Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Hodgkin
Read about Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin here, on Wikipedia, and in her biography. Here you can read a little detail about the exclusion of women in research discussions at the time.

(Image: British postage stamp honoring Hodgkin)

For those interested in gender bias in science journalism, here's a headline from when she won the Nobel Prize, and another, plus a newer checklist to help science journalists think clearly about whether their writing rehashes cliches about women in science at the expense of explaining the science and the scientist's achievements.