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On the other hand, why are so many crystallographers women? Dorothy Hodgkin, Olga Kennard, Eleanor Dodson, Kathleen Lonsdale, it's easy to come up with all thes
by HarryHirsch 10y ago
On the other hand, why are so many crystallographers women? Dorothy Hodgkin, Olga Kennard, Eleanor Dodson, Kathleen Lonsdale, it's easy to come up with all these and many more, they are among the greats.
You'd think it's due to J D Bernal. He was a pioneer of x-ray crystallography and was involved with many women, all of whom he treated with respect. That set the tone in the field.
- timthorn 10y agoI know that you said many more, but such a list surely isn't complete without Rosalind Franklin?
- HarryHirsch 10y agoDefinitively. And Jane Richardson. How we think about protein structure is due to her artwork.
- finid 10y agoWomen also are majority in the biological sciences.
- HarryHirsch 10y agoYeah. I find that it's Computer Science in America that is the exception.
- IslaDeEncanta 10y agoAll engineering disciplines are the same way.