Welcome to DU!
The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards.
Join the community:
Create a free account
Support DU (and get rid of ads!):
Become a Star Member
Latest Breaking News
General Discussion
The DU Lounge
All Forums
Issue Forums
Culture Forums
Alliance Forums
Region Forums
Support Forums
Help & Search
26 replies
= new reply since forum marked as read
= new reply since forum marked as read
...that for every boy there was a girl.
This generation we are working to change that!
Thanks for the post!
Yes, I noticed the same thing.
I can't even think of names (well, I just got up, too 
)
Feminist History group should have lots of interesting additions
Hedy Lamarr: Scientist & Inventor of Spread-Spectrum Technology
http://theamericanshow.com/?p=1602
snip...
What do Caroline Herschel, Ada Lovelace, Mary Somerville, Mary Anning, Lise Meitner, Emmy Noether, Jocelyn Bell, Rosalind Franklin, Vera Rubin, and Hedy Lamarr (among others) have in common? They each made extraordinary scientific discoveries that went unrecognized because they were women, many of them having to endure male colleagues taking credit for their work, then winning Nobel prizes for it. Even Marie Curie — sadly the only woman scientist anyone can ever think of — was dismissed as little more than her husband’s assistant, her Nobel prizes contested by fellow scientists. On December 10, 1911, Marie Curie won her second Nobel, the only person ever to win two Nobels in two different sciences, yet a hundred years later, in 2011, no women were among the nine Nobel winners in the sciences, and women remain severely underrepresented in the STEM professions — science, technology, engineering, and math.
snip...
Hedy Lamarr has found a notable male ally in Pulitzer-prize winning science writer Richard Rhodes. His delightful, explosive book entitled Hedy’s Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, The Most Beautiful Woman in the World has brought significant, well-deserved recognition to this woman’s remarkable scientific achievements.
As some people do puzzles or watch birds, Hedy invented. As a child from a secular Jewish family in Austria in the 1920s, she absorbed her banker father’s love of knowing how things worked. At sixteen she dropped out of school to pursue a career in acting. Her success was immediate with a groundbreaking film called Ekstase. Rhodes maintains it was a strikingly modern exploration of female sexuality and a reversal of Victorian paternalism. “Had the film been released in the 1960s instead of the 1930s,” Rhodes speculates, “it might have been hailed as feminist.”
=====
I worked at an company that manufactured wireless equipment & the engineering conference room was named Hedy Lamarr.
When I was in 5th grade, our civics teacher mentioned that we'll never know how many inventions were actually made by women, because women couldn't file patents for a long time. She mentioned the irony of inventions that make household chores easier & how likely was it that all of them were created by men, who generally in that time period, didn't do those household chores. That was an eye-opening statement for my young mind.
Great sub-thread.
on edit: add photo!
Carolyn Porco (Ms. Saturn)*
[img]
[/img]
Ann Druyan (Cosmos, and Voyager)
[img]
[/img]
Jill Bolte Taylor (Brain Scientist)*
[img]
[/img]
Grace Hopper (Computer Scientist)
[img]
[/img]
*Look for these women on TED Talks. They are amazing.
Maria/Manya Sklodowska (Marie Curie)
The Sklodowski Children (left to right) Zosia, Hela, Manya (the youngest), Joseph, and Bronya
Maria (Mania) was born November 7, 1867 in Warsaw to Bronislawa and Wladyslaw Sklodowski. Her both parents were well educated. This was not long after November Uprising of 1963 in which Poles fought for the independence from the Russian tzar and Russian empire rule. Maria was the youngest from five children having one brother and three sisters. Maria's mother - Bronislawa, maiden name, Boguska, was of noble birth. Felix Boguski, her grandfather owned some land, but in order to provide for his family he had to administer the lands of richer aristocrats since their own land was not big enough. Bronislawa received a good education in a private school for women and then became a professor and later a director of the same school for girls.
Wladislaw Sklodowski, Maria's father, was also a part of minor noble family that originally owned land in a village Sklody, about a hundred km North from Warsaw. Wladislaw was the first intellectual in his family. He went to study in St. Petersburg and then came back to teach mathematics and physics in Warsaw.
Maria's mother showed the signs of tuberculosis, a deadly disease in these times, shortly after Mania was born. In order not to infect her children, her only love gesture towards Mania, her youngest daughter, was to run her fingers over Mania forehead. Mania never remembers being kissed by her mother, although this is sad, it helped to save her life. According to the doctor advice, Bronislawa was sent to Austrian Alps and later to Nice. Since Sklodowski's could not afford the nurse, Zosia, the oldest daughter accompanied her mother in these travels. In that time Wladyslaw, Maria's father took care of the younger children.
Wladislaw Sklodowski, Maria's father, was also a part of minor noble family that originally owned land in a village Sklody, about a hundred km North from Warsaw. Wladislaw was the first intellectual in his family. He went to study in St. Petersburg and then came back to teach mathematics and physics in Warsaw.
