Scientific Olympus
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Sandra Faber
Video por el Día Internacional de la Mujer y la Niña en la Ciencia para el proyecto Recordando a Lise Meitner.
Johannes D. van der Waals
Lord Kelvin
” ‘Vector’ is a useless survival, or offshoot from quaternions, and has never been of the slightest use to any creature.”
“X-rays will prove to be a hoax.”
“Radio has no future.”
“Wireless [telegraphy] is all very well but I’d rather send a message by a boy on a pony!”
William Thomson, a.k.a. Lord Kelvin, a visionary.
Robert Hooke
Ἀρχιμήδης
Archimedes of Syracusa, before being killed by a roman soldier during the siege of its city.
Lise Meitner
Lise Meitner was one of the discoverers of the nuclear fission.
Hypatia of Alexandria, Martyr of Science
Vera Cooper Rubin
1) There is no problem in science that can be solved by a man that cannot be solved by a woman.
2) Worldwide, half of all brains are in women.
3) We all need permission to do science, but, for reasons that are deeply ingrained in history, this permission is more often given to men than to women.”
The irreversible fate of Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot
Lonesome Electric Ostrich 