
Four facts about Jane Goodall, primatologist, anthropologist, and activist
Read now →Her unorthodox research showed us that chimpanzees are far more human than we thought
Remembering Ursula K. Le Guin, an inspiration to scientists
Read now →Le Guin was a testament to how fiction reveals truth, empathy, and the beauty of knowledge
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Five facts about Mary Putnam Jacobi, medical pioneer and suffragette
Read now →She was a true renaissance woman
Meet the first Black woman to earn a PhD in chemistry
Read now →Marie Maynard Daly worked at a time when our understanding of DNA was changing in big ways
