Happy birthday Madame Curie 💜
You paved the way for me
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@jackielovescompchem32 I'm still really amused about the editorial in Nature I read for a class arguing that they needed to use the Americanism Scientist instead of Man-of-Science SPECIFICALLY because it didn't include Marie Curie and she needed to be included as the best scientist in the world
@Canageek @jackielovescompchem32 Yes, and: "Scientist" as a term was coined to describe a woman: Mary Somerville, who studied physics, astronomy, and many other things
@belehaa @jackielovescompchem32 What I found hilarious was the main objection to the term was it was an Americanism and the brits didn't want to sound American.
The situation in physics for women is better than it was at the first solvay conference. There are more female physicists now than there ever were before. I'm happy to number myself among them :3