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Ernest Everett Just: a snapshot biography.

Posted on December 3, 2022 by Historical Snapshots

Ernest Everett Just Biography The years of his life were often experienced with unkind treatment, as he faced much discrimination for being black. But through t...

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Chemist Alice Augusta Ball

Posted on March 2, 2022 by Historical Snapshots

Alice Augusta Ball was a chemist who developed a treatment for leprosy after becoming the first woman and African-American to graduate with a master’s deg...

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Irène Joliot-Curie: a snapshot biography

Posted on December 1, 2021 by Historical Snapshots

Her parents were the first married couple to win a Nobel Prize. She and her husband were the second. Irène Joliot-Curie was born in Paris in 1897 to Marie and P...

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A snapshot biography of Mary Watson Whitney

Posted on March 17, 2021 by Historical Snapshots

“A snapshot biography of Mary Watson Whitney” Mary Watson Whitney was brilliant, and she was kind. In college, classmates called her “Pallas A...

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Marie Skłodowska Curie: a snapshot biography

Posted on February 16, 2021 by Historical Snapshots

“We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a p...

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Botanist Alice Eastwood: a snapshot biography

Posted on January 20, 2021 by Historical Snapshots

Biography Born in Toronto, Canada in 1859, Alice Eastwood experienced loss and much struggle in her youth, beginning with the passing of her mother when Alice w...

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Astronomer Beatrice Tinsley – a snapshot biography.

Posted on December 2, 2020 by Historical Snapshots

Beatrice Tinsley loved music, she loved math, she enjoyed being in the outdoors and she was completely unafraid to speak her mind, blithe to authority. As a chi...

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A snapshot biography of geologist Florence Bascom

Posted on November 18, 2020 by Historical Snapshots

Florence Bascom loved being out, working in the outdoors. “This is the life, to plunge into the welcome isolation of the field,” in her words.  Known as the ...

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Astronomer Annie Jump Cannon

Posted on October 2, 2020 by Historical Snapshots

Biography It was her mother who nurtured a love in young Annie Jump Cannon for astronomy. The two would sit in the attic of the family home and gaze and identif...

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Williamina Fleming – A Snapshot Biography

Posted on July 7, 2020 by Historical Snapshots

In the late 1870s, Williamina Fleming was in her early 20s and a recent U.S. immigrant from Scotland. She had come married with a child, but her husband abandon...

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