Sheril KirshenbaumFeb 11, 2023

Physicist John Tyndall is often credited w discovering the greenhouse effect, which he wrote about in 1859.

But female scientist Eunice Foote published a paper - 3yrs earlier - demonstrating how atmospheric water vapor & CO2 affected solar heating. She theorized that heat trapping gases in Earth’s atmosphere warm its #climate.

Tyndall was widely read. And Foote, being a woman, wasn't even permitted to present her own work.
https://www.climate.gov/news-features/features/happy-200th-birthday-eunice-foote-hidden-climate-science-pioneer #history #science #ClimateChange #HistoryRemix

Happy 200th birthday to Eunice Foote, hidden climate science pioneer

American Eunice Foote was an amateur scientist and women's rights pioneer from the mid-1800s whose experiments foreshadowed the discovery of Earth's greenhouse effect. 

NOAA Climate.gov
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@Sheril I'm convinced that this is the case in every important event/deed/discovery. We need to find and lift up all the names, in addition to Eunice Foote:

Virginia Hall, WWII spy
Rosalind Franklin, DNA
Dorothy Horstmann, polio vaccine
Hedy Lamarr, wireless communications (radio guidance)
Alice Ball, leprosy cure
Vera Rubin, discoverer of Dark Matter
Dr. Grace Murray Hopper, first computer programming language
Jocelyn Bell Burnell, discoverer of Pulsars (neuron stars)
Lise Meitner, nuclear fission
Dr. Chieng-Shiung Wu, Manhattan project, overthrew a previously accepted law of physics
Anna Arnold Hedgeman, organized March on Washington
Katherine Johnson, guidance and navigation calculations for NASA
Nettie Stevens, discoverer of gene-determined biological sex

Feb 11, 2023 at 3:21pmWeb
Show threadhramrachFeb 11, 2023
@kimlockhartga Neuron stars 🙃