4/8/2015 0 Comments Lise Meitner: The (Almost) Forgotten Physicist Who Helped Discover Nuclear Fission
Meitner, circa 1905 in Vienna via Wikimedia Commons
By Jessica Li
Lise Meitner collaborated with Otto Hahn in discovering nuclear fission, but Hahn’s name is the one associated most with the discovery, even nowadays, because he, not Meitner, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for it. Meitner's role in the instrumental discovery is not recognized nearly enough, even today.
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By Jessica Li
The Brooklyn Bridge owes its existence to Emily Roebling. While many would name John Roebling or Washington Roebling as the creator of the bridge, Emily Roebling was the actual driving force behind most of the operation.
by Heather Atkinson
Wishing a happy birthday to Gladys Rowena Henry Dick, part of our series on women who were nominated for Nobel Prizes in science but never won. Nominated for her work on the Scarlet Fever Vaccine in 1925 b. December 18, 1881 d. August 21, 1963 In the early twentieth century, North America and Europe were plagued with the bacterial peril scarlet fever, which primarily targeted children and caused many such complications as skin infections, kidney disease, rheumatic fever and even resulted in mortality rates reaching up to an alarming 25 percent. After the loss of her son to scarlet fever, Edith Rockefeller McCormick and her husband established the John R. McCormick Memorial Institute for Infectious Diseases in Chicago, which institution Gladys Henry Dick joined in 1914 and remained until her retirement in 1953, and where much of her research was completed, leading her to develop the skin test and vaccine that would be universally utilized to battle scarlet fever. Meet Maud Slye, the first in our series on women who were nominated for the Nobel Prize but never won.
Cancer pathologist b. February 8, 1869 d. September 7, 1954 Year(s) nominated: 1923 by Albert Soiland Achievements:
When Maud Slye began her work on the pathology of cancer, very few scientists believed that cancer was a genetic disease. Most experts thought that human cancers were either caused by viruses-like The Rous Sarcoma Virus, which had recently been implicated as the cause behind tumors in chickens, or a side-effect of rapid industrialization. 9/12/2013 0 Comments Happy Birthday Irene Joliot-Curie!9/1/2013 0 Comments Scientista September Birthdays
Happy Birthday, September babies! Each month, Scientista highlights the birthdays of notable Scientistas from throughout history in an effort to both commemorate them and bring them more visibility. This month, we present to you six brilliant women in STEM who were all born in September. Browse through the women to learn more about them!
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