Comments on: Ada Lovelace Day http://clararaubertas.net/blog/ada-lovelace-day/ Miscellaneous thoughts from a Cantabridgian web developer. Fri, 18 May 2012 19:04:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Stemming.org : the community for women and girls in STEM http://clararaubertas.net/blog/ada-lovelace-day/#comment-1380 Stemming.org : the community for women and girls in STEM Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:55:16 +0000 http://clararaubertas.net/blog/?p=101#comment-1380 <strong>Stemming wants to feature YOU for Ada Lovelace Day!...</strong> Ada Lovelace Day is coming up next month ... Stemming wants to feature YOU for Ada Lovelace Day!…

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]]> By: Mom http://clararaubertas.net/blog/ada-lovelace-day/#comment-571 Mom Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:48:08 +0000 http://clararaubertas.net/blog/?p=101#comment-571 I must be becoming more aware because the other day I noticed that the rotating picture cube of inventors that a student brought me from England a few years ago has ENTIRELY pictures of white male inventors, with one questionable exception: Marie Curie's picture was shown as a small insert next to a larger picture of her husband whose name I don't even remember. Do I still want this cube??? I must be becoming more aware because the other day I noticed that the rotating picture cube of inventors that a student brought me from England a few years ago has ENTIRELY pictures of white male inventors, with one questionable exception: Marie Curie’s picture was shown as a small insert next to a larger picture of her husband whose name I don’t even remember. Do I still want this cube???

]]> By: Asher http://clararaubertas.net/blog/ada-lovelace-day/#comment-565 Asher Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:39:48 +0000 http://clararaubertas.net/blog/?p=101#comment-565 My favorite is the estimable <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Goeppert-Mayer" rel="nofollow">Maria Goeppert-Mayer</a>, who is the only other woman to win the Nobel in physics, aside from Marie Curie. She was unable to get a job at our fine alma mater because her husband was also a physicist, and obviously he should have a job. But in spite of that, she formed the nuclear shell model theory, which hugely advanced the field and is influential today. My favorite is the estimable Maria Goeppert-Mayer, who is the only other woman to win the Nobel in physics, aside from Marie Curie. She was unable to get a job at our fine alma mater because her husband was also a physicist, and obviously he should have a job. But in spite of that, she formed the nuclear shell model theory, which hugely advanced the field and is influential today.

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