Posts tagged ‘physics’

Science fairs, sexism, academics, empathy, heroines, Mozilla, Python, Rails, more, and a few goodbyes.

This week’s Wednesday Geek Women are Moran Paldi, game designer; Leena van Deventer, gaming writing; and Catriona Wimberley, medical physics student.

This week’s Wednesday Geek Woman is Mahananda Dasgupta, award winning professor of physics at the Australian National University, and the first woman to hold tenure at her research school.

This week’s Wednesday Geek Woman is Branca Edmée Marques, sometime student of Marie Curie.

Women in genre fiction, a non-physicist at CERN, open journal access as a feminist issue, and more!

This is a guest post by Maya. This entry originally appeared at the Project Exploration blog. Sally Ride was born in 1951 in Los Angeles, California. As a young woman, her interests included science and ...

The Wednesday Geek Woman series is mostly on hiatus. Remaining WGW posts are appearing sporadically. This is a guest post by Shauna, a psychologist, programmer, writer and blogger. Lise Meitner was born into an affluent ...