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Month: June 2022

Women in STEM: Chien-Shiung Wu

26th June 202210th January 2023 / historicallywoman / 2 Comments

Before we get into the main article, I must admit that I don’t understand physics and I definitely skipped over most of the technical, sciency stuff when I was researching. Sorry. What I did understand, however, was that Chien-Shiung Wu was a genius who contributed enormously to our knowledge of physics, and that she truly … Continue reading Women in STEM: Chien-Shiung Wu

Book Review – Ariadne by Jennifer Saint

23rd June 202210th January 2023 / historicallywoman / 1 Comment

Jennifer Saint's retelling of the myth of Ariadne is powerful and lyrical - well worth picking up.

Women in STEM: Trota of Salerno

12th June 202210th January 2023 / historicallywoman / 2 Comments

In New York, there stands a statue of J. Marion Sims, a man known as the ‘father of gynaecology’. Asks historian Monica H. Green — ‘why the field of women’s medicine has a father but no mother’. Well, perhaps there was one - enter Trota of Salerno.

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