Maria's mother showed the signs of tuberculosis, a deadly disease in these times, shortly after Mania was born. In order not to infect her children, her only love gesture towards Mania, her youngest daughter, was to run her fingers over Mania forehead. Mania never remembers being kissed by her mother, although this is sad, it helped to save her life. According to the doctor advice, Bronislawa was sent to Austrian Alps and later to Nice. Since Sklodowski's could not afford the nurse, Zosia, the oldest daughter accompanied her mother in these travels. In that time Wladyslaw, Maria's father took care of the younger children.
http://www.polishsite.us/index.php/history-and-people/modern-history/476-maria-sklodowska-marie-curie-real-life.html
Irene Curie’s legacy is often overshadowed by that of her more famous mother, Marie. Like her mother, Irene married a fellow scientist, won the Nobel Prize, and bore a daughter, Helene, who would also reach scientific greatness. While her talent was nurtured by Marie, Irene Curie’s accomplishments and scientific genius allow her to stand alone among the greatest scientists of her time.
Irene was born in Paris on September 12, 1897, the older of two daughters born to Pierre and Marie Curie. She was educated at home by her mother, who won two Nobel prizes- the first for Physics in 1903 for the discovery of radium, which forever changed the fields of chemistry, physics, and medicine, and the second for Chemistry in 1911. A strong and brilliant woman, Marie Curie placed a great deal of importance on her children’s education, and she even formed a special “school” for Irene and the similarly-gifted children of other academics when the local schools proved too easy for Irene’s early and obvious talent in mathematics. Irene completed high school at the College Sevigne and began her undergraduate education in mathematics and physics at the Sorbonne. World War I broke out soon after Irene began her studies, casting its dark shadow over Europe, and Irene interrupted her education to bravely assist her mother setting up portable x ray machines and examining wounded soldiers in the field and military hospitals, efforts which earned her France’s Military Medal.
Irene was born in Paris on September 12, 1897, the older of two daughters born to Pierre and Marie Curie. She was educated at home by her mother, who won two Nobel prizes- the first for Physics in 1903 for the discovery of radium, which forever changed the fields of chemistry, physics, and medicine, and the second for Chemistry in 1911. A strong and brilliant woman, Marie Curie placed a great deal of importance on her children’s education, and she even formed a special “school” for Irene and the similarly-gifted children of other academics when the local schools proved too easy for Irene’s early and obvious talent in mathematics. Irene completed high school at the College Sevigne and began her undergraduate education in mathematics and physics at the Sorbonne. World War I broke out soon after Irene began her studies, casting its dark shadow over Europe, and Irene interrupted her education to bravely assist her mother setting up portable x ray machines and examining wounded soldiers in the field and military hospitals, efforts which earned her France’s Military Medal.
http://myhero.com/go/hero.asp?hero=Irene_Curie
Dr. Ride applied to the astronaut program after reading an ad in a newspaper. More than 8,000 men and women applied to the space program that year. Of the 35 individuals accepted, six were women. One was Sally Ride.
http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/whos_who_level2/ride.html
Hillary Clinton graduated in 1969 with a degree in political science.
Political science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government, and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state.[1] It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior. Political scientists "see themselves engaged in revealing the relationships underlying political events and conditions, and from these revelations they attempt to construct general principles about the way the world of politics works."[2] Political science intersects with other fields; including anthropology, public policy, national politics, economics, international relations, comparative politics, psychology, sociology, history, law, and political theory. Although it was codified in the 19th century, when all the social sciences were established, political science has ancient roots; indeed, it originated almost 2,500 years ago with the works of Plato and Aristotle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_science
Political science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government, and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state.[1] It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior. Political scientists "see themselves engaged in revealing the relationships underlying political events and conditions, and from these revelations they attempt to construct general principles about the way the world of politics works."[2] Political science intersects with other fields; including anthropology, public policy, national politics, economics, international relations, comparative politics, psychology, sociology, history, law, and political theory. Although it was codified in the 19th century, when all the social sciences were established, political science has ancient roots; indeed, it originated almost 2,500 years ago with the works of Plato and Aristotle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_science
Rachel Louise Carson (May 27, 1907 – April 14, 1964) was an American marine biologist whose book Silent Spring and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement.
Carson began her career as a biologist in the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, and became a full-time nature writer in the 1950s. Her widely praised 1951 bestseller The Sea Around Us won her a U.S. National Book Award, recognition as a gifted writer, and financial security. Her next book, The Edge of the Sea, and the reissued version of her first book, Under the Sea Wind, were also bestsellers. That so-called sea trilogy explores the whole of ocean life from the shores to the surface to the depths.
Late in the 1950s Carson turned her attention to environmental problems she believed were caused by synthetic pesticides. The result was Silent Spring (1962), which brought environmental concerns to an unprecedented share of the American people. It spurred a reversal in national pesticide policy, which led to a nationwide ban on DDT and other pesticides, and it inspired a grassroots environmental movement that led to the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Carson was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Jimmy Carter.
from her wiki page...
Anyway, thanks for coming to my defense, if that's what you mean.
I do think that if person A) has a problem with person B), and then with a little digging it becomes pretty damn obvious that person A) has had problems with persons C-Z as well as all the alphanumeric characters on the keyboard, it may be time to consider that maybe person B) wasn't really the issue.
But I digress, and that's more H/M territory anyway. Peace.
Maya Scholar and Archeologist
Major contributor in the decipherment of ancient Maya text.
German mathematician.
