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February 13 Max Perutz publishes the structure of hemoglobin. [4]John Kendrew publishes the structure of myoglobin. [5]March 5 – British marine biologist Sir Alister Hardy announces his aquatic ape hypothesis, theorising that swimming and diving for food exerted a strong evolutionary effect partly responsible for the divergence in the common descent of humans and other great apes.
The hot comb was an invention developed in France as a way for women with coarse curly hair to achieve a fine straight look traditionally modeled by historical Egyptian women. [44] However, it was Annie Malone who first patented this tool, while her protégé and former worker, Madam C. J. Walker, widened the teeth. [45]
2015: The International Day of Women and Girls in Science is an annual observance adopted by the United Nations General Assembly to promote the full and equal access and participation of women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields; [382] the United Nations General Assembly passed resolution 70/212 on 22 December 2015 ...
Girls Coming to Tech!: A History of American Engineering Education for Women (MIT Press, 2014) Joyce Currie Little, "The Role of Women in the History of Computing." Proceedings, Women and Technology: Historical, Societal, and Professional Perspectives. IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society, New Brunswick, NJ, July 1999, 202–05.
Both women and men are capable of performing extraordinary feats, but there are some things the females of our species do better. Here are 7 of them, according to science. Number 7. Seeing colors ...
Building upon prior research from two decades of feminist STS literature, studies adopted principles based on updated frameworks at the turn of the millennium, such as Ellen van Oost's research into how gender becomes configured into electric shavers, [11] Ruth Schwartz Cowan's study on technological innovation increasing women's labor, [12] and Jennifer R. Fishman's exploration of ...
IN FOCUS: When Daisy Boulton stumbled across ‘A Woman on the Edge of Time’, a son’s book exploring the life and suicide of his mother, she felt an overwhelming connection. Helen Coffey talks ...
Amelia Earhart's Daughters: the Wild and Glorious Story of American Women Aviators from World War II to the Dawn of the Space Age, by Leslie Haynsworth and David Toomey; Right Stuff, Wrong Sex: America's First Women in Space Program by Margaret A. Weitekamp; The Mercury 13: The True Story of Thirteen Women and the Dream of Space Flight by ...