Tuesday, April 18, 2017
Woman in Science
Women weren't always accepted in the fields of Science and Technology. But the woman that I personally think is the most important and iconic in Science and Technology is Grace Murray Hopper. She is most well known and credited for being one of the programmers of the Mark I computer. She also invented the first compiler for a computer programming language. If we didn't have the brilliant mind of Grace Murray Hopper, we might not have the luxury of the personal computer or even the military technology that we use today.
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Women also contributed to the proto-science of alchemy in the first or second centuries. During the Middle Ages, convents were an important place of education for women, and some of these communities provided opportunities for women to contribute to scholarly research. The first known woman to attend a university in a scientific field of studies was Laura Bassi, an eighteenth century Italian scientist. During the nineteenth century, women were excluded from more formal type of scientific education, but they began to be admitted into learned societies. In the nineteenth century, the rise of the women's college provided jobs for women scientists, and opportunities for education. This led Marie Curie to become the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize in 1903, and then went on to become a double Nobel Prize recipient in 1911. Both Nobel Prize awards were for her work on radiation. Overall, seventeen women have been awarded the Nobel Prize in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine.
ReplyDeleteWomen went through hard times, it was not easy living in the earlier ages up until now where we see equality really flourish. If it wasn't for women like Marie Curie, women might still not be as equal as we see them today!
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