When you got dressed this morning, did you put on something cotton that you didn’t have to iron and it was still presentable? That modern convenience is thanks to chemistry and the work of Dr. Ruth Benerito.
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For World Water Day, we’re learning about a woman who helped use chemistry to bring clean water to the world.
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Margaret Oakley Dayhoff has been called the “mother and father of bioinformatics” as she was a pioneer of applying mathematics and computational methods to biochemistry.
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Michele Buchanan is hoping to change the world through her research into energy, and her work at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
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Many of the films honored with Oscars throughout the years owe the beauty of their moving images to research scientist Katharine Burr Blodgett.
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Chemist Ida Tacke Noddack was the first woman in Germany to hold a professional position as a chemist, and helped discover the element rhenium.
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February 14 is Valentine’s Day: a day associated with tending the heart. Today, we’ll look at a woman who has studied many factors impacting the human heart: Marie Maynard Daly.
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Four new elements are joining the periodic table. Three of them thanks to a team led by Dawn Shaughnessy.
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Lilli Hornig was a member of the Manhattan Project, and witnessed the first atomic bomb tests.
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Restrictions of her time kept Marie-Anne Lavoisier from becoming a chemist herself, but she was integral to her husband’s work and the two changed chemistry forever.
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