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Happy Ada Lovelace Day!
Oct. 16th, 2012 10:05 amIt is time again for that most splendid of holidays, Ada Lovelace Day! Once a year, bloggers around the world gather to sing the praises of inspiring women in the STEM fields. And if you are a lady-identified person in science, technology, engineering, or math, I most cordially salute you.
I wasn't sure for a while whom or what to write about this year. And then I thought, can we just talk for a minute about how awesome Marie Skłodowska-Curie is? Because I know everyone has heard of her, and I know in many ways she's become not just the token lady scientist, but the token scientist, and the token chemist, and the token lots of other things. Which in some ways is a tribute to just how amazing she was, that she as a woman scientist managed to become to many people the face of chemistry, but in other ways it makes what we know of her just a rehearsal of the facts and not really a story.
( unabashed science fangirling under the cut )
I wasn't sure for a while whom or what to write about this year. And then I thought, can we just talk for a minute about how awesome Marie Skłodowska-Curie is? Because I know everyone has heard of her, and I know in many ways she's become not just the token lady scientist, but the token scientist, and the token chemist, and the token lots of other things. Which in some ways is a tribute to just how amazing she was, that she as a woman scientist managed to become to many people the face of chemistry, but in other ways it makes what we know of her just a rehearsal of the facts and not really a story.
( unabashed science fangirling under the cut )
