New #Wikipedia article on H. Catherine W. Skinner for the #WikiWomeninRed project ✅

Skinner was a geologist and mineralogist who had many firsts: first woman president of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, first woman to receive the distinguished public service award from the Mineralogical Society of America, first woman to complete a term as residential college head at Yale (during a very turbulent period, no less).

She was a pioneer in medical geology, publishing a book about the health risks of asbestos and researching the intersections of crystallography, dentistry, and orthopedics. Skinner recorded an oral history about her experience as a woman scientist at Yale during the early days of coeducation, which is fully available online and very interesting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._Catherine_W._Skinner

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Beyond the Hallowed Sky

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Sisters in Science by Olivia Campbell, 2024

The extraordinary true story of four women pioneers in physics during World War II and their daring escape out of Nazi Germany.

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Scientist Eunice Newton Foote was the first to posit a connection between atmospheric gases & rising temperatures. Yet she got no credit for this & was assigned to a mere footnote in history.
G.V. Pavan Kumar's piece on the forgotten pioneer in climate change research

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https://www.theindiaforum.in/history/forgotten-pioneer-climate-change-research

"Rose with Metamorphosis of Leaf Roller and a Glued Beetle Larva," Maria Sibylla Merion, after 1679.

Merian (1647-1717) was a German entomologist, naturalist, and scientific illustrator. She was one of the first European naturalists to document insect life from direct observation. The daughter of a Swiss engraver and publisher, she collected insects as a child and published her first collection of illustrations in 1675. She published a two-volume work on caterpillars, from which this image is taken. And that's an actual dried beetle larva glued to the main flower; she did that with a number of her illustrations but most have fallen off long ago.

She traveled to South American and observed insect life there, also publishing her findings to great acclaim.

Her direct observations of the metamorphic process were an enormous influence on the scientific world; David Attenborough calls her one of the most significant contributors to the field of entomology.

From the Städel Museum, Frankfurt.

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